Twelve men and five youths have been arrested in Canada on suspicion of planning an "al-Qaeda-inspired" bombing campaign in and around Toronto. During the raid, officers have seized bomb-making material including three tons of ammonium nitrate.
A moderate earthquake has rattled Turkey on Saturday afternoon, media reported. It hit at about 2 p.
A Russian diplomat has been killed and four others kidnapped in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, it was reported on Saturday. The news was first broken by Iraqi officials, then a confirmation came from Moscow.
Iran was shaken by an earthquake of 5.2 Saturday morning, Bulgarian media said citing Iran's official news agency.
Iran is determined to obtain a nuclear weapon and is quite possibly to possess one within ten years, according to the senior US intelligence chief. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte told BBC Radio Tehran could have a nuclear bomb ready bet
Seventeen workers were killed when a coalmine in Turkey collapsed after a methane gas explosion late on Thursday. Three people are still trapped.
The US army says it is investigating an incident in which 11 Iraqis may have been deliberately killed by US troops, after the emergence of video evidence. The video aired on the BBC appears to challenge the US account of the events in the town of Ishaqi i
Czechs go the polls June 2 and 3 to elect deputies to the lower house of parliament, the Chamber of Deputies. The Czech Republic has enjoyed an economic boom under a centre-left coalition led by Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek's Social Democrats, but a strin
Fourteen have been killed in the massive explosion that shattered the eastern parts of Turkey's largest city of Istanbul on Thursday. All of them are employees of a private bank.
Romania's Deputy Prime Minister George Copos, who is responsible for Business, Small and Medium Enterprises, has resigned his post. The decision was triggered by Copos' disagreement with the new Taxation Code draft that was approved by the government a da
Lithuania's 13th government in 15 years of independence collapsed Wednesday after one of the three coalition parties withdrew amid allegations of corruption. The coalition led by Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas resigned after months of turmoil and defe
Indonesia upped the death toll from the earthquake which hit the island of Java on Saturday to more than 5,800. Large quantities of aid started flowing into affected areas, and the UN spoke of "enormous progress" being made.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki declared a month-long state of emergency in Basra. Visiting the city, Maliki said he would use an "iron fist" to crush those who threaten security.
The 69-year-old founder of the Daewoo Group has been jailed for ten years. Kim Woo-choong was found guilty on charges including embezzlement and accounting fraud.
Twenty-five people were injured in the traditional British cheese-rolling competition in Brockworth, South-western England. The incident occurred when the participants chased the wheel-shaped Double Gloucester cheese in a 200-meter race down a slope.
A Palestinian militant has been shot dead by Israeli forces near the border with Israel. The dead man was reported to be a member of the Popular Resistance Committees, a small Palestinian militant group.
Four people were killed and at least three others were hurt in an explosion at a chemical plant near the Serbian capital Belgrade. The explosion occurred at Prva Iskra factory at Baric, which produces explosives as well as toxic hydrofluoric acid used in
Pope Benedict XVI visited the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in a symbolic end to his tour of Poland. The German-born Pope walked alone under the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate at the entrance to the camp, where he met survivors and said prayers.
Strong quakes rattled the South Pacific on Sunday but there were no reports of major damage or injury. A strong earthquake measuring 6.
Pope Benedict paid homage to his predecessor, John Paul II, by paying a visit to his home town of Wadowice in southern Poland. During his one-hour stop the Pope visited the home where John Paul, then Karol Wojtyla, was born and grew up.
More than 70 people have been arrested in Moscow after activists tried to hold the city's first gay rights rally, despite a ban on the event. About 50 gay rights supporters were held, as well as 20 people from religious and nationalist groups opposed to
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