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A mysterious group calling for the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan claimed responsibility on Tuesday for planting five sticks of dynamite in a large department store in central Paris, the French Interior Ministry said.
Police found the dynamite in the Printemps department store on the posh Boulevard Haussmann after a...
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Polish and US officials planned to sign a deal Wednesday to station US missile interceptors in Poland, fuelling conflict with Russia in a region once dominated by Moscow.
Poland agreed last week to host part of the US missile shield in return for military aid, including a battery of Patriot air defence missiles in Poland, capping more...
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In an attempt to prove its commitment to halt its nuclear
weapons program, North Korea destroyed a water cooling tower that was part of
its Yongbyon nuclear plant where it processed weapon-grade plutonium.
The move comes a day after Kim Jong II’s regime submitted a
detailed inventory of nuclear plants and materials, which was...
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Melbourne, (dpa) - Lindsay Davenport will keep her tennis career alive at age 32 after entering the 2009 Australian Open, organisers announced on Thursday,
The Californian had been on the fence about her future in recent months, last playing at the US Open and losing early.
But after pondering her situation with her husband over...
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 After a wining a second straight final at Roland Garros just two weeks ago against Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal feels that at this edition of the Wimbledon it’s his turn to make history.This would be the Spaniard’s first Grand Slam title away from Roland Garros."Clay, hard or on grass," Nadal said to the Associated Press....
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Zimbabwe on Thursday declared the cholera outbreak that has claimed at least 565 lives a national emergency and appealed for international aid to tackle the crisis.
Health Minister David Parirenyatwa told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa: "We are expecting the international community to chip in with assistance so that the pandemic...
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Zimbabwe has declared the cholera outbreak that has claimed close to 600 lives a national emergency, and appealed for international aid to immediately tackle the epidemic, Health Minister David Parirenyatwa confirmed Thursday.
Parirenyatwa told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa: "We are expecting the international community to chip...
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 Kenya's opposition rejected Friday the offer of talks from the
country's controversial new President Mwai Kibaki, press reports said.
There would be no dialogue based on Kibaki's conditions, a
spokesman for the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) told Britain's BBC.
The ODM is relying on international mediators to resolve the power...
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Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl soared to a stunning Four Hills ski-jumping triumph when he again left the pre-tournament favourites in his wake to clinch the title on Tuesday.
Loitzl had the 25,000-strong home crowd in Bischofshofen in raptures with huge jumps of 142.5 metres and 141.5 metres to complete a hat-trick of victories in the...
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Finnish women skiers Aino Kaisa Saarinen and Virpi Kuitunen are favourites in this season's Tour de Ski in the absence of Swedish title holder Charlotte Kalla, while the men's race appears wide open.
Lukas Bauer of the Czech Republic has not been as dominant as last year which raises doubts whether he can defend his title at the third...
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Remarks by Pope Benedict XVI suggesting that safeguarding "human ecology" - intended as the concept of men and women created as distinct beings by God - is as important as "protecting tropical forests" have angered gay rights activists.
The Vatican did not immediately comment Tuesday on the remarks made by the...
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Austrian incest suspect Josef Fritzl tried to make money from his crimes by selling his police interrogation transcripts to British tabloid newspapers, the German weekly Stern reports in its latest edition, to be published Tuesday.
Fritzl, 73, stands accused of imprisoning and raping his daughter, Elisabeth Fritzl, for 24 years in a...
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French Defence Minister Herve Morin on Thursday denied a media report that Paris was preparing to deploy reinforcements to Afghanistan to comply with the wishes of US president-elect Barack Obama to carry out a military "surge" there.
Morin told journalists in Paris that no plan to reinforce French forces in Afghanistan was...
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The French government is preparing to deploy reinforcements to Afghanistan to comply with the wishes of US president-elect Barack Obama to carry out a military "surge" there, the online edition of the daily Liberation reported on Thursday.
The new deployment is likely to consist of several hundred soldiers and will...
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Bayern Munich goalkeeper Michael Rensing has dismissed criticism of his performances from club president Franz Beckenbauer as nonsense amid speculation that the Bundesliga champions may be looking to sign a new man between the posts.
"His criticism is nonsense," Rensing told Thursday's edition of the Bild daily.
Earlier...
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A court in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Thursday ruled that a company on the island of La Reunion must pay French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy 40,000 euros (58,400 dollars) in damages for having used her nude photo on a line of shopping bags, French media reported.
The court found that the Pardon company had used...
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A court in Saint-Denis on the island of La Reunion ruled on Thursday that a local company must pay French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy 40,000 euros (58,400 dollars) in damages for having used her nude photo on a line of shopping bags, French media reported.
The court found that the Pardon company had used Bruni-Sarkozy's image...
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French police have found five sticks of dynamite that had been planted in a large department store in central Paris, the online edition of the daily Le Figaro reported Tuesday, citing the Interior Ministry.
However, the ministry said that the dynamite sticks were not connected and lacked fuses, and could therefore not have...
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France's First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is going to court to prevent the sale of a shopping bag adorned with a photo of her in the nude, the online edition of the weekly Le Point reported on Friday.
Bruni-Sarkozy's attorney, Thierry Herzog, said the bag - which is made by the Pardon company based on the island of La Reunion -...
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Hockenheim could continue to host Formula One races if the German government pledged to support it, the circuit's top manager said Friday.
"The Formula One race is a mega-event, something like a football World Cup. The federal government could do something for it," Karl- Josef Schmidt, CEO of the Hockenheimring GmbH...
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This year's Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre confirmed Thursday that he will compete in the 2009 Giro d'Italia before defending his Tour crown.
"The Giro is my first objective of the season and when I ride, it won't be just as a training exercise," said the Spaniard, who will be riding with the new Cervelo Test...
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Fourteen suspect members of al-Qaeda were arrested in Brussels on Thursday, just hours before European Union heads of state and government were due to meet in the Belgian capital, media reports said.
The arrests were the result of 16 early morning raids involving more than 240 policemen in Brussels and Liege.
Police sources said...
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French authorities were wary of violence spilling over from Greek youth protests as thousands of secondary-school students protested Thursday throughout France against a proposed education reform plan.
Some 3,500 students took to the streets in the western city of Rennes, while in Brest youths tossed stones at police, who responded...
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A book of wizarding fairytales by Harry Potter- author Joanne K. Rowling went on sale across the globe Thursday - designed to thrill millions of fans and to raise funds for a children's charity.
The Tales Of Beedle The Bard, the first new book from the author since Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, her 7th and last in the series,...
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The central bank of the Baltic nation of Latvia has been quick to clamp down on devaluation rumours surrounding the national currency, the lat, in recent weeks. So it might be expected to react with fury to the notion that 22 lats could really be worth one lat.
However, in this case, swift justice is unlikely in this case, as the...
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Swedish heavy-vehicle maker Scania is planning to close its plants for a month as of December 22 over a drop in demand, reports said Wednesday.
Scania's production stop would last from December 22 to January 19, Scania spokesman Hans-Ake Danielsson told the online edition of Sodermanlands Nyheter.
The vehicle maker has suffered a...
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TSG Hoffenheim are playing almost perfect football going into Friday's Bundesliga topper at Bayern Munich, according to their sponsor Dietmar Hopp.
But Hopp, 68, a German billionaire co-founder of software giants SAP and former striker at the club, won't be on hand for the hyped game as he is on holiday in Florida.
Tensions between...
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TSG Hoffenheim are playing almost perfect football going into Friday's Bundesliga topper at Bayern Munich, according to their sponsor Dietmar Hopp.
But Hopp, 68, a German billionaire co-founder of software giants SAP and former striker at the club, won't be on hand for the hyped game as he is on holiday in Florida.
Tensions...
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Spain are keen to show the world that their triumph at Euro 2008 was no flash in the pan.
That's why they are desperate to do well in next June's Confederations Cup, the draw for which will be held on 22 November in Johannesburg, South Africa.
This will be Spain's first participation in the elite tournament, now in its eighth...
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French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has threatened to nationalize any French bank receiving emergency government aid that does not extend loans to businesses, the online edition of the daily Le Figaro reported on Monday.
Interviewed for a television program to be broadcast late Monday, Fillon said, "If we feel that the banks...
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The highly respected French weekly L'Express on Monday protested the Moroccan government's ban of its latest issue on the grounds that it insulted the Islamic religion.
L'Express assistant editor-in-chief Christian Makarian said he "could not understand" last Friday's decision by the Moroccan information minister to...
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The inaugural Winter Youth Olympics in 2012 will take place in Innsbruck or Kuopio, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Monday.
The IOC said in a press release that the Austrian town of Innsbruck and Finland's Kuopio were picked by the IOC executive board after an evaluation committee report. Lillehammer (Norway) and...
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The French government will establish an investment fund to support the country's strategic enterprises affected by the economic crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday in the city of Annecy.
The fund will make available loans to struggling companies in exchange for shares, which will be sold, presumably at a profit, once...
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Germany's biggest newspaper group, Axel Springer, said Thursday it was launching a Chinese online edition of its car magazine Auto Bild.
The site, www.autobild.com.cn, is to carry blogs, reader forums, photo series and videos about new cars for the "the world's second biggest automotive market," the company said in...
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There's a decidedly Italian flavour to this year's International Rome Film Festival - the third time the event is being held, but the first under the city's new, centre-right mayor.
Before his election in April, Gianni Alemanno campaigned on a ticket which included a pledge to sweep the Festival's red carpet clean of...
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Midfielder Torsten Frings is the latest Germany player toying with retirement, after being benched in the last two matches because coach Joachim Loew now longer guarantees anyone a place in the starting 11.
"I am really thoughtful, retiring is more and more on my mind," Frings told Friday's edition of the Bild daily.
The...
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A court-appointed psychiatrist has determined that Austrian incest suspect Josef Fritzl was sane when he raped, impregnated and imprisoned his daughter, Austrian newspaper Der Standard wrote in its Tuesday edition.
Police discovered last spring that Fritzl, 73, had kept his daughter Elisabeth Fritzl in a cellar under his house in...
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Bayern Munich general manager Uli Hoeness sees the German Bundesliga holding firm against the global economic crisis.
Hoeness was quoted in Friday's edition of the Bild newspaper as saying that German football is well off even though income may drop.
"I believe that German football has less to worry than other countries,"...
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Brazilian striker Ronaldo told an Italian newspaper that he is planning his comeback from a knee injury and dreaming of participating in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
The 32-year-old, who is the all-time World Cup top scorer with 15 goals, was quoted in Friday's edition of Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport daily as saying that he...
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The Spanish edition of the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia on Thursday erroneously said French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio had died of a heart attack on hearing that he had won the literature Nobel Prize.
"On hearing the news, because of the surprise, he suffered a heart attack and was taken in critical condition to the...
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Juergen Klinsmann's job as Bayern Munich coach is not endangered by the latest poor results, chairman Karl-heinz Rummenigge said.
Defying mounting criticism on the former Germany helmsman Klinsmann, Rummenigge insisted in Tuesday's edition of the Bild daily that the club is ready to be patient with Klinsmann after a major structural...
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Germany's finance sector reached agreement early Friday on the details of a planned multibillion-euro bail-out for Germany's ailing mortgage lender Hypo Real Estate, sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The talks at the German Bundesbank headquarters lasted 12 hours, and revolved around how much each participant would contribute...
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An agreement was signed Friday formalizing the existing political cooperation Between NATO and the United Nations, NATO spokesman James Appathurai said.
The paper was signed on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York by the secretary generals of both organizations, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer for NATO and Ban Ki Moon for the...
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Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is welcome to join next year's edition of the famous race, Tour organizers said Thursday.
"If nothing happens in the next few months, there is nothing that speaks against Astana's participation," Tour director Christian Prudhomme said.
Armstrong, 37, announced in New York...
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World number one Rafael Nadal faces Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic when Davis Cup finalist Spain hosts Serbia in the first round of the 2009 edition of the tennis team event.
Tuesday's draw in Madrid also gave the other finalists, Argentina, a home tie, against the Netherlands.
Being the top seeds next year, Argentina and...
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He Pingping, the world's smallest man, met up with long-legged Svetlana Pankratova in London's Trafalger Square Tuesday, posing for a photograph showing him standing up comfortably between her legs.
Pingping, 20, from Inner Mongolia, is just 74.61 centimetres tall - a result of his being born with a condition known as primordial...
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Deutsche Bank is to pay up to 2.7 billion euros (3.8 billion dollars) for a stake of almost 30 per cent in Deutsche Postbank, valuing it at some 9 billion euros, according to reports in Friday's German press.
According to information received by Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, Deutsche Post, Postbank's parent company, would receive...
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Fifty-six per cent of Poles believe Russia will re- build its empire or already has imperial might because it can sway Europe and the US, according to a poll published on Monday in the Polish edition of Newsweek.
Out of 813 people taking part in the survey, a quarter said Russia's return to power was "impossible," while 19...
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Sweden's hopes of clinching at least one gold medal at the Beijing Olympics rest on the shoulders of a 42-year-old table tennis player.
Jorgen Persson, who made his Olympic debut 20 years ago, is due to play in the semi-final Saturday against China's Wang Hao.
The odds are stacked against Persson.
"The World No. 1, and a...
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Copenhagen - and Denmark - can forget about trying to organize the Olympic Games, the mayor of Copenhagen said Thursday during a visit to Beijing.
"After the Games in Athens four years ago many thought: Maybe Copenhagen as host city. But after what I have seen here in Beijing, I have to say it is out of the question," Ritt...
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Hamburg midfielder Rafael van der Vaart is
set to join Spanish champions Real Madrid after both clubs were close
Monday to agreeing a transfer deal. SV Hamburg press
spokesman Joern Wolf told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa the transfer had
not been completely sealed but 'we hope to confirm it in the course of
the afternoon.' ...
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Thinner, a bit greyer and older, but otherwise
the same old Bosnian Serb warlord. Still living in the past and
rambling about conspiracy theories. Don't come back to Serbia, ever.
Comment from Serbs on Radovan Karadzic's first appearance before the
UN war crimes tribunal display little nostalgia. Belgrade coffee shops
and...
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A worldwide search for a 'priceless'
Shakespearean treasure stolen from a university library in Britain 10
years ago has led to the arrest of a man in Britain, police said
Friday. Police in Durham, north-east England, said a
51-year-old man was arrested during a raid on a house in nearby
Sunderland, following a tip-off from staff...
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 Baltic leaders continued on Friday to celebrate joining the Schengen
common European visa zone following its midnight expansion to include
nine new members.
"The date, December 21, 2007 ... put an end to talks about new and
old Europe," said Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves during a
visit to the southern Estonian...
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The wife of a British man who had gone missing for over five years in a
presumed drowning accident with his canoe was arrested Sunday on her
return to Britain, the Daily Mirror reported in its online edition.
The tabloid said Anne Darwin was arrested on her arrival on a flight from Miami.
The Daily Mirror has secured the...
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 A French judge on Wednesday ruled that there was enough evidence to
open an investigation against former president Jacques Chirac for
corruption, a spokeswoman for a Paris court said.
Following several hours of questioning on Wednesday, the judge,
Xaviere Simioni, placed Chirac under formal investigation on the charge
of...
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 Canonical presented on Monday the next version of the Ubuntu Linux desktop, also introducing a server edition of Ubuntu 8.10 that includes improvements in virtualization, system management and Java development. As users have been accustomed, the software is free and will be available for download on October the 30th. One important...
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At least six major central banks pumped billions of dollars of extra credit into financial markets Thursday amid fears that this week's crisis was drying up liquidity.
The European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt said its dollar funding operations would more than double from the existing 50 billion dollars to 110 billion...
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Borussia Dortmund left back Dede hopes to return to German football action in January from a severe knee injury.
The Brazilian Dede told Friday's edition of the Ruhr-Nachrichten daily that he is recovering well from tearing the cruciate ligament in his knee in in early August.
"The knee is great. I want to resume training in...
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The appointment of football legend Diego Maradona to the post of coach to Argentina's national team coach was met with cautious surprise by fans in the football-crazy South American country.
While Maradona's past talent as a footballer is never questioned, many are casting doubts on his ability to coach the senior team, based on his...
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Midfielder Torsten Frings is the latest Germany player toying with retirement as coach Joachim Loew now longer guarantees anyone a place in the starting 11.
"I am really thoughtful, retiring is more and more on my mind," Frings told Friday's edition of the Bild daily.
The 31-year-old from Werder Bremen was a key player in...
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Joachim Loew should renew his contract as Germany coach beyond the 2010 World Cup, team manager Oliver Bierhoff said.
"I would wish for that. Consistency like in the days of Sepp Herberger and Helmut Schoen would be good for the team, and for the DFB (German football federation) as well," Bierhoff told Wednesday's edition of...
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Champions Bayern Munich visit Hanover 96 on Saturday for a meeting of last weekend's big Bundesliga losers.
Munich crashed 5-2 at home against Werder Bremen while Hanover were trounced 4-0 at Bayer Leverkusen.
The holders Munich recovered in midweek to beat Nuremberg 2-0 in the second round of the German cup, with French star...
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Former Germany and Bayern Munich goalkeepers Oliver Kahn and Sepp Maier have sprung to the defence of the under-fire new Munich man between the posts, Michael Rensing.
"Leave Michael alone - He will make it!" Maier told Tuesday's edition of the local Abendzeitung daily.
Kahn, in an interview with mass circulation paper...
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On the eve of Wednesday's World Cup qualifying match against England, at least ten members of Croatia's national football squad ordered luxury gold-plated Bibles worth over 2,000 euros each (2,830 dollars), Zagreb media have reported.
The Bibles are reported to be in Croatian and in a limited edition of just 2,000 copies. Each copy...
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On the eve of Wednesday's World Cup qualifying match against England, at least ten members of Croatia's national football squad ordered luxury gold-plated bibles worth over 2,000 euros each (2,830 dollars), Zagreb media have reported.
The bibles are reported to be in Croatian and in a limited edition of just 2,000 copies. Each copy...
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. said on Wednesday that
they would remove the comic book “Memin Pinguin” from its shelves after
receiving complaints the popular Mexican character was a racist depiction of
blacks, Reuters reported.
The main character, Meimin Pinguin who originally
was created by Alberto Cabrera in 1943 and later drawn by...
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 Viagra may protect the hearts of people with a common form
of muscular dystrophy, a study suggests. A team of researchers showed that the
administration of sildenafil, the active ingredient in drug maker Pfizer Inc's
Viagra, to mice with an animal version of Duchenne muscular dystrophy protects
their heart.
This study was led by...
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 The eve of the election brought the highest ratings on Monday during the two-hour special edition of Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008. According to Nielsen estimations, NBC won most viewers with ages between 18 and 49. Excluding the Olympics, the network won the first place in ratings on the night before the elections.14.4...
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 The Republican Party candidate for the presidential elections seems to not have finished his work of convincing the American people that he is the right leader for them. The presidential elections will take place in three days and John McCain has decided to appear on “Saturday Night Live” for one more time. After Barack Obama had so much...
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 American television’s source of inspiration
for this summer is Japan,
Japanese game shows such as “Endurance,” “Hole in the Wall,” and “Human Tetris,”
to be more specific.
On Tuesday, ABC is airing premieres of “Wipeout”
and “I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” with a domestic edition of “Hole in the
Wall” coming this fall on Fox,...
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 American television journalist and lawyer, best known for his role as the moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Prees” Sunday talk show, Tim Russert collapsed at the offices of WRC-TV, which houses the Washington, D.C. bureau of NBC News where he was the Bureau Chief, while prerecording a segment for the Sunday edition of “Meet the Press.” He was...
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 “Idol” and “Star” shows move to NBC, with
new plans. After five misplaced seasons on the USA Network, the country crooner
competition moves to a new broadcast network, NBC, for its next season,
starting tonight.
Although there are voices saying that the
show copies “American Idol,” country star John Rich says that the...
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 ABC announced Tuesday it will add one new scripted series in
fall and a new game show, the Spokesman Review reports. David E. Kelley’s new
drama “Life on Mars” is about a police officer transported back to 1973.
ABC is also picking up the canceled NBC comedy “Scrubs” and the
second new series, “Opportunity Knocks,” produced by...
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 The music industry has a new favorite, young Miley Cyrus.
She’s popular among preteens, teens and parents, and she’s also becoming one of
the paps’ favorites. Miley has earned huge success with the “Hannah Montana”
show, her 3-D movie and performed impeccably at her sold-out concert-tour.
Besides all these accomplishments, Miley...
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 CBS’ “Big Brother” drew the fury of Autism United, demanding
a public apology.
“Big Brother” contestant Adam forgot about politically
correctness or even about the mission of his job when he made an insensitive
remark during the last week’s episode of the reality show. The comment
immediately engendered public and organizations’...
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 The New York City Opera announced on Sunday that it commissioned
the Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Charles Wuorinen to create an opera based
on the 1997 short story “Brokeback Mountain,” by Annie Proulx,
that the source of the film of 2005, directed by Ang Lee and
starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, the New York
Times...
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It is a very dirty job to have a look at a person’s life and concentrate it
in half page or in a box of DVDs. What do we know after all about Clint Eastwood? We have all seen at least one of
his movies – maybe in which he played, maybe one he directed. We have all chosen afterwards one side – whether we like him or not....
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 Vengeance is also available on DVD!
To be more precise, we are talking about Tim Burton’s movie
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street” or the vengeance of Benjamin Barker, who has
been in a prison colony for 15 years under false charges and now returns to
London. Barker prepares his revenge against the man who tore...
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 Globalization is not felt only in the economic and social
field, but in the movie industry as well, as the Academy Awards ceremony last
night demonstrated.
We were accustomed that the leading artists at the Oscars to
be the US
talents. Well, it’s a stereotype we should get rid of, as the last night
ceremony acknowledged the...
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 Ladies and gentlemen, the Cesar Award for best actress is …
Marion Cotillard! Well, that’s not quite what French legend Alain Delon said,
his real words were “And the César goes to ... The kid Marion,” but that was
our way of introducing the winner.
The French cinematographic industry recognized the
outstanding performance of...
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