Germany's richest woman and an heiress to carmaker BMW's fortune, Susanne Klatten, was blackmailed for millions of euro by a Swiss lover threatening to release secretly-filmed sex videos of the two. Reports in German media over the weekend said Klatten h
Inmates in 21 prisons across Greece have launched Monday a hunger strike to protest poor conditions in Greek jails and lengthy pre-trial detention periods.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez predicted on Sunday the "black man" would win the US presidential race and offered to hold talks with him to improve ties between the countries. "I am ready to sit down and talk and I hope we can enter a new stage," Chave
The Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party Barack Obama criticized Saturday his Republican opponent John McCain because of the endorsement the latter received from the US Vice President Dick Cheney. "I'd like to congratulate Sen.
The Republican Party candidate for the US Presidency John McCain campaigned in the key battleground state of Virgia on Saturday where he stressed he was making a comeback, CNN reported. With 48 hours left before the 2008 Election day, the Arizona Senator
The lead of the Democratic Party candidate for President of the USA Barack Obama on his Republican rival John McCain has stabilized at 6% two days before the elections, according to the results from the latest C-SPAN/Reuters/Zogby poll released Sunday.
The US Democratic presidential runner Barack Obama said he was not aware that he had an Kenyan aunt living illegally in the United States, BBC reported Saturday.
With only three days left before the US presidential election, the Republican candidate Senator John McCain is campaigning with California Governor and fellow party member Arnold Schwarzenegger in Ohio, CNN reported. In an attempt to overturn Democrat Ba
The toxic chemical melamine is probably being routinely added to Chinese animal feed, state media has reported after several brands of Chinese eggs were found to contain the chemical. BBC correspondents say the unusually frank reports in news outlets are
The presidential candidate of the Democratic Party Barack Obama is keeping his public support lead on his rival from the Republican Party John McCain, CNN reported.
The Republican Party candidate in the 2008 US Presidential Elections John McCain appeared Thursday for the first time with "Joe the Plumber" during a campaign rally in Ohio, the BBC reported. The 34-year-old assistant plumber from Ohio, whose real name i
The Presidential candidate of the Republican Party John McCain pleaded Thursday for emergency donations in the last four days before the 2008 US Elections in a final push to achieve victory over Barack Obama, the BBC reported.
The Croatian journalist Ivo Pukanic, who was murdered in Zagreb on October 23, had been one of the main witnesses in a Balkan cigarette contraband investigation of the police in the Italian city of Bari, the Italian Prosecutor Guiseppe Scelsi announced as
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday aired a half-hour, prime-time ad on seven major US TV channels. The ad was shown on CBS, Fox and NBC, as well as on Spanish language channel Univision, BET, MSNBC and TV One.
Former US Vice-President Al Gore is going to campaign for fellow party member Barack Obama in the key state of Florida and is scheduled to appear in Fort Lauderdale with his wife, Tipper.
Josef Fritzl, known as the monster from Austria, because he fathered seven children from his daughter while keeping her imprisoned in a cellar for 24 years, has now admitted treating his mother the same way. The information has been published in the Brit
In an interview for CNN's Larry King presidential candidate John McCain denied that race will determine the outcome of next week's election against Democrat Barack Obama. "Look, there's racism in America, we all know that.
Hong Kong officials said they have found a new batch of eggs imported from China, tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. The tainted eggs came from a processing plant in Gong'an County of central China's Hubei Province, Xinhua reported.
The death toll from the 6.4-magnitude earthquake that devastated the impoverished Pakistani province of Baluchistan has risen to at least 215 with thousands of people displaced.
The former US President Bill Clinton appeared together with the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at a rally in central Florida on Wednesday, where he pointed out there were four major reasons to pick Obama over McCain.
The Democratic candidate for the US Presidency Barack Obama has an 8% lead in Colorado, one of the major battleground states of the 2008 Elections, CNN reported Thursday.
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