North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Friday, but it broke apart before escaping the earth's atmosphere and fell into the sea, a development foreign scientists have described as humiliating, CNN reported.
The council for Germany's Roma has gone to court to get a Swiss magazine banned in the country after it used an image of a Roma boy pointing a gun on its cover, BBC reported.
A Ukrainian court has sentenced the country's former acting Defense Minister Valeriy Ivashchenko to five years in jail for abuse of office.
The ceasefire in Syria has become official and effective by the deadline of Thursday, April 12, 2012.
Mali is facing a humanitarian catastrophe, warned EU Commissioner on humanitarian aid and crisis Kristalina Georgieva Wednesday.
The Syrian army will stop all operations by Thursday morning, revealed Syrian state TV Wednesday, quoting a source from the Syrian Ministry of Defense.
Organized gangs from Romania are responsible for a number of robberies reported on Serbia's E-75 highway, according to reports by Serbian police.
The tsunami watch issued for the entire Indian Ocean after Wednesday's massive earthquake in Indonesia has been lifted for most parts of the ocean.
At least three tsunamis measuring up to 80 centimeters have hit Indonesia's coast after the 8.
A few thousand people have been evacuated to higher ground from parts of India's Andaman and Nicobar islands on Wednesday following the two massive earthquakes off the coast of Indonesia.
A small tsunami measuring 10 centimeters (four inches) reached Thailand's Andaman Coast, triggered by the 8.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia earlier on Wednesday.
An aftershock with a preliminary magnitude of 8.2 shook Sumatra's western coast, promting Indonesian authorities to issue a fresh tsunami warning, according to international media.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami watch for the entire Indian Ocean after a massive earthquake hit the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday.
An 8.9 magnitude earthquake has hit off Northwestern Indonesia, according to international media.
Poland marks Tuesday the two-year anniversary of the plane crash near Russia's Smolensk, which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, First Lady Maria Kaczynska, and 94 people from the country's political and military elite.
Former South Ossetian KGB head Leonid Tibilov has been elected new president of the breakaway republic in a vote condemned by Georgia and welcomed by Russian lawmakers.
Gunmen in Nigeria have killed at least four people, including a six-year-old girl, in separate attacks in towns in the country's northeast.
Iran has reportedly blocked the website for the 2012 London Olympics.
The body of the 77-year-old retired Greek pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas, who committed suicide at a central Athens square last Wednesday, will be cremated in Bulgaria.
As North Korea presses forward with a controversial rocket launch and amid reports it is also planning a nuclear test, foreign journalists were granted a rare glimpse Sunday of the reclusive country's preparations.
Nobel laureate writer Guenter Grass of Germany has been declared "persona non grata" in Israel over a controversial poem.
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