Does the brain process words and music separately or as one? Well scientists in Germany seem to have found an answer to the hotly debated...

North Korean dictators Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il had placed special agents across Europe for shopping sprees which included buying, luxury carpets, gold-plated guns, small Cessna planes and high-priced foreign cars such as Mercedes-Benz and Lincolns, according to the memoir of former Army Col. Kim...

Rihanna reportedly jetted in from Germany to meet her new boyfriend Matt Kemp' family for the first...

Sweden has the most number of bisexual babes in the world and San Francisco is the kinkiest place to visit - these are some of the facts revealed by a new...

Gursewak Dhillon, a part-time taxi driver who dumped three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa's body nearly 20 km from his home in this Australian city, was being probed for 'possible immigration fraud', an official said...

Nicklas Bendtner scored a superb hat-trick as Arsenal produced a virtuoso performance to crush Porto 5-0 to storm into the quarter-finals of the Champions League...

Cypriot authorities Tuesday arrested two people, including an Indian national, for allegedly stealing the corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos from his grave three months ago and said the suspects had earlier demanded a...

A Turkish court arrested three soldiers in an investigation over an alleged plot to topple the AK Party government, state-run news agency Anatolian...

(File, IDM) THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — First it was drugs among the flowers. Now, drug traffickers have stuffed real drugs into fake fruit in an effort to smuggle cocaine into the Netherlands,...

Coach Unai Emery hopes Valencia CF can prove that Monday's drab 0-0 Liga draw with Real Racing Club "was just an accident" when they host Werder Bremen in their UEFA Europa League round of 16...

FC Rubin Kazan's Premier League defence does not start until the weekend, but coach Kurban Berdyev insists his side are "ready for the challenge" of meeting VfL Wolfsburg in freezing...

SHEGERAB, Sudan (AFP) - Fleeing a military regime, thousands of young Eritreans stream into neighbouring east Sudan, the first stage of their long migration to Europe, Israel -- or even Khartoum.For...

PARIS (AFP) - France awarded one of its highest artistic honours on Tuesday to the Japanese screen star and film maker Takeshi Kitano, director of bizarre and violent cult movies such as "Battle...

ATHENS (Reuters) - The Greek economy is set to shrink by more than expected this year, the government said on Wednesday, as it braced for nationwide strikes protesting its plans for bringing the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said on Wednesday his country was working to get its fiscal house in order and wanted markets to recognize that.Speaking at the end of...

KAYALIK, Turkey — Turkish officials on Wednesday lowered the death toll in this week's magnitude 6 earthquake from 51 to 41. A statement issued by the governor's office in the eastern...

BRUSSELS — In a move likely to worsen EU ties with Israel, the European Parliament urged its 27-member states Wednesday to monitor the Israeli and Palestinian probes into alleged war crimes in...

Paris gossips were trying to sort out fact from fiction as the blogosphere raised tantalising questions about the glamorous pop 'n' politics marriage of President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. ...

Noam Shalit, father of captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, met Wednesday in Strasburg, France with European Parliament president Jerzy Buzek.The parliament will meet Thursday and is expected to vote...

Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega told a hastily called news conference. She said she had spoken to the volunteer aid worker, whose full-time job is as a court clerk in...

) - Europe on Wednesday joined the United States in formally seeking to ban trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, the king of Japanese sushi and sashimi, in a move that has angered Tokyo. Ambassadors from...

(TALLINN) - Estonian authorities are planning to ban corporal punishment for children, a wide-spread practice in the former Soviet republic in the Baltics which is now a member of the European...

Strasbourg - NATO's tactical nuclear weapons in Europe are a "strategic anachronism" that needs to be gradually eliminated in cooperation with Russia, the European Parliament said in a resolution...

Berlin - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon called on Wednesday for strong economic governance within the European Union (EU), to complement a possible IMF-style "European Monetary Fund". Fillon...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama stood with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou this week and pledged that the United States would work with its ally, even as Greece's enormous debts sparked...

PARIS - She is Europe's most powerful woman. But that's just in theory. Just 100 days into her job as the European Union's first foreign affairs chief, Baroness Ashton has been variously...

Shrink HAVANA - A Cuban dissident on a 14-day hunger strike to demand the release of ailing political prisoners has refused a Spanish offer of asylum, saying yesterday that he is determined to...

Catholic authorities in Germany have announced two major abuse investigations — one into the renowned choir once led by Pope Benedict XVI's brother and another into what everyone, including the...

Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who drew the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, has a 100,000-dollar bounty on his head from an al-Qaida-linked...

Small companies may be exempted from having to draw up and lodge annual accounts, after MEPs approved changes to European Union rules.Politicians say the policy will cut red tape and help firms be...

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Boris A. Berezovsky , a self-exiled Russian tycoon, won a libel suit in London on Wednesday against a Russian satellite broadcaster that had linked him to the murder in 2006...

London - Two women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father, bearing him seven children over 25 years, were given a formal apology by child protection agencies on Wednesday for...

Rome - Italian police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States launched a joint swoop on a Cosa Nostra clan based in Sicily on Wednesday, arresting 20 people in Palermo, New York...

Lady Ashton has caused tension by promising to review calls for a controversial EU military planning HQ in Brussels. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA Britain's EU foreign and security policy chief...

Gaza Strip, saying its blockade is worsening the humanitarian crisis there. The resolution backed the findings of a U.N.-appointed expert panel chaired by South African...

Mobster Madness In real life and on the screen, Americans are fascinated by the Mob. Find out more about actual dons and their fictional counterparts. (AP) Italian police say several Mafia suspects...