EUROPE

• Clock ticks down on stalled WTO talks

  Friday, 25th July,2008

  Top WTO negotiators are headed for make-or-break talks, with progress needed to avert another ignominious collapse to broker a new global free-trade pact. read more...

• Unknown insects found in ancient amber

  Friday, 25th July,2008

  Several unknown insects which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber.
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• UK Labour loses crucial by-election

  Friday, 25th July,2008

  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's ruling Labour Party has lost a key by-election in the Scottish constituency of Glasgow East, according to results. read more...

• Mine workers trapped by hungry bears

  Friday, 25th July,2008

  At least 30 hungry bears have trapped a group of geologists at their remote survey site in Russia's Far East after killing two of their co-workers last week.
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• Sastre still in yellow, Evans fourth after stage 18

  Friday, 25th July,2008

  Australian Cadel Evans remains within striking distance of overall leader Carlos Sastre as German Marcus Burghardt won stage 18 of the Tour de France read more...

• Obama wows crowd of 200,000 in Berlin

  Friday, 25th July,2008

  US presidential hopeful Barack Obama has told crowds in Berlin that Americans and Europeans must tear down walls between estranged allies, races and faiths. read more...

• Facebook victim awarded thousands

  Friday, 25th July,2008

  A British businessman has won damages against an old friend who put libellous and unauthorised information about him on Facebook. read more...

• China remains 'world's top executioner'

  Friday, 25th July,2008

  Executions jumped by a third in Iran and quadrupled in Saudi Arabia but China remains the world's top executioner, a rights group reports. read more...

• Malaysia should 'drop Anwar charges'

  Friday, 25th July,2008

  Malaysia should drop its sodomy charges against Anwar Ibrahim, a joint statement by three former leading figures on the international stage says. read more...

• Moscow 'world's most expensive city'

  Friday, 25th July,2008

  Moscow is the world's most expensive city for expats, while Tokyo has pipped London to move into second place, according to a survey. read more...

• UK woman gets payout for brain damage caused by detox diet

  Thursday, 24th July,2008

  A British woman who suffered brain damage while on a detox diet has been awarded $1.66 million dollars in damages from her nutritionist. read more...

• PM in sticky situation after glue protest

  Thursday, 24th July,2008

  An environmental protester glued himself to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown while campaigning against plans to expand London's Heathrow Airport.
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• Radioactive particles contaminate 100

  Thursday, 24th July,2008

  Radioactive particles have spewed from a pipe at a French nuclear reactor, slightly contaminating 100 employees, a spokeswoman says. read more...

• Karadzic vows to defend himself

  Thursday, 24th July,2008

  Radovan Karadzic is to defend himself before the UN war crimes court, his lawyer says, raising memories of the long-running trial of his late ally, Slobodan Milosevic. read more...

• Future cars safer and more comfortable

  Wednesday, 23rd July,2008

  Within a decade, most new cars will be equipped with clean-drive technology and a host of easy to use gadgets that will make driving safer than today. read more...