A freight train carrying deadly chemicals has crashed into a parked empty locomotive in the United States. Eight people have been killed, seven of

Thailand has denied reports that bodies of non-Asians have been buried in mass graves where hundreds of victims of the tragedy have been interred.

Campaigning for the Palestinan presidency is drawing to an end a day ahead of Sunday’s election. Mahmoud Abbas is the front runner in the race to

European Union Foreign ministers have held emergency talks in Brussels to advance the bloc’s response to the Asian tsunami disaster

Northern Ireland’s police chief has said he believes the IRA was behind one of the UK’s biggest ever bank robberies. The announcement is likely to

A Russian transport plane loaded up by German troops and bound for Indonesia – just one example of what has become a truly global effort to help the

Just two days away from what appears to be certain victory, Mahmoud Abbas has been campaigning in Nablus to succeed the late Yasser Arafat as

A “Visa Information System” (VIS) for the 25 will use biometric information by 2007, to increase the EU’s internal security and to curtail illegal

Incredible tales of survival continue to surface from the waters of death. One 10-year-old Indian boy climbed up a tree when the tidal wave crashed

On the 20th of January 1996, after more than a quarter of a century of Israelioccupation, Palestinians were called to the booths to elect a new

Alitalia’s cabin crews have staged a snack strike or pannini protest on the airline’s European flights. Passengers were left hungry and thirsty as

Unemployment figures remained unchanged in the euro zone countries in October and November 2004.According to the European statistics office Eurostat

With OPEC members having got used to high oil prices, at least one of them – Iran – is pushing for the producers’ cartel to cut output in order to

Employers in the United States added 137,000 jobs in December, that was less than the 175,000 that economists had predicted. But

Television adverts on the European constitution in Spain have begun preparing the country for a referendum on the charter on February 20. They’ll be