Even by late-night Spanish standards - where most restaurants don't open for dinner before 9 p.m. - the U.S. election debates were very late, starting at 3 a.m. Madrid time (9 p.m. New York).
Until recently, 25-year-old Audur Elin Sigurdardottir was living a modest Icelandic dream -- renting an apartment and two cars with her boyfriend on their one full-time and one part-time salary.
A British Army interpreter in Afghanistan sent a coded message to an Iranian military attache offering to spy for the country of his birth, prosecutors said at the opening of his trial Monday.
Paul Krugman, the Princeton University scholar and New York Times columnist, won the Nobel economic prize Monday for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect trade patterns and the location of economic activity.
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, a champion of the far-right who drew criticism for perceived pro-Nazi comments, died in a car accident Saturday, Austrian police said. He was 58.
A conservative opposition party won the first round of Lithuania's national election, although strong support for two populist groups means the Baltic nation will face difficult talks on forming a coalition government.
Austrian investigators say far-right politician Joerg Haider's car was speeding at more than twice the posted limit when it crashed and killed him.
President Nicolas Sarkozy said he expects a meeting of 15 European leaders Sunday to produce an ambitious, coordinated plan to battle the effects of the global financial crisis.
At least 12 people were killed Saturday in an earthquake in Russia's Chechnya region, Russian news agencies reported.
Police in the Naples area have arrested seven alleged mobsters, including an actor who played a boss in an award-winning movie denouncing the mafia.
Even by late-night Spanish standards - where most restaurants don't open for dinner before 9 p.m. - the U.S. election debates were very late, starting at 3 a.m. Madrid time (9 p.m. New York).
Until recently, 25-year-old Audur Elin Sigurdardottir was living a modest Icelandic dream -- renting an apartment and two cars with her boyfriend on their one full-time and one part-time salary.
A British Army interpreter in Afghanistan sent a coded message to an Iranian military attache offering to spy for the country of his birth, prosecutors said at the opening of his trial Monday.
Paul Krugman, the Princeton University scholar and New York Times columnist, won the Nobel economic prize Monday for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect trade patterns and the location of economic activity.
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, a champion of the far-right who drew criticism for perceived pro-Nazi comments, died in a car accident Saturday, Austrian police said. He was 58.
A conservative opposition party won the first round of Lithuania's national election, although strong support for two populist groups means the Baltic nation will face difficult talks on forming a coalition government.
Austrian investigators say far-right politician Joerg Haider's car was speeding at more than twice the posted limit when it crashed and killed him.
President Nicolas Sarkozy said he expects a meeting of 15 European leaders Sunday to produce an ambitious, coordinated plan to battle the effects of the global financial crisis.
At least 12 people were killed Saturday in an earthquake in Russia's Chechnya region, Russian news agencies reported.
Police in the Naples area have arrested seven alleged mobsters, including an actor who played a boss in an award-winning movie denouncing the mafia.
Austrian police say far-right politician Joerg Haider has died in a car accident.
Britain's Ministry of Defence says a disk which a tabloid said carries personal details of some 100,000 serving British military personnel is missing.
Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari has won the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday.
You can almost picture it now: Paris Hilton swallowed up by a tight-fitting futuristic designer space suit -- one hand waving at the on-flight camera, the other clasping a Dior "space traveler" handbag.
Cyprus' rival community leaders have agreed to accelerate the peace process by holding weekly negotiations on a deal to reunify the war-divided island.
There's no doubt what Vladimir Putin's favorite birthday present is this year -- a rare Ussuri tiger cub.
Jazz has always been a popular form of music because its improvisatory nature is easily adapted by a community or nation to reflect its individual identity.
Turkish warplanes and artillery bombed and killed a large group of Kurdish rebels as they tried to cross the rugged mountains into Turkey from northern Iraq, the military said Friday.
Jimmy Wales began the successful peer-reviewed encyclopedia Wikipedia in 2001.
Human rights activists were seen as the favorites to win the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize -- including Chinese dissidents Gao Zhisheng and Hu Jia, Russia's Lidia Yusupova, Vietnam's Thich Quang Do or the group Human Rights Watch.
Montenegro recognized the independence of Kosovo on Thursday in defiance of staunch opposition from its traditional ally Serbia, which expelled Montenegro's ambassador.
Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's great scientists, is looking to the stars to save the human race -- but pessimism is overriding his natural optimism.
"No one can explain the power of music; there is no writer, no philosopher, no musician, and certainly no politician who can describe where the music stops, it is not possible" (Valery Gergiev, CNN 2008)
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Turkey's leaders met Thursday to discuss increasing the military's powers to combat Kurdish rebels following a surge in attacks, some launched from rebel bases in northern Iraq.
French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, the Nobel Foundation announced Thursday.
As part of its Eye on Poland coverage, CNN is asking its viewers -- including Poles living in Poland and abroad -- about what defines the nation today.
Nearly a fourth of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction, a leading international conservation group said Monday as it unveiled its latest global study of the problem.
Two men accused of failed car bomb attacks in London and a car bombing at Glasgow International Airport last year went on trial Thursday.
It's your turn to tell us at CNN who you think the great leaders of 2009 will be.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved Parliament on Wednesday and called a snap election for December 7, dashing hopes for the revival of a pro-Western coalition and throwing the politically volatile ex-Soviet nation into further turmoil.
Russian troops pulled back from their positions outside Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia but held their ground in contested areas, setting the stage for more tension between the two countries that waged war in August.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved Parliament on Wednesday and called a snap election, dashing hopes for the revival of a pro-Western coalition and throwing the politically volatile ex-Soviet nation into further turmoil.
Lawmakers were expected Wednesday to extend the Turkish military's mandate to carry out cross-border operations against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
Greece's air, rail and urban transport came to a grinding halt Wednesday as the country's biggest labor union staged a 24-hour nationwide strike in protest of the government's plan to sell off the state's ailing carrier Olympic Airlines.
Spain's Supreme Court has acquitted 15 men who were convicted earlier this year of membership in an Islamic terrorist group, but upheld the convictions of five others from the same trial, according to a summary of the rulings issued Tuesday and viewed by CNN.
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin is out on video as a judo master.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet voted Tuesday to extend Germany's military mission in Afghanistan for 14 more months.
Montenegro's president has indicated his tiny Balkan state will recognize Kosovo's independence despite bitter opposition from traditional ally Serbia.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday that "some forces in Tbilisi" are trying to provoke new violence in Georgia.
Two Frenchmen and a German won the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries of viruses that cause HIV and cervical cancer, the organization's Web site said Monday.
A local passenger train ran into the back of an long-distance train Monday near Budapest, killing four people and injuring 26.
Pope Benedict XVI's "In the beginning" started off a weeklong Bible-reading marathon on Italian television Sunday.
Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good.
Some say Poland is the biggest of the "small countries" in the European Union. Others call it the smallest of the "big countries."
At 51 years of age, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has come a long way. As part of the Kashubian minority living in the Gdansk Region, he was born to working-class parents -- his father a carpenter and his mother a nurse.
In April 2007, UEFA's executive committee voted to accept a joint proposal from Poland and Ukraine to host the European football Championships in 2012.
Before its occupation by Nazi Germany in 1939, Poland was home to Europe's largest Jewish community, and its capital Warsaw was the continent's largest Jewish city.
Pope Benedict XVI's "In the beginning" started off a weeklong Bible-reading marathon on Italian television Sunday.
Russian troops began dismantling positions Sunday in the so-called security zones inside Georgia they have occupied since August's brief but intense war, a Georgian Interior Ministry official said.
A U.N. nuclear conference of 145 nations indirectly criticized Israel on Saturday for refusing to put its atomic program under international purview.
A man in eastern Austria used a homemade firebomb to kill his wife's elderly parents, police said Saturday.
A car has exploded outside the Russian military headquarters in South Ossetia, killing seven people and wounding several others.
A new space race is officially under way, and this one should have the sci-fi geeks salivating.
What do Copernicus and a Britney Spears look-a-like have in common? Despite centuries separating the two, both have inspired greatness in Poland.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reached into the past to save his future Friday, recruiting stars from the Tony Blair era into his Cabinet.
Irish President Mary McAleese has signed a sweeping bank-guarantee bill into law, granting protection to all deposits with Irish-owned banks.
The UK's top police officer, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair, announced his resignation Thursday after being urged to step down by London mayor Boris Johnson.
A nonthreatening amount of melamine has been found in a milkshake at a Chinese restaurant in southern Austria, the Health Ministry said Thursday.
Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland's former finance minister, recently said his country is enjoying "its best period in 300 years." CNN looks at how the country emerged from communism to become one of eastern Europe's most stable and thriving democracies.
A former butler who once served Queen Elizabeth II faces sentencing next month for multiple child sex offenses.
Graphic pictures showing the devastating health effects of smoking began appearing on cigarette packs in Britain on Wednesday as part of a government initiative to deter people from picking up the habit.
Spanish police have arrested 121 men and seized millions of computer files in the country's biggest operation against child pornography on the Internet.
Former Gurkha soldiers who served in the British Army have won a significant court battle in their long-running fight to settle in the UK.
The four warships that Russia is sending to Venezuela in its first deployment of military power to the Western Hemisphere since the Cold War also will visit Libya and several other Mediterranean countries, the navy said Wednesday.
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A Russian billionaire said Tuesday he is teaming up with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to form a new political party that will challenge the country's recent steps away from democracy.
European Union monitors began patrolling Georgian territory Wednesday under a French-brokered peace deal, facing a Russian military that seemed reluctant to retreat.
The Russian Supreme Court on Wednesday declared the last czar and his murdered family to be victims of political repression -- a decision that helps Russia move toward closing a chapter in its tortured history.
Italian authorities Tuesday arrested two suspects believed to be responsible for the September 18 killing of six African immigrants in Castelvolturno, a small town of 20,000 residents north of Naples.
An industrial vacuum cleaner left switched on inside the historic Cutty Sark ship was the most likely cause of the fire last year that gutted the 19th-century tea clipper, police said Tuesday.
Five German tourists held hostage in Egypt for 10 days arrived back in Germany on Tuesday, the German government announced.
A fire broke out early Monday at one of Britain's biggest children's hospitals, injuring four firefighters and forcing the hospital's cardiac wing to evacuate.
The opposition has been shut out of Belarus' parliament in elections that a major international observation organization says were significantly flawed.
Austria's future direction lay in doubt Monday after two far-right, anti-immigration parties made big gains in national elections while the governing coalition lost seats in Parliament.
Some 15,000 enthusiasts have assembled the world's largest jigsaw puzzle in the southern German town of Ravensburg, Europe's biggest puzzle maker said.
Finns on Sunday mourned the victims of a school massacre in which a lone gunman killed nine fellow students and a teacher before shooting himself.
Russia must modernize its armed forces and upgrade its nuclear deterrent, in part by building a new air and space defense network, the president said Friday.
Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy successfully crossed the English Channel using his homemade jet-propelled wing Friday, the first man to perform the feat.
Three suspects including an American student attended a second hearing in Italy on Friday in the case of a slain British student.
A Ukrainian ship seized off Somalia by pirates had 33 Russian T-72 tanks in its cargo, officials said Friday.
German federal police seized two suspected terrorists from a Dutch passenger aircraft at Cologne airport Friday shortly before it was due to take off for Amsterdam, officials told CNN.
Outside the Zekai Tahir Burak maternity hospital stands a bronze statue of a mother nursing a baby with an inscription from the Prophet Mohammed: "Paradise lies at the feet of the mother."
Dortmund Airport says an Airbus A321 passenger jet has rolled off a runway early Friday, forcing the evacuation of 168 passengers aboard.
Forensic experts in Finland have confirmed the identities of each of the 10 victims of a school massacre that caused panic among students and sparked fears of copycat attacks, police said Friday.
German police commandos grabbed two terrorist suspects from an Amsterdam-bound flight early Friday before the plane took off from Cologne, police said.
The Foreign Ministry says pirates have seized a Ukrainian-operated ship off Somalia.
A computer glitch at Britain's air traffic control center on Thursday led to delays and cancellations across the country, officials said.
Bomb threats and a flurry of menacing mobile phone messages sparked panic Thursday among students in Finland, as fears grew that copycat attacks would follow the nation's second school massacre in less than a year.
Swiss pilot Yves Rossy has been forced to postpone his attempt to cross the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing.
EU border patrol missions are scouring the Italian shore in search of yet another missing vessel carrying North Africans attempting to reach Europe, a Maltese commander told CNN Thursday.
Police in Finland have identified the 10 victims in Tuesday's college shooting as eight female students, a male student and a male teacher.
Serbia's war crimes prosecutors formally launched proceedings Wednesday against a World War II veteran accused of participating in mass killings of Jews and Serbs during the Nazi occupation.
The global economic downturn is taking its toll on gastronomic traditions in France where 3,000 eateries are reported to have gone bust in the first quarter of this year alone.
The Italian government has approved the creation of a new task force of 500 soldiers who will be deployed to combat the recent wave of Mafia crime in the country.
The label on the package claimed that it contained t-shirts and baby toys.
French police have arrested two suspected ETA members, and an international alert has been put out for an ETA militant recently released from jail.
The Greek prime minister suspended one of his aides on Tuesday after he was convicted of attempting to harbor a criminal and instigating perjury in a drug dealing case.
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