Police have detained a teenager who took a class of children hostage at his former school in north-eastern Spain. All 25 children, aged between 11 and 12-years-old, have emerged unharmed from the three-hour ordeal at the school in the town of Hospitalet d
The authorities in Ukraine say a journalist who went missing October 21 has been found hanged in an apartment in Belarus. The journalist, Mykhailo Kolomiyets, was the director of a financial news agency in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, has returned to work after several weeks of convalescence following a knife attack in the early hours of 6 October at City Hall during an overnight public event. He is a socialist and one of France's few openly gay po
European Union foreign ministers have agreed that the admission of 10 candidate nations should take place on 1 May 2004 - four months later than anticipated. The agreement at a meeting in Brussels follows calculations about the length of time it will take
At the end of his first day in Baghdad the chief UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, said he believed progress was being made as his team prepared to resume their monitoring work after a four-year absence. "The situation is tense at the moment, but there is
Up to 25 Spanish schoolchildren have been taken hostage by an armed kidnapper. Officials say a man has taken a class of children and a teacher hostage at the Casal de l'Angel school in the industrial town of Hospitalet de Llobregat, south of Barcelona.
Ex-Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti has insisted that he is innocent of the murder charge. A court in Italy sentenced former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to 24 years in prison over the 1979 murder of a journalist - overturning a previous ruling.
The first United Nations weapons inspectors in four years have returned to Baghdad to begin implementing a tough new UN mandate aimed at disarming Iraq. Heading the team, chief inspector Hans Blix said that their arrival heralded a "new opportunity," and
A court in Italy has sentenced former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to 24 years in prison over the 1979 murder of a journalist - overturning a previous ruling. Andreotti, seven times Italy's prime minister, had been cleared by a lower court three years
An Israeli armoured column, backed by helicopters, has moved into Gaza City to attack a Palestinian security forces compound. It is the fifth consecutive night that Israeli forces have been active inside the Gaza Strip.
An advance team of United Nations weapons inspectors is leaving for Baghdad shortly to begin the implementation of a tough new UN mandate aimed at disarming Iraq. Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix and Mohammed el-Baradei, his counterpart from the Internat
A new statement purported to be from the terrorist network al Qaeda warns the United States to "stop your support for Israel against the Palestinians, for Russians against the Chechens and leave us alone, or expect us in Washington and New York." "Do not
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon resisted right-wing pressure on Sunday to take direct action against Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the wake of Friday's deadly ambush on a group of Israelis in Hebron. Israeli troops have occupied most of the West
Three men have been charged with plotting to carry out a terror attack which police sources say included London's Underground rail network. Scotland Yard police have refused to officially comment on claims in the Sunday Times newspaper that the planned at
Indonesian police have released pictures of six more suspects in the Bali bombing case, including one of the man they say is the leader of the group. Chief police investigator I Made Mangku Pastika said Imam Samudra, who is alleged to have links with Isla
Embattled Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has sacked his government, and nominated a regional governor to head a new cabinet. No reason was given for his decree replacing Anatoly Kinakh with Viktor Yanukovich, who is thought to be a strong ally of the p
The new Turkish Prime Minister, Abdullah Gul, has said that the economy, resolving the conflict in Cyprus and taking Turkey into the European Union will be the priorities of his administration. Mr Gul, the deputy leader of Islamist-based Justice and Devel
The Israeli army has begun arresting suspected Palestinian militants in Hebron following a deadly attack in the West Bank city on Friday night. As soldiers searched Palestinian homes, the government scheduled a meeting to decide how to retaliate for the a
The United Nations' chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, has said he is counting on full co-operation from Iraq after it accepted the new UN resolution on inspections. "We hope and expect to have full Iraqi co-operation," he said after talks in Paris with
One of the senior leaders of the al-Qaeda network has reportedly been captured and is now said to be in American hands. The suspect, who US government sources say was caught in the past few weeks, has not been named.
Prime Minister John Howard has ordered an inquiry into a claim that Australia was warned about an imminent attack just before the bombings on Bali on 12 October. Saturday's Sydney Morning Herald quotes an unnamed Western diplomat based in Washington, DC,
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