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.
A microbus overturned Saturday on a desert highway heading to Upper Egypt's governorate of Minia, some 220 km south of the capital Cairo, state-run Al-Ahram Online reported.
A military helicopter crashed Saturday in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, killing three of the four people on board, authorities said.
Hungary deployed tanks to reach thousands of motorists trapped in heavy snow on Friday in a sudden cold snap and high winds which also struck parts of the Balkans, Slovakia and Poland.
Europe and Russia have signed a deal for a joint Mars mission, which will bore beneath the Red Planet's surface for soil samples they hope will solve the mystery of whether there is life beyond Earth.
Italy's public debt hit a new record high of over 2 trillion euros in January, the Italy's central bank said on Friday.
The Spanish public debt set a record high in 2012 as it reached 84.1 percent of Spain's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to data published this Friday by the Bank of Spain.
An unseasonable snowstorm accompanied by high winds swept through Hungary overnight, isolating settlements and trapping thousands of people in their cars Friday.
Italmatch Chemicals SpA, an Italian specialty chemicals company controlled by Mandarin Capital Partner, has successfully completed the acquisition of the phosphonates business under the global leading brand Dequest, and of the phosphorus chlorides business from Netherlands-based Thermphos International BV, according to Mandarin Capital Partner on March 15.
Britain will soon bring its healthcare expertise to China by setting up a new agency, Healthcare UK, according to a former British health secretary.
Albanians celebrate the Summer Festival in Tirana, capital of Albania on March 14, 2013.
Top leaders of the EU held broad talks on growth without making concrete decisions on the spring summit in Brussels.
Four people taken hostage by a gunman in the Southern Russian city of Astrakhan have been released, local investigators said Thursday.
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