Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine reported heavy casualties on Tuesday after a second day of fighting with government forces, as authorities in Kiev vowed to continue the military offensive "until not a single terrorist" was left.
Fugitive US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden's hopes of leaving Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport for the first time in a month on Wednesday were dashed when he failed to secure permission from Russia to leave.
At least 78 people died after a train derailed in the outskirts of the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. Up to 131 people were injured. Photos
Royal officials say Britain's new prince has been named George Alexander Louis.
Former US spy agency contractor Snowden has no immediate plans to leave Russia, a lawyer assisting him in his request for temporary asylum said.
US leaker Edward Snowden has reportedly been granted a document that allows him to leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport and enter Russia.
More than 10 percent of Dutch 15 to 18-year-olds have been bullied on the internet, figures of the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) showed on Wednesday.
Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate kept the world guessing about the name of their first child as they left hospital to start family life with the future king.
Prince William and his wife Kate gave the world its first glimpse of their new baby on Tuesday when they left hospital with the boy who is third in line to the British throne.
"It's a Boy!" The headline was splashed across the front pages of many British newspapers on Tuesday morning to announce the royal baby, which had arrived on Monday afternoon.
The ship's company of the Royal Navy frigate HMS Lancaster forms the word "BOY" on the aft deck to mark the birth of Britain's new prince while on patrol in the Caribbean in a photo released by Britain's Ministry of Defence and released to Reuters on July 23, 2013.
A man jumps in a fountain of the Trocadero Square in front of the Eiffel Tower as hot summer temperatures continue in Paris July 22, 2013.
The world was awaiting the first glimpse of Britain's new prince on Tuesday with camera crews poised to photograph Prince William and his wife, Kate, leaving a London hospital with their baby son.
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