The Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama is significantly more popular among US female voters than Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, according to a poll conducted for Lifetime Network and hundreds of women organizations. The po
The president and prime minister of Mauritania have been taken into custody by soldiers in an apparent military coup.
The funeral of Russian dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn began Wednesday with a church service at Moscow's historic Donskoy Monastery. Dozens of people crowded in the church to say farewell to the author, who lay in an open coffin with a wooden cro
Thousands of Japanese people, foreign guests and activists marked Wednesday in the city of Hiroshima the 63rd anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack. At a memorial ceremony held in the city's peace park, people observed one minute of silence at
Thousands of sports fans have been cheated by fake "Olympic" Internet sites that have sold them counterfeit admission tickets to the Olympic events in Beijing. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that they were undertaking strong meas
All day Tuesday, at the new building of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia and the entire world are bidding farewell to one of the greatest Russian writers and humanitarians - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Despite the heavy rain in Moscow, people holding
The parents of missing UK girl Madeleine McCann drawn strength from newly-released police files of the investigation into their daughter's disappearance because they show no evidence the girl is dead, telegraph.co.
Two men armed with knives and explosives ambushed a military police unit in China's majority Muslim northwest, killing 16 officers and wounding 16 others before being arrested, state media said. The local police said that one of the attackers drove a tru
At least 11 climbers died on K2, the world's second-highest mountain, after an avalanche struck them at a height of about 8,200 meters. The Pakistani military began a rescue operation early on Monday and managed to save two Dutch climbers after the trage
At least 133 people, mostly women and children, were crushed to death in a stampede at a temple in northern India as panicked worshippers tried to flee a crowded mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India. The stampede, which occurred on the second day o
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian novelist and historian whose writings exposed the brutality of Stalin's murderous labour camps, died at the age of 89 in Moscow.
Russian novelist and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose works described the horrors of Stalin's Soviet labor camps died at the age of 89, CNN reported Monday. His son, Stepan Solzhenitsyn, said his father passed away after a heart failure late on Su
The Olympic Flame arrived Sunday in China's province of Sichuan, which was one of the most destroyed by the powerful earthquake on May 12, Darik News reported. The Olympic Torch had been welcomed at a special ceremony in Guangan, which began with a minut
Israel has allowed more than 180 members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, fleeing after deadly clashes, to enter its territory from the Gaza Strip. An Israeli army spokesman, cited by BBC, said some of the Fatah men laid down their we
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the US until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his "deal", Serbian newspaper Blic reported Saturday. "Karadzic, indicted for genocide and war crimes, was under the US protection
A suspected gas explosion caused the collapse of a three-storey girls dormitory in Turkey on Friday, killing at least 17 students. Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay said 27 girls have been pulled from the rubble, some with serious burn injuries.
The German airline company Lufthansa has reached an agreement with the trade union Verdi, as announced by Lufthansa Friday. The agreement is in important step forward towards ending the strike, which has triggered cancellations of hundreds of flights.
On August 29, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic must tell before the International Tribunal for the Yugoslav war crimes if he admits his guilt regarding the genocide accusations against him. Karadzic appeared at the U.
US federal prosecutors suspect that a Wall Street broker who is the target of a criminal investigation into sales of mortgage-related securities has fled to his native Bulgaria. US authorities have been investigating whether the suspected Bulgarian, Mr.
German airline Lufthansa has cancelled 10 percent of its scheduled flights on Thursday, as a pay strike by ground and cabin staff continues. Lufthansa said 136 flights, including intercontinental ones, are being cut, Deutsche Welle reported.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic faces a UN war crimes judge for the first time on Thursday to answer genocide charges. Judge Alphons Orie will officially inform Karadzic of the 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity on
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