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.
Russia decided to take intervention measures in the domestic grain market to stabilize surging food prices, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said Monday.
Protests were seen in 57 different Spanish cities in demanding a referendum on the spending cuts introduced by the government of Mariano Rajoy.
China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Co Ltd and French nuclear giant Areva SA have dropped out of the bidding for the UK's planned nuclear Horizon project, British media reported on Wednesday.
China has increasingly replaced the United States as the biggest market for luxury vehicles related to Germany's Volkswagen Group, a senior analyst said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron expressed condolence to the victims in the disastrous ferry collision happened in Hong Kong on October 1, according to a British Consulate-General Hong Kong press release on Wednesday.
NATO decided on Wednesday to extend the mandate of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen for one more year until July 2014.
French court on Tuesday dropped charges accusing ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of gang rape in late 2010 in Washington, the United States, local media reported.
German cancer specialists have made significant progress in the development of a vaccine against renal cell carcinoma, with first test results looking promising, it was reported on Monday.
Tens of thousands of left-wing protesters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to denounce European Union-driven austerity measures being pushed on member states, a day after similar protests in Spain and Portugal.
In Germany, fireworks can only be sold to the public on the last three workdays of the year. But the schedule is busy year-round for Henkel's company.
The World Health Organization said there is no evidence so far of person to person transmission of the new type of coronavirus which already killed one and leaves one currently in critical situation.
Millions of beer drinkers from around the world will come to the Bavarian capital for the 179th Oktoberfest, which runs until Oct 7, 2012.