Police seize explosives in central Portugal
Police in Portugal this week seized more than 3,000 pounds of explosives from a house used by the Basque separatist group ETA, the Spanish Interior Ministry said Saturday.
A controversial British Muslim cleric is threatening to stage a march through the English town that receives British war dead as a protest against the war in Afghanistan, drawing fury and outrage.
We shouldered our packs — leaving behind us a small town of wooden shacks, and making our way up a steep climb into the Mbe mountains and Nigeria’s last rainforest.
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Closing arguments began Friday in the case of slain British student Meredith Kercher, with the prosecutor calling for an end to the legal saga that began with Kercher’s death two years ago.
Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway claimed his first Olympic gold medal with victory in the men’s super-G at Whistler Creekside on Friday.
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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.
The world’s biggest social networking site has rejected criticism by a senior UK police officer responsible for preventing online bullying that it is failing to combat abuse.
Two British soldiers and a Spanish soldier were killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan, the British and Spanish Defense Ministries said.
One of the men convicted of killing British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, in 2007 has had his sentence reduced on appeal, a lawyer in the case said Tuesday.
Spanish banking giant Santander on Monday began its campaign to rename hundreds of Abbey and Bradford and Bingley bank branches across Britain.
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An award-winning independence activist returned home to Western Sahara early Friday from Spain.
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte, sporting a foam clown nose, landed back on Earth after a $35 million working vacation at the international space station, a Russian report said.
Rory McIlroy made a strong start to the defense of his Dubai Desert Classic title, ending Thursday’s opening round in a six-way tie for the lead.
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