Worldwide corruption on the increase - survey 2005-12-09 03:31:48
Corruption is escalating globally and United Nations anti-corruption research has found it affects poor people in developing countries the most.Full Story...
Skinner attacks Tory Osborne about cocaine 2005-12-09 01:24:31
Veteran left-wing British politician Dennis Skinner has been thrown out of parliament after accusing opposition Treasury spokesperson George Osborne of taking cocaine.Full Story...
Spain seizes top Croat war crimes fugitive 2005-12-09 01:27:48
Fugitive Croatian General Ante Gotovina, one of the three most wanted war crimes suspects from the former Yugoslavia, has appeared in a Spanish court after his arrest in Tenerife.Full Story...
Police and anti-train demonstrators clash 2005-12-08 11:04:20
Protesters demonstrating against a planned high-speed rail link with France clashed with police amid concern that anger about the project could mar the 2006 Winter Olympics in the northern area.Full Story...
Smiling Thatcher leaves hospital 2005-12-08 10:50:30
Declaring "I feel fine," former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has checked out of a London hospital after spending the night under observation for an apparent heart problem.Full Story...
Thousands to score in German soccer frenzy 2005-12-07 23:29:25
Artemis, a vast, four-storey brothel, is Germany's answer to the massive invasion of sex workers expected to flood the country for the 2006 Soccer World Cup.Full Story...
Tony Blair named 'Statesman of the Decade' 2005-12-08 06:59:55
A Euro-American think-tank concerned with promoting global peace and security has awarded British Prime minister Tony Blair with a prestigious title.Full Story...
Britain appeals to Iraq hostage-takers 2005-12-08 06:59:15
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has pleaded with the kidnappers of four Westerners in Iraq to get in contact and negotiate their release.Full Story...
WW2 mine shuts down central Gothenburg 2005-12-08 08:31:48
Parts of central Gothenburg in Sweden were closed off after a fishing boat caught and brought to shore what navy technicians identified as a World War Two mine.Full Story...
Dog saves three but burns to death 2005-12-07 16:11:50
A Belgian shepherd dog has saved three people from a burning building by waking them up with loud barks but perished in the flamesFull Story...
Booby-trapped toy injures boy in Chechnya 2005-12-07 09:55:50
A 10-year-old boy has become the latest civilian casualty in the conflict in Chechnya, suffering grave injuries after playing with a booby-trapped toy, Russian media have reported.Full Story...
Rice admits US could make mistakes in war 2005-12-06 20:02:39
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the United States could potentially make mistakes in its "war on terrorism" and promised to put them right when they occurred.Full Story...
Cameron to lead Britain's opposition party 2005-12-06 21:27:36
David Cameron has been chosen as the new leader of Britain's Conservative party, which has opted for youth in its political challenge against Prime Minister Tony Blair.Full Story...
Pizza delivery with a side-order of police 2005-12-06 19:47:18
When Vegard Sjaastad delivered a pizza near the western Norwegian town of Aalesund, there was something familiar about the customer's credit card.Full Story...
US to open military base in Romania 2005-12-06 21:56:30
Romania and the United States have signed a deal to open US military bases in the former Soviet bloc country, including an airfield at the centre of a controversy about alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe.Full Story...
Trying to revive lost art of the love letter 2005-12-06 08:07:40
Love may be in the air but it is no longer in the mail, according to a new competition to revive the lost art of love-letter writing in an age of emails and SMSes.Full Story...
Rice detention defence tested in Germany 2005-12-05 23:25:13
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has defended her country's handling of terrorism suspects and is set to face extreme pressure over the issue as she embarks on a four-nation trip to Europe - the source of widespread criticism of US treatment of detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.Full Story...
Singers hit discordant note on condom issue 2005-12-05 02:26:56
An Italian pop singer on the line-up for the Vatican's Christmas concert has been quoted as saying that condoms are evil, while a Brazilian singer has been dropped from the show for promoting the use of condoms.Full Story...
Same-sex unions recognised by British law 2005-12-05 07:31:19
A new law allowing gay and lesbian couples to form "civil partnerships" has come into effect in Britain, with hundreds of couples already queueing up outside council offices to make their relationships legal.Full Story...
Roof collapse leaves fourteen dead in Russia 2005-12-04 23:30:45
Fourteen people have been killed and several more injured when the roof of a public swimming pool collapsed in the Urals region of Russia.Full Story...
Swedish girls go back to the chastity belt 2005-12-04 02:57:41
A group of Swedish teenage girls has designed a belt that requires two hands to remove and which they hope will deter would-be rapists.Full Story...
Ukranian wife sets husband on fire 2005-12-04 01:11:40
The Ukranian woman who doused her husband of 20 years with petrol and set him on fire, says she wanted to get him back for "wasted years".Full Story...
Alpine hotel guests in for a big chill 2005-12-02 12:33:45
A 50-bed holiday village, complete with honeymoon suites, is being constructed high up Germany's loftiest mountain, the Zugspitze - and it's made entirely of ice.Full Story...
French face transplant patient 'doing well' 2005-12-02 12:38:33
A French woman who has received the world's first partial face transplant is in good health, the surgeons who carried out the operation said.Full Story...
Ukraine given free-market status 2005-12-02 01:04:00
The European Union have agreed to recognise Ukraine as a free-market economy, a status that this ex-Soviet republic was seeking to give it an economic and political foothold in the union it wants to join.Full Story...
Face transplant woman saved by dog - daughter 2005-12-02 07:28:15
The 38-year-old French woman who received the world's first partial face transplant was disfigured when her dog tried to wake her during a suicide attempt.Full Story...
G7 bids farewell to Greenspan 2005-12-02 07:07:41
Alan Greenspan will bow out after nearly 20 years as US central bank chief as the finance ministers from the world's richest nations head for talks on the world economy in London.Full Story...
Cops dismantle child porn ring in Bulgaria 2005-12-02 06:56:05
Bulgarian police seized more than 30 000 pictures and at least 2 gigabytes of porn videos, involving girls and boys aged between 3 and 12, in a special operation against an international child pornography ring.Full Story...
Ten die in fire at German homeless centre 2005-12-02 04:04:21
A fire which broke out at a homeless shelter in the central German town of Halberstadt has killed ten people and injured five others, police have said.Full Story...
Dogs fatally maul Swiss boy 2005-12-01 11:22:58
A six year-old boy has died after being attacked by a pack of dogs while walking to school in a northern Swiss village, police have said.Full Story...
British teen sentenced for racist axe murder 2005-12-01 12:13:31
The brother of Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for taking part in a racist murder of a black teenager with a mountaineering axe.Full Story...
France still teaching virtues of colonialism 2005-12-01 00:39:01
France's ruling party has come under attack for refusing to scrap a law that encourages schools to teach about "the positive role of the French presence overseas".Full Story...
Tragedy of Russia's abandoned Aids children 2005-12-01 01:31:48
Many children born in Russia to HIV-infected mothers are abandoned by their parents and state childcare institutions as a widespread stigma of the disease remains prevalent in the country, according to UNAids.Full Story...
Church of England gets first black archbishop 2005-12-01 01:03:00
The Church of England’s first black archbishop, Ugandan-born John Sentamu, has been formally inaugurated in a ceremony blending English tradition and African rhythms.Full Story...
It's all about that 'love molecule'... 2005-11-30 14:38:12
Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love - and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.Full Story...
French claim first partial face transplant 2005-11-30 10:18:06
French doctors are claiming a world-first partial face transplant, after a nose, set of lips and chin were grafted onto a woman disfigured by a dog bite.Full Story...
Teen guilty of British racist axe murder 2005-11-30 07:39:23
The teenage brother of a British premiership footballer has been found guilty of the murder of Anthony Walker, a black student bludgeoned to death with an axe. Walker and co-accused Michael Barton are awaiting sentencing.Full Story...
Germany will not be blackmailed - Merkel 2005-11-30 06:13:16
Chancellor Angela Merkel has refused to bow down to the threats of Iraqi kidnappers who have taken a German aid worker hostage but has stated that the German government would do all it could to bring her to safety as soon as possible.Full Story...
Hundreds protest against high-speed train 2005-11-30 02:52:12
Scores of people have gathered in northern Italy to protest against the drilling of a tunnel for a high-speed rail line linking Turin with Lyon, France.Full Story...
Need housework done? Don't call an Irishman 2005-11-29 10:40:44
Most Irishmen are useless at helping out in the home with the majority doing no cooking or cleaning, according to a new study by the country's leading economic think-tank.Full Story...
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