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 World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, one day ahead of the World Diabetes Day, that more than 3 million people with diabetes die from related diseases every year.
Two people were injured as an oil tank with 20 tons of petrol caught fire Tuesday in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Competitors participate in the 2012 World Pole Dancing Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, on Nov 10, 2012.
Greece's international lenders agreed on Monday to give the country two more years to make the cuts demanded of it but the euro zone and IMF clashed over a longer-term target date to shrink the country's debt pile.
The European Union will freeze for a year its rule that all airlines must pay for their carbon emissions for flights into and out of EU airports.
The European Commission has approved the merger of Finnish stainless steel maker Outokumpu Oyj and ThyssenKrupp AG's stainless steel arm Inoxum, which will lead to the largest stainless steel company in the world.
The British Broadcasting Corporation could be doomed unless it makes radical changes, the head of its governing trust said, after its director general quit to take the blame for the airing of false child sex abuse allegations against a former politician.
The two most senior figures at BBC News stepped aside on Monday a day after the chairman of the broadcaster's governing body said it needed a radical overhaul to survive a child sex abuse scandal, it said.
Cantillon brewery, founded in 1900, is one of the few beer brewers still running in Brussels. following traditional way to brew lambic style beers.
Ukraine's ruling Party of Regions, led by President Viktor Yanukovych, won victory in the parliamentary elections, the Central Election Commission announced final results on Sunday.
Greece's parliament Monday approved the 2013 budget law, which included further austerity measures to secure fresh tranch of bailout from the debt-ridden country's international creditors.
BBC Director General resigned on Saturday after the broadcaster put out a program denounced by the corporation's chairman as shoddy journalism.
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