US Secretary of State Colin Powell held talks in Lebanon and Syria aimed at calming tensions along Israel's troubled northern border. After meeting Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud, Mr Powell warned: "There is a very real danger of the situation along the
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has suggested the United States lead a regional conference to find peace for the Middle East. Mr Sharon said US Secretary of State Colin Powell - who is continuing diplomatic efforts in Lebanon and Syria - had supported
The South Korean Government said an Air China plane which crashed into a hillside in South Korea on Monday killing 115 people had been blown off course by strong winds. Thirty-nine people survived the crash about eight kilometres (five miles) north of the
Voters in East Timor are going to the polls to elect a president who will lead the country into independence after decades of occupation and bloodshed. In a display of unity rarely seen in presidential elections elsewhere the two candidates in the vote Fo
Police have used a water cannon to disperse anti-Nazis marching in protest against a right-wing rally in Vienna. Police said over 3,000 left-wing protesters marched through the main shopping district towards Heldenplatz (Heroes' Square), where around 180
Vlajko Stojiljkovic, a former Serbian interior minister accused of war crimes in Kosovo, died Saturday, two days after shooting himself outside Belgrade's parliament building, state television announced. Stojiljkovic was in charge of Serbia's special poli
President Hugo Chavez has reclaimed power in Venezuela, just two days after being forced from office. In a televised address he promised to unite the country and denied an announcement made by the military on Friday that he had resigned.
Secretary of State Colin Powell is meeting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his besieged West Bank headquarters. The head-to-head comes after Arafat condemned violence by both sides in the Mideast conflict.
Marking the worst battle in a six-year-old guerrilla war, Nepalese authorities on Saturday raised the death toll from a night of fighting to 160 -- many of them police beheaded by Maoist rebels. The dramatic jump in the death -- the government had reporte
Ethiopia and Eritrea have been informed of a new border drawn up by an international committee in a bid to end a long-standing conflict and bring peace to the Horn of Africa. The 96-member state Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague conveyed i
Afghan authorities have arrested four people in connection with a failed rocket attack on the Kandahar governor's palace early Saturday, an Afghan official said. Two rockets were fired at the palace around midnight (3:30 p.
Palestinian Authority leaders issued a statement Saturday condemning the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians, raising the possibility that a postponed meeting between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and U.S.
As ex-Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic remained in a critical condition on Friday, after shooting himself in the head, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic said the government's decision to hand suspects to an international tribunal would stand
Israeli forces rolled into two West Bank villages near Jenin early Saturday, a day after a suicide bombing in a crowded Jerusalem market killed six people and wounded scores more. The suicide attack prompted U.
A possible terrorist attack in London may have been foiled by police on the day of the Queen Mother's funeral, it has emerged. City of London Police are appealing for information on a suspicious car found abandoned on Tuesday.
Police say six people died Friday in a terror attack by a suicide bomber at a Jerusalem bus stop -- shortly after U.S.
Yugoslav federal health and labour secretary Miodrag Kovac has committed suicide in a Madrid hotel room. The Yugoslav embassy in the Spanish capital ruled out any link with the attempted suicide on Thursday of former Serbian Interior Minister Vlajko Stoji
Google Street View is again on its way through Bulgaria
Bulgaria has the Largest Gray Economy in Europe
