Copenhagen, Dec 15 (IANS) Last-minute attempts to rescue the climate summit continued here Tuesday without any sign of a breakthrough. Environment ministers from over 100 countries now have till Thursday morning to cobble together a Copenhagen Agreement, but now no one expects anything more than a patch-up job.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:30:02 -0500

Rome, Dec 16 (IANS/AKI) Massimo Tartaglia, the man held responsible for the attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Sunday may not have been operating on his own, a member of Berlusconi's People of Freedom coalition has claimed.
IANS Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:40:05 -0500

London, Dec 16 (IANS) Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan's father has urged his daughter's ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson to convince the actress to go to a rehabilitation centre.
IANS Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:40:03 -0500

Rome, Dec 16 (IANS/AKI) Italian car giant Fiat defied the economic downturn and recorded a dramatic increase in car sales across Europe in November.
IANS Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:40:02 -0500

London, Dec 16 (IANS) Hollywood star Renee Zellweger has teamed up with actor Rob Lowe and singer-actress Kristin Chenoweth for a new cancer awareness campaign.
IANS Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:20:05 -0500

London, Dec 16 (IANS) Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter Suri has been named the most fashionable child celebrity in a survey conducted by Britain's specialist kids clothing retailer Adams Childrenswear.
IANS Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:20:03 -0500

Brussels, Dec 16 (DPA) One of the lesser known aspects of the world debate on climate change is the swarm of acronyms and abbreviations it has spawned.
IANS Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:50:04 -0500

Madrid, Dec 16 (EFE) Spain will contribute to the financing of a subway system in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the Spanish industry ministry said.
IANS Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:50:02 -0500

Rome, Dec 16 (DPA) An earthquake registering 4.2 on the Richter scale Tuesday caused panic and damaged houses along the border of the Italian regions of Umbria and Tuscany.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:30:01 -0500

London, Dec 15 (IANS) 'Iron Man' star Robert Downey Jr. has revealed he was terrified about stepping into super sleuth Sherlock Holmes' shoes for Guy Ritchie's new movie because he was convinced he could never top superstar Brad Pitt's performance in the director's 2000 film 'Snatch'.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:30:02 -0500

Milan, Dec 15 (DPA) Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will have to spend a third night in hospital recovering from being hit in the face by an attacker, and will be discharged Wednesday, the premier's doctor said Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:00:03 -0500

Berlin, Dec 15 (DPA) German President Horst Koehler is to make an official visit to India and South Korea in February 2010, his office in Berlin announced Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:30:02 -0500

Copenhagen, Dec 15 (DPA) Biotech giant Monsanto won a dubious honour Tuesday when an online poll awarded it the 'Angry Mermaid' prize for what critics see as misleading lobbying on the issue of climate change.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:10:01 -0500

Brussels, Dec 15 (DPA) Rich countries have not offered developing states enough help to clinch a deal on fighting global warming, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned Tuesday as he prepared to travel to the UN climate talks in Copenhagen.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:50:02 -0500

London, Dec 15 (IANS) Angry and hurt Elin Nordegren is expected to have a heart-to-heart with Victoria Beckham in a bid to save her marriage to celebrity golfer Tiger Woods. But the unravelling of his philandering life continues, with a 31-year-old single mother now saying they had a six-month affair.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:20:04 -0500

Hamburg, Dec 15 (DPA) Leading German newspaper, the Hamburger Abendblatt, began charging web visitors Tuesday as the country's media begins to turn away from what has been dubbed the 'culture of free' on the internet.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:02 -0500

Copenhagen, Dec 15 (IANS) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore, Wangari Maathai, Desmond Tutu and a host of other celebrities descended on the climate summit Tuesday, rubbing shoulders with NGOs dressed as angels, penguins and trees.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:30:02 -0500

Copenhagen, Dec 15 (IANS) Rich countries are taking the climate summit backwards, NGOs following the negotiations said Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:00:03 -0500

Washington, Dec 15 : Adopting the veil is not just a sign of social stigmatisation, but also a fashion statement for many people, say Turkish experts.
ANI Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:20:05 -0500

London, Dec 15 (IANS) Students who watch peers being bullied verbally or physically, could become as distressed if not more so, by the events than the victims themselves.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:30:02 -0500

London, Dec 15 (IANS) An Indian man has appeared in a London magistrate's court charged with the murder of his estranged wife, who was left dying on the streets with her hand chopped off.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:20:02 -0500

Islamabad, Dec. 15 : Former Pakistan Attorney General Malik Qayyum has told the Supreme Court that former President General Pervez Musharraf had asked the concerned authorities in Switzerland to withdraw cases against the NRO beneficiaries.
ANI Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:50:09 -0500

Brussels, Dec 15 (DPA) US Open semi-finalist Yanina Wickmayer and her Belgian compatriot Xavier Malisse will be aiming for possible Australian Open wild cards next month after a court overturned one-year bans for missing anti-doping tests.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:20:04 -0500

Copenhagen, Dec 15 (IANS) An 'alternate' climate summit organised by the well-known once-hippie community of Christiania here ran into trouble early Tuesday when activists clashed with police, leading to 210 arrests. Police used dogs, batons, teargas, flash bombs and water cannons to disperse the activists.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:20:03 -0500

Nairobi, Dec 15 (DPA) Kenyan officials were Tuesday reportedly searching for the Eritrean national football team after it failed to return home following defeat in a local tournament.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:20:02 -0500

Milan, Dec 15 (IANS/AKI) The replica of Milan's cathedral, believed to have been the weapon that struck Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi late Sunday, has become a cult souvenir in the city.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:10:01 -0500

Copenhagen, Dec 15 (DPA) Danish police Tuesday said they arrested some 200 people and used tear gas overnight against a group of protestors at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:40:03 -0500

London, Dec 15 (IANS) Singer Katy Perry has uploaded her topless picture on the social networking site Twitter.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:40:01 -0500

London, Dec 15 (DPA) Britain's Prince Charles, a veteran campaigner on environmental issues, plans to urge the UN Copenhagen conference to take 'comprehensive and all-embracing' action to avert a climate change disaster, his office said Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:20:02 -0500

Copenhagen, Dec 15 (IANS) With just a few hours left before heads of state from around the world start addressing the climate summit, there was still no sign of a Copenhagen Agreement Tuesday. The best that over 100 environment ministers assembled here have achieved is to avert a collapse of the UN conference.
IANS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:50:02 -0500

A European Parliament working group discussed a draft resolution today on the deteriorating situation regarding freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
Spero News Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:59:58 -0500

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New Kerala Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:57:12 -0500

Madrid, Dec 16 : Spain will contribute to the financing of a subway system in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the Spanish industry ministry said.
New Kerala Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:57:04 -0500

The Kleindienst Group is due to commence construction on the island of Germany on Nakheel’s The World project in the first quarter of 2010, the company announced on Tuesday.
Arabian Business Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:45:29 -0500

Ethiopia, one of Africa's poorest countries, last night put forward a radical multi-billion-dollar plan to break the continuing deadlock at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen — which was immed...
Belfast Telegraph Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:39:44 -0500

France remained transfixed by the news that a beloved and aging French rock star known as the French Elvis was in a medically induced coma in a Los Angeles hospital.
International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:32:00 -0500

“It’s a bit of a tightrope act,” said Uwe Krupp, Germany’s coach and the man who will choose the squad. “We can’t simply take all our N.H.L. players just because th...
International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:31:57 -0500

MILAN — Facebook said Tuesday that it would monitor content on its Web site dealing with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy following an attack at a political rally that left him hospital...
International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:31:50 -0500

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IC Wales Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:31:46 -0500

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) WASHINGTON, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - The United States and Russia have made progress in their talks on strategic arms reductions, the U.S. State Department...
RIA Novosti Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:23:24 -0500

The Kleindienst Group is due to commence construction on the island of Germany on Nakheel’s The World project in the first quarter of 2010, the company announced on Tuesday.
Arabian Business Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:23:10 -0500

Rabbe von Hertzen, who is heading up the investigation, says two members of the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP) are to question suspects and meet with Russian investigators. They are to retur...
YLE News Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:20:37 -0500

Mayon is the Philippines' most active volcano (AAP) The Philippines' most active volcano is oozing lava and shooting up plumes of ash, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes and face th...
SBS Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:57:45 -0500

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has reportedly suggested that a deal on climate change might not include a figure on financial aid for developing countries.
SBS Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:57:39 -0500

NAGOYA, Japan - On a desolate stretch of track just before midnight, when all passenger lines have been put to bed, a juiced-up Japanese bullet train goes online and accelerates to over 200 miles per...
Star Tribune Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:32:40 -0500

WASHINGTON — The State Department says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Copenhagen this week to attend a conference aimed at fashioning a global deal to curb emissions th...
My San Antonio Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:28:40 -0500

Angela Allen were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court for a string of sexual assaults and making and distributing indecent images of children.Mother-of-two George, who worked at Little Ted's Day Care Uni...
Independent.ie Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:24:38 -0500

Silvio Berlusconi 's aides have expressed concern for his morale after a protester smashed a heavy statuette into his face. The normally ebullient Italian prime minister, who in recent months has desc...
Independent.ie Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:24:37 -0500

Crude traded near US$70 a barrel before a U.S. Energy Department report tomorrow forecast to show that oil inventories fell by 2 million barrels last week. Oil dropped for a ninth day Monday, its long...
The China Post Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:20:23 -0500

LONDON/TOKYO -- The euro hit a two-month low against the dollar Tuesday on fresh fears over the health of Austria's banks, while traders remained unconvinced by a Greek plan to tackle its soaring debt...
The China Post Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:20:21 -0500

An inquiry is due to open in Berlin into the circumstances surrounding a Nato air strike in Afghanistan in which up to 142 people were killed.Afghan civilians were among the victims of the airstrike i...
BBC Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:08:35 -0500

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IOL Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:01:54 -0500

European online Christmas shopping season got off to a strong start this year in the U.K., France and Germany, according to a new report from comScore. Visits to retail sites were up 18 percent dur...
Web Pro News Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:01:12 -0500

(WARSAW, Poland) ? Pomoj and pantalono ? Esperanto for apples and trousers ? went on sale in some Warsaw shops Tuesday as Europe marked 150 years since the birth of the creator of the i...
Time Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:51:25 -0500

The chunk of the tower's spiral staircase, containing 40 steps, was part of a larger piece removed from the tower in 1983. (Getty Images) A piece of a staircase from the Eiffel Tower has sold at auc...
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:31:52 -0500

American rider George Hincapie was a powerhouse domestique for Lance Armstrong during all seven of his Tour de France victories. (Getty Images) Team BMC Racing has named an all-star line-up to compe...
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:31:49 -0500

Australian cycling star Cadel Evans has bemoaned the dramatic cut in support for elite mountain bikers, calling it a knock on the head for the sport.
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:31:43 -0500

Lance Armstrong will return to Adelaide in 2010 to race AAP. Tour de France legend Lance Armstrong will go head-to-head with Australia's world champion Cadel Evans in the Tour Down Under in January.
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:31:37 -0500

Antonio Valencia of Manchester U celebrates scoring their third goal against Wolverhampton. (Getty Images) LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester United thrashed a weakened Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0 Tuesda...
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:31:31 -0500

LONDON (Reuters) - Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has pledged his future to League Two (fourth division) club Notts County after manager Hans Backe resigned on Tuesday.
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:31:27 -0500

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Lionel Messi's chances of lining up for Barcelona against Atlante in their Club World Cup semi-final on Wednesday have increased, according to coach Pep Guardiola, after the play...
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:31:24 -0500

Chinese Ambassador to Belgium Zhang Yuanyuan reiterated here on Tuesday China's stance on climate change and expressed hope of seeing an agreement reached by all countries in the climate talks in Cope...
People's Daily Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:28:45 -0500

Rome, Dec 16 : An earthquake registering 4.2 on the Richter scale Tuesday caused panic and damaged houses along the border of the Italian regions of Umbria and Tuscany.
New Kerala Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:58:36 -0500

MOSCOW: NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen was to meet Russian leaders on Wednesday in Moscow, the first visit by a head of the Western military alliance since the Georgia war blew a Cold War chill thro...
Channel News Asia Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:49:29 -0500

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Grenada is to receive approximately EC$21 million (5.29M euro) in financial assistance from the European Commission, under the Commission’s vulnerability assistance schem...
Caribbean Net News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:49:16 -0500

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday played down chances the United States and Russia would sign an agreement to reduce their nuclear arms stockpiles this week during the Copenhage...
The Star Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:45:05 -0500

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government on Tuesday said it plans to rush out new measures like blacking out hate sites on the Internet to protect politicians after a weekend assault on Prime Minister Silv...
The Star Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:45:02 -0500

During the good times, Tiger Woods could find a perfect getaway in Sweden — a quiet and secluded place to avoid the media spotlight. There have been Christmas celebrations in a remote area of north...
CBC News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:40:47 -0500

The announcement comes 15 months after Russia began lobbying its allies to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two separatist territories at the center of its 2008 war with Georgia. Nauru, an ei...
International Herald Tribune Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:35:17 -0500

The gesture seemed lighthearted, but the message was not: Progress has been halting in international climate negotiations here. Yvo de Boer, the top United Nations climate official here, and Connie He...
International Herald Tribune Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:35:14 -0500

France that they should dress properly, find a job and stop speaking slang. The remarks by the minister for families, Nadine Morano, were condemned by opposition politicians from the left, who called ...
International Herald Tribune Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:35:11 -0500

Britain pledged on Tuesday to change a peculiar legal power that permits judges to order the arrest of visiting politicians and generals, a threat currently focused on Israeli officials that could pot...
International Herald Tribune Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:35:06 -0500

PARIS — “Yo, Sarko,” George W. Bush might have said in similar circumstances, grabbing the White House telephone in a time of more relaxed relations between American and French presi...
International Herald Tribune Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:35:03 -0500

Two people were killed and at least six wounded Tuesday in Kurdish protests that have raged since the only Kurdish party in Parliament was banned by the Constitutional Court last week. A shop owner in...
International Herald Tribune Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:34:55 -0500

Silvio Berlusconi with a souvenir on Sunday apologized for his “superficial, cowardly and rash” act, Italian news media reported Tuesday. Mr. Berlusconi, who had his nose and two of his te...
International Herald Tribune Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:34:53 -0500

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Reuters Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:33:38 -0500

Paris - Experts on prehistoric man are rethinking their dates after a find in a southern French valley that suggests our ancestors may have reached Europe 1.57 million years ago: 200 000 years earlier...
IOL Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:31:13 -0500

LONDON/PARIS (Reuters/AFP) - Muslims are facing increased discrimination across Europe and urgent action needs to be taken at local, national and EU levels to tackle the problem, according to a report...
The Nation Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:29:41 -0500

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) WASHINGTON, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - The United States and Russia have made progress in their talks on strategic arms reductions, the U.S. State Department...
RIA Novosti Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:26:26 -0500

TOKYO — Japan and Italy signed an agreement Tuesday on cooperation in customs matters, with an aim to crack down on counterfeiting of luxury brand products, the Finance Ministry said. The agree...
Japan Today Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:14:11 -0500

A statuette of Milan's Duomo gothic cathedral, similar to the one which hit Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is pictured in a souvenir shop downtown Milan December 14, 2009. Italians asked on...
China Daily Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:06:56 -0500

/enpproperty--> WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has no plan to sign an arms control treaty with Russia during his trip to Denmark's Copenhagen this week, according to the White House on Tuesday....
China Daily Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:06:56 -0500

The Government's plan to introduce an Internet filter to block out offensive and illegal material has been met with widespread criticism from the online community.
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:01:26 -0500

Australia's reigning world champion Cadel Evans will participate in the next edition of the Giro d'Italia cycling race in May 2010, race organisers RCS announced on Tuesday.
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:01:19 -0500

A supermarket chain in the UK has withdrawn a christmas card from some of its stores after complaints that it makes fun of children with ginger hair.
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:01:14 -0500

BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- A new epidemic goat flu (or called Q-fever) has struck the Netherlands since last week. An estimated 2,300 people have succumbed to Q-fever this year in the country an...
SINA Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:59:05 -0500

The United States and Russia are very close to hammer out a final deal on the reduction of their nuclear weapon stockpiles, the State Department said on Tuesday. "I think we are getting very clos...
People's Daily Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:58:45 -0500

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government on Tuesday said it plans to rush out new measures like blacking out hate sites on the Internet to protect politicians after a weekend assault on Prime Minister ...
West Australian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:27:26 -0500

Plans to hold a France-Africa summit in Egypt in February have been dropped because Paris disagreed with Cairo's decision to invite Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who faces an international...
SABC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:21:15 -0500

Good news from the steel firm Corus. No, it isn't intending to keep its Teesside steelworks open after all, but it is proud to announce that it will invest €35m in one of its facilities in France...
The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:15:08 -0500

Britain is running out of time in its battle to keep its treasured Aaa credit rating, Moody's warned again yesterday, despite reporting that Spain potentially faces more trouble with its public financ...
The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:38 -0500

Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian kidnap victim, has revealed in a new film that her captor shaved her head, forbade her to cry and brutally abused her during the eight years she was held in the cellar ...
The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:11 -0500

An Irish backbencher has been propelled into political prominence after startling the Dublin parliament by using the F-word during a debate on the budget. It would be going too far to say that his re...
The Independent Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:08 -0500

Relatives of a father and daughter who died when a former police inspector crashed his car after an alcohol-fuelled evening abroad hit out last night at the French justice system which allowed him to ...
The Guardian Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:12:51 -0500

Italy's financial police have raided the offices of the country's five main pasta makers as part of a price-fixing investigation, judicial sources say.The headquarters of firms such as Barilla, De Cec...
BBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:57:01 -0500

Italy's financial police have raided the offices of the country's five main pasta makers as part of a price-fixing investigation, judicial sources say.The headquarters of firms such as Barilla, De Cec...
BBC Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:56:57 -0500

Paris - A junior French minister has told young Muslims living in France they should dress properly, find a job and stop speaking slang. Opposition politicians from the left denounced the comments ...
IOL Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:48:53 -0500

Published Date: December 16, 2009 The new movie by Roman Polanski, currently under house arrest in Switzerland, will get its world premiere and be in competition at the Berlin film festival in Februa...
Kuwait Times Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:31:44 -0500

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott warned the PM he's ready for a fight and taken aim at suggestions he's a climate change sceptic by saying he's 'a fair-dinkum environmentalist'.
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:16:54 -0500

They believe an Algerian gang was behind the footage, which shows several train stations and even a running commentary from the person behind the camera. Five men were arrested after he was caught fi...
SBS Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:16:48 -0500