Saddam Hussein's trial has heard its first witness testimony, from a now deceased former Iraqi intelligence officer on a pre-recorded video. Wadah Ismael al-Sheik investigated the 1982 assassination attempt which triggered the alleged massacre in Dujail u
The Tiber River that passes through Italy's capital Rome is threatening to overflow, drowning the city. Hundreds have been evacuated after the downpours that hit the country.
Eight people have been arrested in the north Iraq city of Kirkuk for allegedly planning to kill the judge who prepared the case against Saddam Hussein. The men, arrested four days ago, had a letter from Saddam Hussein's former deputy Izzat Ibrahim al-Dour
Voting has ended in Chechnya's first parliamentary poll since Moscow restored control in the region in 1999. Turnout was 57%, election commission Chairman Ismail Baikhanov told Itar-Tass news agency.
An earthquake has killed at least 14 people and destroyed thousands of homes in the central regions of China. The tremor had a magnitude of 5.
The first Palestinians have moved through the only crossing point between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, as it re-opened under Palestinian control. It is the first time the Palestinians are managing an international border, BBC reported.
Former Manchester United and Northern Ireland star George Best has died at hospital aged 59. Best was in intensive care with multiple organ failure after weeks of poor health.
Italy grinds to a halt Friday as public service workers take to the streets in protest at the government's draft budget. The strike has been called by Italy's three biggest unions who have 12 million members between them.
A suicide car bomber killed 30 people outside a hospital in central Iraq, including four police guards, three women and two children.Four US soldiers who had been handing out toys to children outside the hospital in Mahmoudiya, about 30 km south of Baghda
The Vatican has prepared a special draft to reaffirm the policy of keeping homosexuals out of the priesthood. Men who experience a short-lived phase of homosexuality may join a seminary if they have overcome such tendencies for at least three years, the d
Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie visited earthquake-ravaged northern Pakistan. Jolie, who is a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, went to a village in a remote valley, flying aboard a helicopter that took food, bla
Freshly sworn-in German Chancellor Angela Merkel has landed in Paris at a visit aimed to mend her country's ties with France. She said that strong ties with Paris are vital for both countries and for the European Union as a whole.
Ukraine is marking the first anniversary of its "Orange Revolution", the mass protests that ousted the previous pro-Russian government. Addressing a cheering, 100,000-strong crowd in capital Kiev's central Independence Square, President Viktor Yushchenko
A UK man has been diagnosed with the human form of the mad cow disease, it became known on Tuesday. The symptoms became while the man was living in Houston, US, so he was listed as an American patient.
The court in Madrid will launch the biggest trial connected to Basque separatist organization ETA. A total of 56 people are accused of belonging to, or cooperating with the fraction.
The leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina gather in Washington on Monday to mark ten years since the signing of the Dayton treaty that put an end to the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the Second World War. The U.
US President George Bush has called on China to expand its social, political and religious freedoms. On a visit to Beijing, he also said he and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao had agreed to work together to reduce their trade imbalance.
The number of the victims of the Saturday a suicide car bomb attack on the funeral of a Shiite sheikh rose to at least 50 from 35. Another 75 people were wounded when the bomber blew up his vehicle near a crowded condolence tent at the tribal sheikh's fun
Christina Aguilera has reportedly tied the knot Saturday night with music executive Jordan Bratman, according to a magazine report. US Weekly reported the wedding took place at a vineyard in California's Napa Valley.
Tropical Storm Gamma lashed Central America with heavy rain on Saturday, killing at least nine people and cutting off part of the Honduran coast as the 24th major storm in a record Atlantic hurricane season cut an erratic course toward Cuba. Slow-moving G
A car bomb has exploded near a market outside Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding 21. Also on Saturday, Iraqi police arrested four people in connection with the Friday suicide bombings in two mosques.
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