2010-11-26

Azerbaijan is better known for its offshore oil than for its high-tech achievements. The country’s desire to change all that though was

The radioactivity levels of an atomic dump in Germany have been thoroughly checked after findings that residents in the area were shown to have

Brazilian security forces are tightening their grip on a violence-hit shanty town in Rio de Janeiro. A show of military might in Vila Cruzeiro

Portugal’s belt-tightening budget for next year has been approved by parliament, paving the way for public sector wage and welfare cuts and

The Arena military base under Italian command is part of International Security Assistance Force operations in western Afghanistan. It is in a

Our planet is warming up. But to what degree will the climate change in the future? In order to find out, scientists are focussing on 50 so-called

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the OSCE, is convening for its first summit for 11 years. It’s being held on the first two

After years of outright denial, Russia has finally admitted that Stalin directly ordered the mass execution of Polish officers during the Second

Launching its 50th animated film , Disney takes on the classic Grimm Brothers tale of Rapunzel. Long-haired Princess Rapunzel has spent her entire

Welsh sensation Duffy is back with with one of the most eagerly anticipated releases of the year. “Endlessly”, her second album, is a collection

Saudi Arabia has arrested 149 people suspected of having links to al Qaeda over the last 8 months. Guns and the equivalent of more than 450,000

A Soyuz capsule carrying two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut back to earth from the International Space Station has landed safely in

Sony is making a fresh bid to enter Japan’s electronic book market with an online bookstore with 20,000 titles, and an e-book reader that goes on

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is under fire for his indecision and failure to keep the public informed following Tuesday’s attack by North

Equipment has arrived to begin clearing a coal mine in New Zealand where 29 miners died after an explosion last week. Efforts to evacuate the

Portugal’s parliament has just passed it’s austerity budget, despite the opposition Conservatives abstaining. A raft of cuts were proposed in a bid

The European Union’s call for a UN investigation into violence in Western Sahara has provoked a mixed reaction in Morocco. At least 11 people were

The Portuguese parliament is preparing to vote on an austerity budget that will slash public sector pay by 5 per cent, freeze state pensions, cut

Despite disease and the threat of violence, the UN says Haiti’s electoral show must go on. Sunday’s presidential and legislative elections in Haiti

The three teenage boys set adrift in a small boat in the South Pacific for 50 days are back on dry land in Fiji. The boys survived on coconuts, a

North Korea has warned that US-South Korean military exercises planned for this weekend will drag the region “to the brink of war.” The US is

Snoopy, the beloved dog from the Charlie Brown cartoons has opened the Macy Thanksgiving Parade. The annual tradition in New York often draws tens

From Pakistan to Paris, political intrigue over a deadly bombing in 2002 has intensified with testimony from a former French prime minister. The

It features in perhaps James Bond’s most famous pose… now the pistol Sean Connery used in the publicity shot for the 1963 film “From Russia with

Switzerland looks set to make it easier to throw out foreigners convicted of committing crimes. A referendum is being held on Sunday. Calling for

After running street battles, police in Rio de Janeiro say they have regained control of a shanty town where drugs gangs had gathered in the face of

A Soyuz capsule carrying two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut back to earth has landed safely in Kazakhstan. Russian Mission Control said the