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.
The booming yachting industry in China is attracting attention of major European industry players who are seeking to tap the growing interest of China's wealthy for the luxury lifestyle.
Death threats have been made against the Australian radio hosts involved in the royal prank call case, police said on Friday.
The University of Birmingham in the UK launched its China Institute on Thursday to broaden its engagement with China.
Parliament members scuffle over voting rules during the first session of the newly-elected Ukrainian parliament in Kiev Dec 13, 2012.
A coroner's officer says the nurse who took a hoax call about the Duchess of Cambridge was found hanging by the neck from a scarf on a wardrobe door in her room.
Lithuanian parliament approved the government program for 2012-2016 and the 16th government of Lithuania was sworn in on Thursday.
A Danish researcher has stumbled across the first fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen in Denmark's national archives.
The European Union has scored a series of mini-victories in recent months and is ending 2012 in perhaps the best shape of the past four years, Finland's Europe minister said.
The Standard and Poor's on Thursday revised outlook for Britain's AAA sovereign credit rating from "stable" to "negative."
The Spanish treasury on Thursday sold 2.02 billion euros (2.65 billion U.S. dollars) worth of short, medium and long-term government bonds, concluding this year's capital market issuance.
Spanish police arrested a Panamanian woman who landed in Barcelona from Bogota, Colombia with cocaine stuffed inside her breast implants.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed on Wednesday to keep the cartel's oil production limit of 30 million barrels per day.
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