Does the brain process words and music separately or as one? Well scientists in Germany seem to have found an answer to the hotly debated...

North Korean dictators Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il had placed special agents across Europe for shopping sprees which included buying, luxury carpets, gold-plated guns, small Cessna planes and high-priced foreign cars such as Mercedes-Benz and Lincolns, according to the memoir of former Army Col. Kim...

Rihanna reportedly jetted in from Germany to meet her new boyfriend Matt Kemp' family for the first...

Sweden has the most number of bisexual babes in the world and San Francisco is the kinkiest place to visit - these are some of the facts revealed by a new...

Gursewak Dhillon, a part-time taxi driver who dumped three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa's body nearly 20 km from his home in this Australian city, was being probed for 'possible immigration fraud', an official said...

Nicklas Bendtner scored a superb hat-trick as Arsenal produced a virtuoso performance to crush Porto 5-0 to storm into the quarter-finals of the Champions League...

Cypriot authorities Tuesday arrested two people, including an Indian national, for allegedly stealing the corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos from his grave three months ago and said the suspects had earlier demanded a...

Actress Brooke Shields says being famous is like a 'drug' because it gives such great...

Hollywood star Johnny Depp's girlfriend Vanessa Paradis has been signed on as the new face of Chanel Coco Cocoon...

British pop star Robbie Williams has come under fire from anti-drugs campaigners for championing marijuana as a 'lovely'...

Rolling Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood's celebrity friends are leaving no stone unturned to help their pal overcome his alcohol...

Hollywood star Sean Penn's representative has denied reports that the actor was thrown out of the Governor's Ball after picking up a fight with producer Greg...

MADRID — A Spanish aid worker kidnapped late last year in Mauritania by suspected Islamic militants was freed Wednesday but two colleagues remain in captivity, the Spanish government said. ...

MADRID — Spain's deputy prime minister says a Spanish aid worker kidnapped late last year in Mauritania by suspected Islamic militants has been freed, but two colleagues remain in captivity. ...

Lawyers for Liam Adams, brother of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, say he will fight extradition to Northern Ireland where he faces 18 charges of sexually abusing his...

Study reviews more exposure pathways than previous surveys, also concludes additional research needed on production processes for canned soup, canned meat. Swiss researchers examining exposure...

US President Barack Obama (R) meeting with Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece before a portrait of 16th US president Abraham Lincoln on March 9, 2010 in the Oval Office of the White House in...

Global turmoil has failed to hinder a leading Turkish information technologies group. By managing to attain turnover of more than $1 billion in 2009, Index Group is becoming more motivated for...

(STRASBOURG) - European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Wednesday urged Brussels powerbrokers to give up their traditional fiefdoms and allow her to do her job unfettered."Europe...

Madrid - Spain plans a reform of its anti-doping laws in order to allow sports federations access to court evidence gathered by state authorities against athletes under doping suspicion, sports...

Parma, Italy - A three-day conference of Europe's 53 members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) opened Wednesday in Italy, focussing on clean water, sanitation, air pollution and dangerous...

Berlin - Germany criticized a new Israeli housing plan for East Jerusalem on Wednesday, and said the decision to build 1,600 new homes in the occupied West Bank land was "not acceptable.""In terms of...

Rome - Support in Italy for Silvio Berlusconi has sunk to the lowest levels since he began a third term as premier in 2008, according to the results of a survey released on Wednesday. The Ipr...

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin listens Russia plans to sign more than $14 billion ($US10 billion) worth of deals with India during the visit of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin later this...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ten alleged associates of a slain Islamist rebel leader have been arrested as suspects in a deadly November bombing of a luxury train that left 26 dead, a court official told...

The Tories have made "a strategic decision" not to start an immediate row with the European Union if they win the election, William Hague has said.The shadow foreign secretary told the...

download Flash from the Adobe download website. Thousands of commuters were trapped in trains as the blizzards struck with many having to be evacuated to sports halls. Flights were cancelled,...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Bayern Munich playmaker Franck Ribery's decision whether to leave the side or not was made a little more difficult after the Germans squeezed into the Champions League...

MARCOUSSIS, France (Reuters) - France winger Marc Andreu will start for the first time in the Six Nations game against Italy Sunday after coach Marc Lievremont made two changes to his team for the...

Stockholm - Leading Swedish newspapers on Wednesday published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog by a caricaturist after he was targeted by an alleged assassination plot. ...

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish aid worker kidnapped late last year in Mauritania by suspected Islamic militants was freed Wednesday but two colleagues remain in captivity, the Spanish government said....

The new U.S. adoptive approach for European missile defense includes the possibility of using a Russian radar system as part of an integrated system, NATO's top military officer has said. Adm. James...

LONDON (AFP) - The euro pulled lower against the dollar on Wednesday in the wake of disappointing data in Germany, while traders tracked Europe's...

LONDON (AFP) - Europe's leading stock markets nudged higher on Wednesday as traders awaited key US economic data and assessed the latest batch of company...

air traffic controllers joining a strike called by two powerful unions comprising more than one million members.Ships will remain anchored as an influential sailors' union is joining the protest....

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's foreign affairs chief laid out a stark choice for the region on Wednesday, saying it must pull together in foreign policy or be sidelined by China and...

The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service wants to ban oil companies from buying and building gas stations in regions where they have at least 35 percent of the market. Retail sales of oil products are...

Ukraine will join the Unified Economic Space of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan only on the conditions of the World Trade Organization, President Viktor Yanukovych said on Saturday. "We have...

The construction of the Russia-China oil pipeline will be finished by the end of this year, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Sunday. The project is part of the East Siberia - Pacific oil...

Thousands of miles (kilometers) from the Siberian jail where its founder is imprisoned, representatives of the ruined Russian oil giant Yukos and the Russian government will meet face to face for the...

The number of Russians who have savings accounts has decreased to 24% from 31% in the past four months with fewer people saving money in rubles, an opinion poll carried out by the Russia Public...

Closer cooperation with Russia should become a major foreign policy priority for NATO, but better relations with Moscow cannot come at the expense of the security of eastern European alliance...

By Joanne Frearson LONDON, March 10 (Reuters) - European shares were little changed at midday on Wednesday, with falls in drugmakers offsetting a rise in commodity stocks which were supported by...

MOSCOW - Ten men captured by Russian security forces in a raid that killed a militant leader last week have been arrested as suspects in a deadly November train bombing, Russian news agencies...