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Werner Faymann, expected to be chosen as Austrian Social Democratic leader later Friday, said he is focussing on social issues to win voters and alienated party members.
At his party's convention in Linz, Transport Minister Faymann sought to sharpen his social policy profile by announcing tax cuts in 2009 and by seeking support from...
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The military junta which overthrew Mauritania's government must return that government to power for any future elections to count as valid, officials in Brussels said Thursday after coup leaders promised a poll.
The EU's executive, the European Commission, has "taken note" of the promise, but insists that "those...
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is hoping to shore up his flagging political fortunes by offering videos of his speeches and media appearances on his office's own TV channel, to be called Number10TV.
The new online channel, accessible via the website of 10, Downing Street, the seat of the British government, will offer...
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 NATO states's representatives will meet in the Romanian capital of Bucharest from April 2
to 4 and diplomats will focus on the issue of Afghanistan. They are expected to
work on a new strategy for Afghanistan.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Tuesday that France may send a few hundred troops to Afghanistan. France...
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 Dmitry Medvedev crushed his opponents and won the presidential elections to become Russia’s new president. However, his landslide victory was overshadowed by rigging accusations.Medvedev, formerly Vladimir Putin's chief of staff and also the Chairman of Gazprom's board of directors, was voted by 70.2 percent of voters. The nearest of his...
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 French President Nicolas Sarkozy
does not hesitate to fight back in public when someone is stepping on his
shoes. The recent public outburst when Sarkozy told someone to “get lost” at
the agricultural fair in Paris
was recorded by a freelance cameraman and it has become an Internet hit.
The incident occurred Saturday at
the...
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Russian prosecutors have opened an investigation which is expected to
disqualify presidential opposition candidate Mikhail Kasyanov for
allegedly forging the signatures he needed to run, Interfax news agency
reported Tuesday.
Former prime minister Kasyanov said any move to block his joining the ballot was a case of "political...
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 French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his girlfriend, pop singer and
former supermodel Carla Bruni, will get married soon, the weekly Le
Journal du Dimanche reported on Sunday.
According to the paper, which cites anonymous sources, the wedding
is to take place February 8 or 9, just two weeks after Sarkozy
celebrates his 53rd...
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 Young Britons overwhelmingly back the monarchy and would like to see
Prince William to be the next monarch, of whose girlfriend Kate
Middleton they also wholeheartedly approve, an opinion poll showed
Friday.
A poll of 1,004 young people, aged between 18 and 24, showed that
nearly 70 per cent want to keep the royal family, even...
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 The deadline for all talks on the future status of Kosovo has expired,
and majority Albanian leaders said Monday they plan to launch talks
leading to the province's independence and international recognition
"very, very soon."
"December 10 marks the end of all negotiations for the status of
Kosovo ... (and it)...
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 Russian President Vladimir Putin told an audience of ardent supporters
Wednesday that the main challenge faced by the nation going into the
December 2 parliamentary elections was "to ensure the continuity" of
the current policy course.
"We should do everything possible to resolve this problem ... that
it is...
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 Kosovo's probable new political leader, Hashim Thaci, does not expect
compromise from Serbia over the breakaway province's looming unilateral
declaration of independence.
In an interview published Monday by Germany's Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Thaci said he would respect the agenda set by
international mediators up to...
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 The former Kosovo Albanian political representative Hashim Thaci
declared victory Sunday in Kosovo's parliamentary polls and immediately
repeated the promise that independence from Serbia is coming shortly.
"A new era is starting. The citizens of Kosovo have sent a message
to the world that we are a democratic country and...
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 Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was Tuesday on track to
secure a third term in office, two exit polls released by Denmark's
leading broadcasters said.
Both exit polls suggested Rasmussen's centre-right minority
government of Liberals and Conservatives along with their parliamentary
backers the Danish People's Party...
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 Provisional, but conclusive results of the Slovenian presidential
election on Monday confirmed the victory of the centre-left candidate,
Danilo Turk.
The latest figures show Turk claimed 68.26 per cent of the votes in
the run-off Sunday, to easily defeat the conservative opponent, Lojze
Peterle, with 31.74.
The up to 45,000...
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 Six years ago, extravagant Swiss-born millionaire Bernard
Weber initiated the New7Wonders campaign, amid criticism from experts and the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
People all around the globe were supposed to cast their votes
through the internet or cell phone text message for the new seven...
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 According to a new poll by research institute Sentio published on Monday, the opposition to joining the European Union is still strong.About 41.8 per cent were in favor of beginning negotiations to join the EU bloc, while 48.2 per cent were against it and some 10 per cent of those questioned were undecided about the matter. The results...
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Today, Belgians from the nation's six million Dutch-speaking Flemings from the north and the 4.5 million Francophones from Wallonia's south began voting at 8 a.m., with polls favoring Christian Democrats who have been on a two-term hiatus.A recent poll by TNS predicted that the Flemish Christian Democratic CD&V/NVA would surge from...
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 Recent polls conducted among Czechs clearly indicate the US plan to build a radar station in the country is not welcomed, a discouraging indicator for President George W Bush.Even if the government has the authority to decide if whether the Czech Republic will host foreign troops on its soil, the collectivity’s opinion is bound to weight...
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An overwhelming number of Israelis think Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert was right to announce his intention to step down
from the premiership, a poll published Friday revealed. A
massive 91 per cent of respondents in the poll in the Ma'ariv daily
said Olmert made the right decision when he said Wednesday night that
he would resign...
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 The latest attacks carried out by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip led to the killing of at least 20 Palestinians, including four children aged between 9 and 16. At least six Palestinian militants were killed in the fire exchange and five Israeli troops suffered minor wounds after tanks entered three areas in northern Gaza.The...
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 At least six Palestinian militants were killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in air strikes.Five of them died as the vehicle they were in was attacked from the air near the southern town of Khan Younis. All of them were reportedly senior members of the Islamist Hamas movement that controls the Gaza Strip. Locals said they had just...
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 Israel said Friday that it had sent a message to US Ambassador Richard
Jones in Tel Aviv, reassuring him that it will not build a new Jewish
neighbourhood in a northern area of occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel, meanwhile, denied that it was holding indirect contacts
with the radical Islamic Hamas movement over a truce in Gaza, as...
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 Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, the former Israeli Prime Minister between 1996-1999, reaffirmed his position as the Likud leader in party primaries. Netanyahu got a staggering 73 percent of votes cast for him and two other opponents, but only about 40 percent of party members have voted.The other two were Moshe Feiglin, the leader...
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 Pervez Musharraf doesn’t want to leave the leadership of Pakistan and would run for a new mandate in the autumn elections, the Pakistani President said Friday.Also, Musharraf wants the elections to be held without the participation or influence of the former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, which are currently in exile.He...
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Despite South African President Thabo Mbeki's
assessment that the stalled talks between Zimbabwe's political parties
taking place in Pretoria were going 'very well' there were signs
Tuesday that the current impasse could drag on. In a
characteristically positive assessment of the situation, Mbeki, the
regional mediator in...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai
was in South Africa Tuesday for talks with negotiators from his
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on the suspension of talks with
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF. Tsvangirai's spokesman
George Sibotshiwe confirmed that the MDC leader was in South Africa,
where multi-party talks...
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The red carpet was rolled out at a hotel in Zimbabwe's capital Harare Monday ahead of the signing, scheduled for later, by President Robert Mugabe and opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai of a key agreement on talks.The city's Rainbow Towers Hotel was the neutral venue chosen for the signing ceremony,...
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The amount of ink spilt on Nelson Mandela,
one of the world's favourite statesman, is bewildering. Enter his name
in the book section of amazon.com website and you get 12,417 entries.
From a plethora of biographies of the anti-apartheid icon, authorized
and otherwise, to collections of his favourite folktales, and...
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 According to Zimbabwe’s
opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), its leader Morgan
Tsvangirai won the presidential election with 50.3 percent of the vote. However,
the official results have not yet been released.
MDC general secretary Tendai Biti claims that the result
shows that there is no need for an...
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 Kenya's electoral commission will go before the courts this week to
have the results of the country's controversial presidential elections
reviewed, a Kenyan newspaper reported Sunday.
The ballot papers were being guarded around the clock by police,
the Sunday Nation quoted the commission's vice-chairman Kihara Muttu...
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 Kenyan opposition politicians called off what was called a
"million-man" rally Thursday to protest allegedly flawed polls which
have sparked mass rioting and violence that continued as supporters
tried to reach the gathering.
As disgruntled Kenyans fought police and condemned the so-called
flawed poll results that...
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 Rival politicians traded accusations of inciting violence Wednesday, as
unrest sparked by disputed presidential polls continued across Kenya,
leaving at least 300 people dead.
President Mwai Kibaki and defeated opposition candidate Raila
Odinga blamed each other for the brutal violence that has seen nearly
300 people killed since...
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 After a close match between opposition candidate Ernest Bai
Koroma, former minority leader in parliament and Solomon Berewa, Sierra
Leone's Vice President and candidate of the hitherto ruling Sierra Leone
People's Party for Presidential elections (SLPP), Koroma has won his second
poll and is to be the future President of Sierra...
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 Salman Rushdie, the Indian-British novelist and essayist who won the Booker Prize for his second novel “Midnight’s Children,” won a special award marking the 40’th anniversary of his novel. He also won the 25th anniversary Booker prize in 1993. The novel is an example of Rushdie’s magical realism style. The dominant theme of his novels...
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 Opponents of same-sex marriage seem to have taken a lead in campaign funding on a California referendum, according to filings from groups on both sides of the matter.Advocates of Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage, raised an estimated $3.7 million from Jan. 1 through June 30, by comparison with gay-rights advocates who went...
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama
on Tuesday said the United States must broaden its foreign policy focus
beyond Iraq, as he pledged to end the war and focus on fighting al-
Qaeda in Afghanistan, while Republican John McCain put forward his
strategy for addressing ongoing violence there.
In a speech on foreign policy in...
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama
on Tuesday said the United States must broaden its foreign policy focus
beyond Iraq, as he pledged to end the war and focus on fighting al-
Qaeda in Afghanistan, while Republican John McCain put forward his
strategy for addressing ongoing violence there.
In a speech on foreign policy in...
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A nationwide alliance of immigrant rights and
community organizations on Thursday launched a new movement aimed at
registering more than one million Latino and Asian voters ahead of
November's presidential elections. The movement, called the
We Are America Alliance (WAAA), will reach out to voters in 13 states,
which also have the...
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 The Senate gave its final consent on Wednesday regarding a
very significant development in what concerns the government’s surveillance
control, offering President George W. Bush another success in a series of harsh
and effortful conflicts with Democrats over national security matters.
The decision was taken by a vote of 69 to 28...
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A survey last year by LifeWay Research, a US
Christian think-tank, revealed that a majority of adults who said they
believed in God never went to church. The reason: 72 per cent of
non-churchgoers said they thought the church 'was full of hypocrites.'
Another survey by Barna Group, a Christian survey organization,
found that young...
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 Same-sex couples who spent years hoping for the legal right to wed finally had that opportunity as the city opened a special office in a park auditorium in West Hollywood, California, on Tuesday to issue gender-neutral marriage licenses.
Actor George Takei and his partner were among the first Californian couples to get a wedding...
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 Californian citizens will have the chance to amend the state
constitution with defining the marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
This would come as a response against a Supreme Court decision issued on May 15
which legalized the same-sex unions.
A simple majority on the November 4 ballot is sufficient to ban...
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 The pope's first trip to America is expected to bring a fresh view upon religious values. Pope Benedict XVI will deliver a positive message that will draw the attention on the truth about society's needs. One of them, probably the most important one in the eyes of the believers is the value brought by a good understanding of the...
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 This is what more than 80 percent of Americans
believe. The CBS News-New York Times poll released on Thursday revealed an
unsettling truth: 81 percent of the participants feel that “things have pretty
seriously gotten off on the wrong track.”
A year ago, only 69 percent of the respondents believed that, while in 2002...
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 Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama finally agreed on something. Both Democratic presidential candidates rejected the proposition launched by the Florida Democrats to rerun the state’s primary election by mail.The Florida Democrats made public the idea that would get them out of the failed presidential contest. Clinton won Florida primary...
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 After his alleged involvement as a client in a prostitution ring came to light, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer must answer a question to himself and the New Yorkers: to quit or not to quit?His wife Silda Wall Spitzer, who looked pretty shocked as she stood by her man’s side during his official apology, is now urging him not to renounce...
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 The Democrat Party presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and rival Barack Obama, are fighting to win the still undecided voters of Oho and Texas as, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll, the contest between the two senators is still very tight. Illinois Senator Barack Obama has a good morale after wining eleven in a...
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 With the race for the White House getting tighter, a poll
indicates that Republican candidate John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton
took the lead in New York.
The opinion poll released Tuesday comes in a time when the
presidential hopefuls brought out the heavy artillery in a bid to shore up
their party’s...
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 US presidential contender Barack Obama urged Americans Sunday to
overcome lingering barriers for black citizens, evoking the spirit of
Martin Luther King at the church where the 1960s civil rights leader
preached.
Fresh from a defeat by Hillary Clinton in a Democratic Party
preference poll, Obama stopped by the Ebenezer Baptist...
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 Favourite son Mitt Romney revived his bid for the Republican candidacy
for president Tuesday night, claiming victory in Michigan's primary
vote over his chief rival Senator John McCain.
Romney had 39 per cent of the centre-right Republican vote,
followed by 30 per cent for McCain, the Vietnam War veteran and one-
time prisoner of...
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 Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama was endorsed Thursday by
fellow US Senator John Kerry, who lost the 2004 election to President
George W Bush.
Kerry portrayed Obama, 46, as an inspirational young leader who can
bridge ideological differences, defeat political cynicism and make a
decisive break with the Bush...
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 Bill Clinton was the original "comeback kid" in New Hampshire. Now, Hillary Clinton has done it too.
Rebounding from an opening loss to black candidate Barack Obama,
the former first lady righted her White House bid with a poll-defying
primary victory Tuesday in a small state that carries a lot of early
weight in the...
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 Senator Barack Obama has taken the lead in an opinion poll published in
Tuesday's Des Moines Register ahead of the Iowa state caucus to select
a candidate from the Democratic Party for this year's US presidential
election.
Obama can expect 32 per cent of the votes in the Iowa caucus, the
newspaper reported, while current favourite...
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Americans and Europeans agree that Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton would make the best US president of the current candidates for the post, according to a poll made public on Friday.
However, the survey by the Harris Institute for France 24 television and the Paris-based International Herald Tribune found that enthusiasm...
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 US President George W Bush on Tuesday granted a traditional "pardon" to
May and Flower, the latest two turkeys to be spared ahead of the annual
Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.
"If you can't take the heat, then you're definitely going to stay
out of the kitchen," he told his feathered friends in a...
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 According to researchers for San Francisco-based nonprofit
Common Sense Media and Washington-based education foundation Cable in the
Classroom found that 85 percent of parents and legal guardians of children who
go online say they have talked to their child in the past year about how to
behave on the Internet.
They say they have...
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 President George W. Bush made a surprise visit on Monday to
the Anbar province
of Iraq. Anbar was once
the hotspot of insurgency in Iraq
but has now turned into a good example for all anti al –Qaeda resistance
throughout the country.
According to a press release issued by the President, a high
number of forces and US soldiers...
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 Former WMAQ-Ch. 5 reporter Amy Jacobson sued
a CBS station in Chicago,
claiming it aired a videotape of her in bathing attire at the home of a
potential news source, whose estranged wife Lisa has been missing since April
2007.
Jacobson claims the CBS station WBBM-TV
broadcast the tape “with the sole motive of boosting its...
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 The Oprah Winfrey Show, America’s most
popular talk-show, has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years
and nearly 7 percent this year, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The circulation of O, The Oprah Magazine,
has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years, according to the Audit
Bureau of...
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 Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp and Oscar winner Reese
Witherspoon were selected by the US public as their favourite movie
stars at a scaled-down People's Choice Awards.
The Hollywood writers strike caused the show's organizers to revamp
its format, changing it from a live show complete with Hollywood
glamour to a...
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 Aromatherapy, homeopathy and other popular complementary
therapies are to be regulated for the first time under a government-backed
scheme to be established this year.
The new Natural Healthcare Council – which is being backed
by the Prince of Wales – will be able to strike off errant or incompetent
practitioners. It will also...
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 The The Quigley Poll, an annual survey that was first conducted in 1932, has showed that the Top Money-Making Star of 2007 was actor Johnny Depp, thanks to his performances in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.The survey is made on the cinema owners that vote for the ten motion...
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 US consumers mobbed malls and shops Friday to kick off the holiday
shopping season, but retailers forecast the lowest sales in five years
because of the slow US economy.
Chain stores nationwide opened before dawn on the day after the
Thanksgiving holiday, touting deep discounts on electronics, clothes
and thousands of other items....
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 There were big surprises Thursday when prime minister-elect Kevin Rudd
took the dust sheets off his Labor cabinet at Parliament House in
Canberra, and the Liberals he defeated in last weekend's general
election met down the corridor to pick a new leader to replace Prime
Minister John Howard.
As expected, Julia Gillard became...
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 Opinion polls Saturday showed Kevin Rudd's Labor Party maintaining its
clear lead over Prime Minister John Howard's ruling coalition with just
a week to go before Australia's November 24 general election.
Support for Labor is steady at 54 per cent with the conservatives
on 46 per cent, according to an opinion poll in The...
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 “I’m in love with an alien!” Those
were a The Kelly Family’s song’s lyrics. We’ve never heard much about that band
in the recent time and it is most likely that our kids won’t ever become their
fans. Why should we be so sure about that? One proper answer would be that the
young people today have the Internet and all this technology...
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 According to a new poll, one-third of Americans say they're
extremely stressed and about half believe their stress has gotten worse in the
past five years.
Crushed by steep housing costs and stagnant incomes, a
whopping three-quarters of adults say money and work are stressing them out, up
from 59% last year. Nearly half say...
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 According to McDonalds Corp., third-quarter net income
jumped 27% as the company benefited from its value menu.
The fast-food giant reported net income of $1.07 billion, or
89 cents a share, compared with $843.3 million, or 68 cents a share, a year
earlier.
Results included a six-cent gain from the sale of its Boston
Market...
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 George Takei of “Star Trek” with his partner Brad Altman were among the first celebrities to obtain a marriage license on the first day of same-sex weddings in California last week. Same-sex couples who hoped for a long time to obtain the legal right to wed finally had that opportunity to see their dream come true as the city opened a...
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 Beautiful model-actress Megan Fox was named the world’s
sexiest woman on Wednesday by an annual online poll, Reuters reports. The
“Transformer’s star ”Fox, 21, stole the title from actress Jessica Alba, 26,
topping online men’s magazine FHM Online’s reader poll of the 100 Sexiest Women
in the World for 2008.
Megan Fox beat out...
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 It appears that the popularity of the French President
Nicolas Sarkozy is recovering on the back of his recent visit to Britain. According
to LH2 poll in Liberation newspaper, Sarkozy’s ratings climbed to 40 percent in
March against 37 percent in February. The survey was carried out just after
Sarkozy and his model – turned – singer...
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 American Music Awards has its first nominations leaders. R&B
star Beyonce, rock band Linkin
Park, pop singer Justin
Timberlake and “American Idol” contestant Chris Daughtry homonymic band each scored
a hat-trick in this year’s nominations for the 35th edition of the AMA.
Artists that earned a pair of nominations include...
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 Burma’s
state said 22,000 people were killed by Saturday’s cyclone, the Press
Association reports. According to the state television, 10,000 died in the town
of Bogalay, in the country's Irrawaddy
delta.
Burma
foreign minister Nyan Win had told diplomats in Rangoon that thousands of people died when
Cyclone Nargis struck and...
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the 126th day of 2008 with 240 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in 1813; German political theorist Karl Marx in 1818; hatmaker John...
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