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.
An influx of people from crisis-hit southern European countries has led to the biggest surge in German immigration in nearly 20 years.
The town of Anna Paulowna celebrated the 60th anniversary of its annual flower mosaic show.
The surviving member of a German neo-Nazi cell went on trial for a series of racist murders that scandalized Germany and exposed authorities' inability to recognize right-wing hate crimes.
Promoting trade and cross-border investments with China is a priority, French Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius said.
The wreckage of a Russian light aircraft that disappeared last June with 13 people on board has been discovered by hunters just a few kilometres from the plane's takeoff strip near the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.
One person died and 17 others were injured when a cargo train carrying toxic chemicals derailed near the northwestern Belgian city of Ghent on Saturday.
Visitors watch the "big ben" and "tower bridge" made by colorful tulips in the famous Keukenhof park in Lisse, the Netherlands, on May 3, 2013.
Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall pleaded guilty to sex offences on Thursday, the latest British TV star from the 1970s and 1980s to be embroiled in abuse allegations.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Thursday that the year 2012 was the ninth warmest on record despite the cooling influence of a La Nina episode early in the year.
The Chinese government will support about 50,000 international students in China in 2015, and the country will become the largest Asian destination for such students in 2020.
A pear-shaped colorless diamond weighing 101.73 was presented here in Geneva on Tuesday by Christie's and expected to achieve more than $20 million at an auction on May 15.
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated on Tuesday, handing over to her eldest son, Willem-Alexander, who became the first king of the Netherlands in more than 120 years.
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