Ousted Ukraine leader set to return
In a remarkable comeback, former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich seems set to become the president of Ukraine — five years after he was ousted in a populist pro-Western uprising dubbed the “Orange Revolution.”
Pope Benedict XVI championed the environment in the Vatican’s annual World Day of Peace message.
Two ethnic Uyghur brothers from China will be released from Guantanamo prison and transferred to Switzerland to live, according to the Uyghur American Association.
An impassioned U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking to students at Moscow State University on Wednesday, admonished those in the U.S. and Russian governments who haven’t moved beyond a Cold War mentality.
Eurostar rail services remain suspended for a third day as the cross-channel operator works to fix a fault which caused a series of breakdowns blamed on winter weather.
Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway claimed his first Olympic gold medal with victory in the men’s super-G at Whistler Creekside on Friday.
Twenty-eight suspected pirates were taken into custody Friday by the European Union Naval Force after a handful of failed attacks on fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean, the EU mission said.
A London-based security clothing company has been blasted for marketing a “stab-proof vest” for football fans planning to visit this summer’s World Cup in South Africa.
Nigeria’s ailing president has broken two months of silence to assure his countrymen that contrary to speculation he is alive and intending to return to power soon.
A controversial extra-time goal by William Gallas saw France reach the World Cup finals after a 1-1 home draw against the Republic of Ireland in Paris on Wednesday night.
Thierry Henry’s confession that he handled the ball in the build up to the goal which sent France to next summer’s World Cup, has done little to console a devastated Ireland team as the controversy rumbled into Thursday.
(CNN) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Copenhagen early Thursday morning amid concerns that time is running out at the climate change summit for world leaders to agree a deal to combat global warming.
A British couple held hostage by pirates for more than three months have told of brutal treatment at the hand of their captors who they say are perilously close to killing them.
German international footballer Robert Enke has died at the age of 32 after being killed at a railway crossing near his home on Tuesday.
The widow of former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose assassination sparked the 1994 genocide, was arrested Tuesday in Paris on a Rwandan warrant, French and Rwandan officials said.
A militant Islamist group associated with al Qaeda attacked areas controlled by government troops and peacekeepers in Somalia early Friday, leaving 12 dead and scores injured, witnesses said.
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