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.
German authorities plan to launch a national investigation on the widening scandal of horsemeat in frozen products.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his U.S. counterpart John Kerry held, eventually, a telephone conversation on Sunday, discussing Syrian settlement and Pyongyang's recent nuclear test.
Thousands of Russian emergency workers went out on Saturday to clear up the damage from a meteor that exploded over the Ural mountains. 
Russia proposes common space defense system Meteorite damage exceeds $30m in Russia
Finance ministers and central bankers of the G20 group on Saturday pledged to strengthen financial stability and promote sustainable growth.
Britain reported to the World Health Organization on Saturday that a third member of one British family has been confirmed as novel coronavirus infection.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin Saturday proposed establishing a common defense system to counter space threats, one day after a meteorite explosion injured some 1,200 people in the Chelyabinsk region in Russia's Urals region.
The damage caused by the meteorite strike in Russia's Urals region is estimated to exceed 1 billion rubles (about 30 million US dollars), a local official said Saturday.
Swedish photojournalist Paul Hansen won the World Press Photo 2012 for a picture of a burial in Gaza.
The president of French meat processor Spanghero promised on Friday to disprove allegations that his company knowingly sold horsemeat labeled as beef.
New tests on a painting billed as the original version of the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's 15th century portrait, have produced fresh proof that it is the work of the Italian master.
The eurozone's trade in goods recorded a surplus of 81.8 billion euro (109.2 billion US dollars) in 2012, compared with a deficit of 15.7 billion euro in 2011, Eurostat said Friday.
A slaughterhouse in Denmark's Jutland peninsula was suspected of selling horse meat labeled as beef, the country's food minister said Friday.
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