Gwyneth Paltrow gave birth during the weekend to her second child, a son she and her husband have named Moses. Paltrow, who won an Academy Award as best actress for her role in the 1998 film "Shakespeare in Love" married Chris Martin in a secret ceremony
An American aged 40 has been arrested after jumping the fence of the White House the past weekend. Brian Lee Patterson jumped the fence and ran across the north lawn yelling that he was a victim of terrorism.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be declared "permanently incapacitated" on Tuesday, over three months after he slipped into a coma. Although Sharon has not been active for the past months this will officially put the end to his time in office.
Both Italy and Hungary have chosen April 9 for their general elections. Marred by interpersonal insults and scandals, Italy's elections again clash current PM Silvio Berlusconi and former European Commission President Romano Prodi.
Five experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have arrived in Iran to visit Uranium enrichment facilities, media reported. The inspectors will visit an enrichment center in Natanz, and a nuclear facility in Ishafan, both in the central p
Two gunmen took hostages in a Burger King fast food joint in Istanbul, and quickly released them, local media reported. The men surrendered to the police that had surrounded the restaurant at Istanbul's popular Taksim Square.
US President George Bush authorized the leak of secret intelligence to a newspaper to help defend the Iraq war, a former White House aide has said. Pre-trial court papers cite Lewis "Scooter" Libby as saying he was told to tell a reporter Iraq was "vigor
Authorities in Kenya say a reported plane crash at Nairobi airport was a practice drill. Earlier media reported that a plane with 80 people on board has crashed at Nairobi airport.
Hamas officials say Israeli police have arrested a cabinet minister from the new Hamas-led Palestinian government. Khaled Abu Arafa, minister of Jerusalem affairs, was arrested on the outskirts of Jerusalem, the officials said.
The cockpit recording from the hijacked airplane which crashed in Pennsylvania on 11 September 2001 is to be played in public for the first time. The judge in the trial of self-confessed al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui ruled that the audio could be pl
French trade unions set a deadline of mid-April for the government to withdraw a controversial youth labour law designed to tackle unemployment. Otherwise, the unions said, they were ready to organise a "new day of action" along with student groups.
Opposition activists in Nepal have begun a four-day general strike in protest against King Gyanendra's seizure of power more than a year ago. A mass anti-monarchy rally is planned for Saturday despite a ban on public protests in the capital, Kathmandu.
Late Slobodan Milosevic died of natural causes, according to Dutch prosecutors who ruled out any foul play. The former Serbian president was found dead in his cell at The Hague on March 11 while being tried for war crimes.
Rising floodwaters have continued to cause chaos across central Europe killing a dozen people in several countries along the Danube river. With more heavy rain expected next week and the Danube reaching record levels in Budapest, the government in Hungary
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is to be charged with genocide over a 1980s campaign against the Kurds, an Iraqi tribunal has announced. Saddam Hussein and six others face new charges over a campaign of arrests, deportation, and the destruction of p
The lone defendant for the September 11 attacks in New York is eligible for execution, a federal jury has decided. Zacarias Moussaoui, aged 37, was under arrest at the time of the attacks, but the Justice Department argued that he wilfully concealed detai
Scores of people are being evacuated from their homes in the Czech Republic as flooding continues to hit central Europe. Heavy rain and rapidly melting snow have led to alerts in Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw have urged Iraq's leaders to speed up negotiations on a new government, BBC reported. The pair made a surprise trip to Baghdad from the UK, after Ms Rice's two-day stay there hoste
A plane carrying 19 people has crashed on a mountainous region outside Rio de Janeiro, killing all aboard, Civil Defence officials said today. Rescue workers found the plane's wreckage in Saquarema, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) East of Rio, nearly 10 ho
Sweden has accepted the invitation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to audit of the detention unit outside of The Hague where Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in mid-March. The audit will include all areas relating
At least 50 people have been killed and 800 injured after several earthquakes in western Iran, local officials said. The quakes, with magnitudes of up to six, centred on remote villages between the industrial towns of Doroud and Boroujerd in the province
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