Woman Admits to Starting Paris Hotel Blaze
A woman has admitted that she accidentally started the fire at a discount Paris hotel last week. The blaze killed 22 people at the Paris Opera hotel.
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A woman has admitted that she accidentally started the fire at a discount Paris hotel last week. The blaze killed 22 people at the Paris Opera hotel.
A suicide bomber in a car attacked Iraqi forces in Baghdad on Tuesday and police officials said casualties were feared. The attack was directed at a National Guard camp in the Athamiya district of Baghdad, where insurgents are active.
Italy's government remained mired in crisis as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi tendered the resignation of four cabinet ministers. The government was plunged into crisis on Friday when a key ally said it would pull out of his coalition government.
Silvio Berlusconi will resign as Italy's prime minister and then accept a request to form a new coalition government, BBC reported. The moves would end growing political uncertainty in Italy and avoid the need for early elections after Berlusconi lost a k
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura flew into China Sunday to try to ease a crisis following the third weekend of violent demonstrations in Shanghai. The fury of the Chinese was triggered by a revised Japanese school textbook they say whitewashes
The death toll in a fire that broke out at the six-story Paris-Opera Hotel in downtown Paris early Friday reached 21, after the body of a woman was retrieved. Eleven adults and 10 children died in the disaster, while other 11 victims are currently being t
Seven people have been killed in a bomb attack in a restaurant in the Iraqi city of Baquba, north of Baghdad. Five other people were injured in the lunchtime attack, Col Ismail Ibrahim told AFP news agency.
A total of 136 peacemakers of 7th detached mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have returned to Ukraine from Iraq. Also on Friday the group of the new rotation of the Ukrainian peacemaking contingent in Iraq has been conveyed to Iraq by two f
President Jacques Chirac is set to launch the Yes campaign in France's referendum on the EU constitution in a TV debate with 80 young people. The Yes campaign, which includes most of the country's political elite from left and right, is under pressure.
Two twin explosions near an Interior Ministry building have wounded at least 20 people. Casualties from the first blast were much worse because it went off in the middle of blocked traffic.
The French senate has approved a law allowing terminally ill patients to choose death. The law allows doctors to stop giving medical assistance when it "has no effect other than maintaining life artificially".
A small crowd of sightseers and tearful pilgrims filed past Pope John Paul II's tomb early Wednesday after the Vatican opened the site to the public for the first time since the Pontiff's funeral. A few hundred people were waiting in line when the Vatican
US pop princess Britney Spears confirmed Tuesday that she is pregnant with her first child, ending weeks of frenzied speculation over whether she was launching a new career as a mother. "The time has finally come to share our wonderful news that we are ex
German police have freed the four schoolgirls that were seized hostages earlier on Tuesday. The teenagers were held by an Iranian man for four hours.
Miss North Carolina, a 21-year-old brunette, was crowned Miss USA at the 54th annual pageant Monday night. Chelsea Cooley will compete May 30 in the Miss Universe competition in Bangkok, Thailand.
A US contractor has been kidnapped near Baghdad on Monday, a US embassy spokesman said, the latest foreigner abducted in the Iraqi capital. The contractor was working on a reconstruction project.
The US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Baghdad, warning Iraq's new leaders against political purges and corruption that could spark "lack of confidence or corruption in government". The United States oppose any move to delay the
Jewish residents of four West Bank settlements will be disarmed about two weeks before they are removed from their homes this summer, military officials announced. Settlers, however, remain reluctant to give up their weapons.
Moscow's Ostankino television centre has burst into flames and thick black smoke is billowing from the windows, Itar-Tass news agency informed. Fire brigades and rescuers rushed to the scene of the fire and rescued 25 people, the city's fire department wa
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