An explosion went off at a major arms research facility in Israel, injuring several people. Early reports suggest the blast at the Rafael military research centre, near the northern port city of Haifa, was caused by an accident.
Two people have been arrested two days after GBP 40 M was taken in Britain's biggest cash robbery. A 29-year-old man and a woman of 30 were questioned by investigators in relation to the heist.
Slovakia has confirmed its first two cases of H5N1 bird flu. One of the dead birds was found in capital Bratislava, and the other one - in Gabcikovo, southwestern Slovakia.
At least 58 people were killed and nearly 30 injured in a collapse of a market roof in eastern Moscow Thursday morning. At least ten people are feared trapped under the rubble at the market.
A bomb has exploded in the Basque city of Bilbao after a warning from separatist group ETA. Spanish police said the bomb exploded outside a factory and nobody was injured.
Three photographers were found guilty of violating privacy laws when they took paparazzi photos of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed on the night they died. Jacques Langevin, Fabrice Chassery and Christian Martinez were imposed a symbolic fine of one euro.
British historian David Irving was found guilty in Vienna of denying the Holocaust of European Jewry and sentenced to three years in prison. He had pleaded guilty to the charge, based on a speech and interview he gave in Austria in 1989.
A suicide bombing on a bus in Baghdad has killed at least 12 Iraqis. Eleven people have died in other violence, including a restaurant bombing in the northern city of Mosul.
Israel's cabinet has approved punitive sanctions on the Palestinian Authority, now dominated by militant group Hamas. Israel will withhold an estimated USD 50 M in monthly customs revenues due to the PA, as well as impose travel restrictions on Hamas memb
At least ten people perished in a second mudslide in the Philippines, three days after a landslide destroyed a Philippines village and killed more than 3,000 people. Rescue teams are holding little hope of finding any more survivors.
Three earthquakes measuring 4, 3.7 and 3.
Armed Nigerian militants have seized a number of hostages, including a Briton, three Americans, two Egyptians, two Thais and one Filipino. Gangs launched a wave of attacks across the country's troubled Niger Delta, blowing up oil and gas pipelines and sei
An entire village has been wiped out by a major landslide in the central Philippines caused by heavy rains. Sixteen people have been confirmed dead so far, but Red Cross and military officials claimed between 1,500 and 2,500 might be buried in the mud.
Egyptian officials say experts have located the wreck of a ferry which sank in the Red Sea almost two weeks ago killing about 1,000 people. The al-Salam 98 was found in 800m (2,600 ft) of water, 90km (56 miles) from Egypt's port of Safaga, Transport Minis
Three people were killed and 30 injured after a train derailed near the northern city of Serres, to the north of Greece. According to officials, the inter-city train collided with a small truck.
The newly released pictures of the horrifying tortures that took place in the Iraqi Abu Ghraib prison have fuels new fears in the US and against it, media comments. The new images are said to have been taken at the same time the now-infamous pictures of
An Australian TV channel broadcast previously unpublished images showing apparent US abuse of prisoners in Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail in 2003. The images shown on SBS television were from the same source as those that caused an outcry around the world and led
A bomb that has blasted in the centre of Baghdad has killed three children, who were on their way to school. Authorities believe that the blast was intended for a police patrol that circled the area around that time.
Athens mayor Dora Bakoyianni has been named as the new Greek foreign minister, becoming the first woman to take over the post. Bakoyianni, 51, is the oldest child of former conservative prime minister Costas Mitsotakis.
A German political cartoonist has been threatened with death after publishing a caricature in which the Iranian national soccer team wear belts of explosives next to German soldiers. Klaus Stuttmann, whose caricature was published in the Friday edition of
Serbia's police have launched an investigation into the case with the emptied Bulgarian gas cisterns. So far police could not reveal any further information but after the end of the investigation the collected material will be handed to the Prosecutor's
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