Regions should have more say: PM

Ukraine's prime minister told leaders in the country's restive east on Friday that he is committed to allowing regions to have more powers, but left it unclear how his ideas differed from the demands of protesters now occupying government buildings or Russia's advocacy of federalization.

Zoo puts tradition out to pasture

Paris to unveil new stress-free, biodiverse enclosures following $234m renovation

Australian ex-foreign minister defends book as 'darn good read'

Former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr has defended his new book in which he savages colleagues, speculates about whether US peers have had plastic surgery and derides business class travel as inspired by the slave trade.

India's main opposition BJP expected to gain in Delhi polls

Voters in the Indian capital went to the polls on Thursday, the third day of the mammoth nine-phase general elections across the country, with experts predicting losses for the ruling Congress party.

Clinton: New laws roll back civil rights progress

Restrictions on voting rights in US conservative states endanger the core of the country's civil rights movement and force its citizens to recreate "a yesterday we're better off done with," former US president Bill Clinton said on Wednesday.

Suspect claims he killed 40 as hitman for drug cartel

A suspected contract killer charged in California with killing nine people confessed to investigators that he carried out up to 40 slayings in a career spanning decades, a prosecutor said.

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Ukraine offers amnesty to pro-Russian separatists

Ukraine will not prosecute pro-Russian separatists who seized government buildings if they surrender their weapons and disperse, the country's president said on Thursday, in a bid to ease a crisis that stoked fears of the country's breakup.

European Council strips moscow of voting rights

Russian lawmakers at the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly were stripped of their voting rights until the end of 2014 on Thursday over Russia's annexation of Crimea.

Two car bombs kill 25 in Homs

Two car bombs killed at least 25 people, including women and children, in a government-held neighborhood of Syria's central city of Homs on Wednesday, state news agency SANA reported.

US secretly fed political satire to Cuba in social media

Humanitarian group claims tool was designed only for individual use

Activists campaign to save Moscow steel tower from being dismantled

Thousands of Muscovites and several top international architects have launched a campaign to save a conical steel tower that has marked Moscow's skyline since 1922.