iarbamusic

Police probe death of UK soccer fan

British police are investigating the death of a man who was found unconscious at a soccer match on Saturday.

A trial for nine terror suspects accused of having ties to al Qaeda opened in a Belgian court Monday, with the main defendant suspected of nearly launching a terror attack hours before a 2008 EU summit in Brussels.

A U.S.-built, unmanned mini-submarine on an ocean research mission has successfully crossed the North Atlantic by gliding on underwater currents, U.S. officials said Wednesday in Spain, where they came to retrieve it.

Read full story for latest details.

An “ongoing attempted coup d’état” was taking place Thursday in the Republic of Niger, according to the Niger Embassy in London, England.

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.

Britain is about to have a massive expansion in renewable energy after awarding licenses for nine offshore wind farms Friday.

Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has arrived in London, days after a court overturned an order banning him for the country. Wilders — who has stoked controversy with his attacks on Islam — said the decision marked “a victory for the freedom of speech.”

A man presumed to have been in a vegetative state for five years has communicated with the outside world for the first time since suffering severe head injuries in a car crash, researchers said Thursday.

The two sides in the British Airways dispute agreed to talk Wednesday, days before cabin crew are set to go on a 12-day strike that will cause chaos for the airline during the busy holiday travel period.

The Basque separatist group ETA could be a planning a major attack or a high-profile kidnapping, Spain’s Interior Minister warned publicly this week, and the government raised its nationwide terrorism alert to “level two.”

In just the past 19 days, an estimated 63,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Somalia by fighting involving government forces and militias, combined with “general insecurity,” the United Nations’ refugee agency said Tuesday.

The relatives of five British sailors whose boat apparently drifted into Iranian territorial waters last week voiced relief Wednesday as their sons arrived at a yacht club in Dubai.

Read full story for latest details.

(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.

Category: Travel

About the Author:

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.