Your Source of Daily News...
Home - Top Stories - Business - Technology - Health - Sports - Entertainment - Internet - Oddly Enough - Politics - Lifestyle - Editorials - Most Viewed
World - USA - India - UK - Asia Pacific - Europe - Middle East - Americas - Africa
Europe News
The Large Hadron Collider experiment, designed to shed light on the cosmos, restarts after 14 months of repairs.
The military deployed intense rescue efforts to conduct house-to-house searches for people trapped in their homes.
The French Football Federation turns down the Republic of Ireland's request for a replay of their controversial World Cup play-off game.
The UK apologises to Spain after the Royal Navy uses a buoy with Spanish colours for target practice off Gibraltar.
Officials from six countries and the European Union expressed disappointment that Iran had not accepted a deal to export most of its enriched uranium.
Fingers and a tooth cut from the body of famed astronomer Galileo Galilei have been found, an Italian museum says.
A French murder suspect who hid in a cardboard box and escaped in a delivery van is recaptured after weeks on the run.
About 200 football ties are under investigation in what one Uefa official calls Europe's biggest match-fixing scandal.
The granddaughter of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini says criminals have stolen part of his brain and blood to sell on the internet.
In Rome, the archbishop of Canterbury called for clarity on the future of Catholic-Anglican dialogue.
National leaders of the European Union picked Herman Van Rompuy for the new presidency and Catherine Ashton of Britain for its foreign policy post.
A transsexual prostitute linked to a sex row involving an Italian politician is believed to have been burned to death, media report.
The new EU foreign affairs chief dismisses criticism of her appointment, saying she is the "the best person for the job".
Europe signs a $1bn deal with Nigeria, aimed at tackling corruption and promoting peace in the troubled Niger Delta.
A profile of Belgian PM Herman van Rompuy, the European Union's first permanent president.
The clinician showed that three antibiotics could be safely combined to provide a cure, providing the template for later combination therapies for cancer and AIDS.
The region that was home to the Orange Revolution of five years ago finds itself disillusioned as another presidential election nears.
Prior to a climate change meeting scheduled for Copenhagen, industrialized countries, except the United States, are offering targets to curb greenhouse gases.
A Moscow Patriarchate official called the Rev. Daniil Sysoyev a "talented missionary" whose work among Muslims, including Tatars, might have been the motive for the shooting.
Germany has adopted degree programs that will get students out of school and into the job market faster, prompting many to join street protests over the changes.
An aide to the Russian president called Ukraine's warnings of a possible gas crisis "political blackmail" on Thursday.
BRUSSELS -- Champions of European unity hoped their new president would be a continental George Washington, a brand name who could pull the European Union closer together and fulfill their dream of a strengthened role for Europe in world affairs.
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA -- Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned al-Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence.
PAKISTAN A blast early Friday killed two police officers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attacks by Islamist insurgents retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border.
Along a favored route for smuggling on the Aegean, an age-old tension between Greece, an E.U. member, and Turkey, an E.U.-hopeful, plays out.
ANTAVILIAI, LITHUANIA -- Residents of this village were mystified five years ago when tight-lipped American construction workers suddenly appeared at a mothballed riding stable here and built a large, two-story building without windows, ringed by a metal fence and security cameras.
A Russian lawyer jailed after uncovering evidence of police involvement in the theft of $230 million from the government has died in prison, officials said Tuesday, and his American partner is accusing the authorities of killing him.
IRAQ Kurdish officials threatened Tuesday to boycott the upcoming national elections in the three provinces they control in northern Iraq unless more parliament seats are allocated to the region.
ROME, Nov 16 (IPS)- World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are most impacted by the food crisis.
TRANEBJERG, Denmark, Nov 15 (Tierramérica)- On the Danish island of Samsø, a model of energy self-sufficiency, even cow's milk helps reduce emissions of climate changing gases.
ROME, Nov 16 (IPS)- Fears that the United Nations World Food Security Summit would fail to deliver effective measures to defeat hunger were borne out Monday when world leaders and government officials approved a toothless declaration on the first day.
ROME, Nov 15 (IPS)- CEDAW or the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1979.
An annual migration of sheep in the Abruzzo region assumed greater resonance as the flock passed through areas hit by the April 6 quake.
BRATISLAVA, Nov 19 (IPS)- As Slovaks mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism this week, former dissidents have lashed out at top political figures, including the prime minister, who they say are trying to paint the totalitarian regime of old in a positive light.
PRISTINA, Nov 19 (IPS)- Pictures of missing people have been hanging for years next to the gate to the fence surrounding Kosovo's parliament. Some of them have been there for so long that the features of the faces can hardly be seen anymore - a good example of how slow and painful the process of discovering the fate of the missing is.
ROME, Nov 17 (IPS)- There are two main ways the flop of this week's United Nations World Food Security Summit in Rome - which has been snubbed by the world's top leaders, has failed to deliver binding aid commitments, or to set a target date for the eradication of hunger - is being read.
PARIS, Nov 19 (IPS)- The stereotypical image of a French person is of someone wearing a beret and carrying a baguette under his arm. But can one wear a burqa and also be French? Can one prefer pitta bread to baguettes and still be French?
COPENHAGEN, Nov 20 (IPS/IFEJ)- Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
REYKJAVIK, Nov 18 (IPS/IFEJ)- After eight months of waiting, Iceland is finally back on the agenda of the IMF. The second instalment of the IMF loan was agreed at the end of last month and has now been transferred to Iceland.
ROME, Nov 18 (IPS)- The World Food Security Summit in Rome this week opened up a dispute between what may be investment in farmland to some, but is seen as land grab by others.
BERLIN, Nov 18 (IPS)- Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say.
Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president threatened Sunday to veto the country's election law unless changes are made giving Iraqis living abroad more guaranteed seats in parliament, throwing the January vote into question.
ITALY A dozen gondolas snaked down the Grand Canal on Saturday in a mock funeral procession bemoaning Venice's approach to the dreaded status of living museum, with a population now below the symbolic threshold of 60,000.
LONDON -- Buoyed by strengthening rebounds in Germany and France, the 16-nation euro zone has officially climbed out of its worst recession since World War II, fueling hopes that a lasting global recovery is beginning to take shape.
PAKISTAN A powerful car bomb exploded in front of the national intelligence agency building in the Pakistani city of Peshawar early Friday, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 30, military and intelligence officials said.
Swine flu deaths in Europe doubled in three of the last four weeks, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said Wednesday.
EU waters down new role of president
Home - Top Stories - Business - Technology - Health - Sports - Entertainment - Internet - Oddly Enough - Politics - Lifestyle - Editorials - Most Viewed
World - USA - India - UK - Asia Pacific - Europe - Middle East - Americas - Africa
Kify Domains - Kify Web Hosting - Kify Mail - Kify Shopping - Kify Forums
The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program. Send your Feedback.
© 2006 K i f y
