Hinting at tax breaks, Italian prime minister Romano Prodi in his end-of-year press conference has said addressing concerns over purchasing power

Serbia says it is putting carmaker Zastava up for sale in April. Belgrade announced it would reveal its reserve price then. The producer of the Yugo

The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a gun and bomb attack. The assassination happened after a rally in the city of

It might be days or a mere matter of hours but it now seems Clara Rojas and her child born in captivity will be freed by Colombian rebels. The former

After a brief pause for Christmas, the presidential campaigns in the US are back in full gear ahead of the country’s first primary election. All eyes

Kenya, east Africa’s most stable and economically successful state, is voting in elections seen as a test of its democratic credentials. Queues built

Serbia has threatened to sever diplomatic ties with Europe and the United States in the escalating row over Kosovo. Last night parliament in Belgrade

The Serbian parliament has said no to EU or NATO membership if it is at the price of Kosovan independence. After hours of debate MP’s voted

More than 14 million Kenyans are eligible to cast their ballots today in presidential and parliamentary elections. Mobs in Kenya’s opposition

Six French aid workers have been sentenced to eight years of hard labour each after a court in Chad found them guilty of trying to kidnap 103

French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s vacation trip to Egypt, paid for by billionaire friend Vincent Bolloré, is provoking growing controversy in

The waiting may soon be over for the families of a group of Colombian hostages. They heard Venezelan leader Hugo Chavez announce a breakthrough on