Known as the world's biggest party, the five-day pre-Lent bash started Friday with the ceremonial handing of the key to the city of Rio to the symbolic "fat king." The highlight of Rio's festival, the biggest of all the carnival festivities in cities acro
Israel will begin tearing down part of a barrier being built in the West Bank on the eve of World Court hearings over the legality of the controversial project, Israeli officials said on Saturday. Work to remove an eight km (five mile) section of the barr
Libya used technology and know-how acquired through the black market to process uranium into plutonium, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Friday. Diplomats citing a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the country was a
China will launch its second manned space mission next year, state television said Saturday. The Shenzhou 6 will be launched with two astronauts aboard some time in 2005 and will remain in orbit for five to seven days, according to China Central Televisio
The Bush administration is abandoning the core idea of its plan to hold regional caucuses for an Iraqi provisional government, and will instead work with the United Nations and Iraqis to develop yet another plan for the transfer of political power by June
Former Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has secured enough support to form a new Serbian government, Serbian news agency Beta informed on Friday. Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia will lead a minority government made up of four parties.
California Gov????? Arnold Schwarzenegger stood defiant to the marriage licenses San Francisco is issuing to same-sex couples, claiming they are illegal. Meanwhile, the city filed Thursday a suit against the state challenging the law that defines marriage
Police officials in Perugia, about 130 kilometers (about 80 miles) north of Rome, said a parcel exploded on Friday, causing some injuries. The Italian news agency Apcom said three policemen were injured and taken to a local hospital, although it appeared
The polling day in Iran will be prolonged due to the crowds of people filing at the ballot booths to vote for an Iranian parliament, AFP informed. Earlier Friday, voting began in Iran's disputed parliamentary election, overshadowed by a ban on most reform
Iran has launched investigation over the circumstances at which scores of railway wagons loaded with chemicals, fuel and fertiliser managed to roll out of control, derail and explode causing the deaths of 320 people and injuring 450 others, Iranian news a
With quick elections and caucuses ruled out, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has offered to help Iraqis establish an interim government with broad support that would assume power after June 30. U.
A MiG-21 from India's Air Force crashed Friday morning on the Lakha Bawal village, 25 km from the city of Jamnagar, killing three people. Witnesses, cited by The Times of India, said they saw a fireball coming down from the sky, which indicates that the a
At least two domestic cats and a white tigers have been infected with the deadly bird flu, scientists announced in Bangkok. According to local doctors, those were the first cases of cats infected with the H5N1 ever.
An explosion killed two US infantrymen in an insurgent center west of Baghdad on Thursday. The blast occurred as troops from Task Force All-American were investigating an earlier attack on a US convoy near Khaldiyah, a Sunni Triangle town.
Former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling pleaded not guilty to 36 counts of fraud and insider trading relating to the collapse of the Houston energy giant and was released on bail of five million dollars. The former number two at Enron Corp.
Jewish leaders are urging Europe to take a tougher stand against what they see as a rising tide of anti-Semitism. They are making their plea at a Brussels seminar which the European Commission is co-hosting with the European Jewish Congress and the Congre
Stunned residents in Iran's north-east began burying more than 300 people killed when a runaway train exploded. The thunderous blast killed everyone at the scene, and wiped out at least five nearby mud brick villages.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said it is not feasible to hold elections in Iraq before the United States hands over power at the end of June. But he said the transfer of power to an interim Iraqi administration should go ahead as planned by the end of J
Jeff Skilling, former chief executive of bankrupt Enron Corp., has been charged with 42 counts of fraud, insider trading and giving false statements to auditors, after surrendering himself at the Houston headquarters of the FBI.
Firemen Thursday extinguished the last blazes on a runaway freight train loaded with fuel and chemicals that blew up in eastern Iran and killed nearly 300 people, allowing rescue workers to start digging for more victims. Revolutionary guards cordoned off
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac called Wednesday for the appointment of a European commissioner charged exclusively with pushing through economic reforms. The three held a special
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