Serbian Foreign Minister Jeremic leaves for New York to discuss the Kosovo issue with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. AFP photo   |
Serbia submits a draft resolution on the independence of Kosovo to the United Nations General Assembly a week after the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, ruled that Kosovo's declaration of independence did not violate international law.
Comment 2010-07-29
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Lawmakers in Catalonia outlawed bullfighting becoming Spain's first mainland region to do so after a heated debate that pitted the rights of animals against preserving a pillar of traditional culture.
Comment 2010-07-28
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma.
Comment 2010-07-29
France has declared war on al-Qaeda, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.
Comment 2010-07-28
British Prime Minister David Cameron appealed for a new relationship between India and Britain, arguing closer ties could spark both economies, as London agreed for the first time to allow the export of nuclear technology to India.
Comment 2010-07-28
President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed that France would avenge the murder of a 78-year-old aid worker who was kidnapped and killed in the Sahara desert by al-Qaeda's North African wing.
4 Comments 2010-07-26
Queen Elizabeth II joins other proud parents starting in showing off and sharing her photo albums - and those of the House of Windsor - on the online Flickr photo site.
Comment 2010-07-25
Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia in February 2008 did not violate international law, judges at the UN's highest court have said.
18 Comments 2010-07-22
Taking the country by surprise, forensic scientists exhume what are believed to be the bodies of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena to solve the mystery of where they are truly buried.
1 Comment 2010-07-21
The world's third most wanted Nazi suspect has been charged in Germany with participation in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp and other crimes during the Third Reich, officials said.
Comment 2010-07-29
German discount supermarket chain Aldi says Theo Albrecht, its co-founder and considered one of the country's richest men, has died.
Comment 2010-07-28
Traumatized survivors of the Love Parade stampede that killed 19 people described Sunday a scene of horror, and anger that the party continued after the disaster.
5 Comments 2010-07-25
Greece and Bulgaria agreed to wait for the results of an environmental impact report on a planned oil pipeline that bypasses Turkey’s crowded Bosphorus Strait before deciding whether to scrap the plan.
1 Comment 2010-07-27
They come from around the world to have time to think, fulfill a promise or have an adventure: the grueling "Camino de Santiago" has seen an influx of pilgrims this year, a Holy Year, for a variety of reasons.
1 Comment 2010-07-25
Britain's domestic spy agency was directly involved in the rendition of a Moroccan national, illegally taken from a Belgian prison, a report published Friday has said.
Comment 2010-07-23
Kosovo's ex-prime minister Ramush Haradinaj must be retried on murder and torture charges related to the 1998-99 conflict, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal says.
Comment 2010-07-21
Scottish ministers defend their decision to free the Lockerbie bomber after renewed US anger over the release threatens to spoil the new British premier's first visit to the White House.
Comment 2010-07-21
