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The former interior minister was found dead in his home Friday, an apparent suicide, just before he was to be questioned about the 2000 slaying of an investigative journalist, dealing a blow to an inquiry that ...

Outdoor skating rinks opened and sleds taken were out of the closet Friday after the coldest March night on record in the Netherlands.

US troops in Iraq on Friday fired on a car rushing Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena to freedom after a month in captivity.

Top news: 4 March 2005, Friday. A Bulgarian soldier was killed near the Iraqi town of Diwaniya when unknown militants attacked Bulgarian patrol at 18.45, Bulgarian time, on Friday.

A multi-millionairess writer and television presenter, whose recipes and lifestyle tips are followed slavishly by millions, made a dreadful miscalculation and plummeted spectacularly from grace.

German companies will for the first time be outnumbered by international firms as the world's top general IT fair, CeBIT in Hanover, takes on a visibly Asian accent next week.

Any visit of a head of a major head of state to Yemen is an important event in contemporary Yemeni history.

In Algeria, Souad and Sherif Gasmi were able to stand on their own feet. They earned enough for a comfortable life, spending their money not only on their children, but also on their parents and a wide circle ...

Dedicated, obsessive, passionate - a dog lover preparing for the biggest canine show on earth is an extraordinary creature.

A PUB chain has revealed that income at three of its new non-smoking premises has risen since it imposed a ban on cigarettes.

Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov, one of the most wanted men in Russia, says a 30-minute meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin would be enough to stop the decade-long conflict in Chechnya.

Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister has called for correction of the wrong concepts and impressions and for the purification of the atmospheres among the Arab and Islamic countries on one hand and ...

Police officers were tonight making a detailed search of the area where a 25-year-old Northern Ireland woman went missing.

French President Jacques Chirac called Friday for the complete and immediate implementation of a United Nations resolution seeking Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon.

Blair lauds contribution of Indians in Britain London, Mar 4 British Prime Minister Tony Blair has praised the "invaluable contribution" made by the million Indians settled in Britain especially the dynamism ...

TV chef Jamie Oliver has won significant parliamentary backing for his crusade to improve school dinners, it emerged today.

All the hospital equipment intended for hospitals in Costa Rica funded by Finnish development aid have been delivered to Costa Rican hospitals and health care centres.

Luxembourg Foreign Minister and EU Council Chairman Jean Asselborn is meeting with chief UN prosecutor Carla del Ponte in The Hague on Friday to discuss del Ponte's final assessment of whether Croatia is fully ...

Ion Iliescu celebrated yesterday his 45th birthday. Even if, according to his birth certificate, he should have turned 75, the former president of Romania and the future president of the PSD has always claimed ...

Chelsea are seeking eight million pounds in compensation from former striker Adrian Mutu.

His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder held a round of talks yesterday morning at Al Shumukh castle.

In the days that followed, I realised how precise his words were in encapsulating the harsh realities of life, and the disastrous toll on people and the economy alike.

The Stereophonics will be promoting the launch of their fifth album a Language. Sex. Violence.

Today nothing prevents Ukraine from operating the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline in the direct mode, Yulia Tymoshenko noted.

A MORAY theatre group was flying high last weekend after landing a double success.

"European Constitution, Maltese Values: A split image?" This was the topic of an intriguing debate presented by AEGEE-Valletta. AEGEE-Valletta is the local antenna of AEGEE-Europe, the largest European student ...

Whisper it softly, but televisions showing news, timetable updates and adverts could soon be appearing on trains across the country.

Quebec Premier Jean Charest is calling for a stronger role for his francophone province on the world stage, saying Canada's federal government should no longer have exclusive rights over foreign and trade ...

The Kummissjoni Nazzjonali Persuni b'Dizabilita declared that it won the court case against Michele Peresso Ltd regarding accessibility of the premises to wheelchair users.

Business: 4 March 2005, Friday. The Bulgarian cabinet has the full support of the International Atomic Energy Agency for the building of country's second nuclear plant of Belene.

France opened one of its biggest criminal trials yesterday, bringing 66 men and women to court accused of involvement in the rape, sexual abuse and prostitution of dozens of children and babies as young as six ...

Hungarian Liberals voice support for Romania's accession to EU Bucharest, March 4 /Rompres/ - Hungary's government coalition is supporting Romania's accession to the EU, says chairman of the Committee on ...

Politics: 4 March 2005, Friday. Strasbourg Court have sentenced 20 Bulgarians for pimping activities in the period 2000-2001, the world media reported Friday.

Bulgarian triple jumper Momchil Karailiev on Friday advanced to the men's finals of the European Indoor Track and Field Championships in Madrid, Spain after landing at 17.15 meters in his second attempt, state ...

US band REM have announced plans to perform for 10,000 Scottish fans in a rescheduled gig.