Champions Spain draw Czechs in Euro 2012
European champions Spain were drawn with 2004 semifinalists the Czech Republic as they begin the defense of their title this year in qualifiers for the 2012 tournament in Poland and Ukraine.
Pirates off Somalia have hijacked two more vessels in the Gulf of Aden, the European Union naval force said Saturday — the third and fourth vessels they have captured this week.
A fire in the air traffic control tower at the Prague airport caused it to shut down and suspend or divert flights for several hours Saturday, a spokeswoman said.
As the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic resumed Monday in the Netherlands, a member of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s rotating presidency said that, in effect, “ethnic cleansing” continues — 15 years after a brutal civil war there ended.
Former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich looks set to become the president of Ukraine as the final votes are counted.
Czech students will take to the streets Tuesday, just as they did two decades ago when their historic march ushered in the fall of communist rule.
A British boy has been abducted in Pakistan, authorities confirmed Thursday.
A car carrying a 400-pound bomb was driven through barriers at police headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, crashing into a building, police said Sunday.
The UK’s weather service, the Met Office, is to publish temperature records to counter skeptics who say scientists are manipulating global warming data to strengthen the argument for man-made climate change.
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Former British prime minister Tony Blair on Friday rejected claims that he had struck a secret deal with U.S. President George W. Bush in 2002 pledging British backing for the invasion of Iraq.
More than 100 people were dead after an attack Sunday on a predominantly Christian group in central Nigeria, officials said.
In a little-known corner of southern England, more than 130 men are wrapping up in their winter warmers and drinking down their last whiskeys, as they prepare to do battle with their fiercest foes on the fairways.
Greek workers were holding a one-day strike Wednesday to protest government efforts to stave off a financial crisis.
A former royal aide convicted of murdering her boyfriend has failed to return to prison on schedule, UK police have said.
Fresh from medical school, Anna Bågenholm chose to do her residency in the Norwegian city of Narvik because of its spectacular mountain slopes. An expert skier, Bågenholm had gone off the trail with two other young doctors on a warm spring afternoon when she fell.
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