Polls open in Ukraine elections
Polls opened Sunday for the second round of Ukraine’s presidential elections — a bitter battle between a populist prime minister and the man she once helped oust.
In his annual state of the nation speech, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev paints his vision for the country’s future, saying “modernization” is the key to its “very survival.”
Workers at Opel factories in Germany plan to go on strike Thursday over General Motors’ decision to abandon the sale of the automaker.
Those most responsible for last year’s post-election violence in Kenya may now be punished by the International Criminal Court, after Kenya missed a deadline to address the issue.
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.”
An explosion late Friday at a nightclub in central Russia has killed at least 15 people and injured 60 others, state-run media reported.
Russia signed a deal with Libya to provide nearly $2 billion in arms to the North African nation, Russian state media reported Saturday.
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David Beckham’s commitments with Los Angeles Galaxy have forced him to withdraw from the England squad to face Brazil in a friendly in Qatar.
Up to 30 million people are facing “a humanitarian disaster” as one of Africa’s biggest lakes shrinks, a United Nations agency warned Thursday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union, will formally join with two other parties on Monday to form a new center-right government.
Two fingers cut from the hand of Italian astronomer Galileo nearly 300 years ago have been rediscovered more than a century after they were last seen, an Italian museum director said Monday.
The winner of one of the world’s most prestigious photography competitions has been stripped of his title for allegedly hiring a trained wolf to stage the winning shot.
Now that the gloss is beginning to wear off Barack Obama’s poll ratings at home how is the president being seen between Ljubljana and Lisbon?
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.
The United States and NATO should withdraw from Afghanistan on the basis of success and not set artificial deadlines for a pullout, Britain’s opposition Conservative Party Leader David Cameron told CNN Friday.
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