The former president of the Basque Nationalist Party PNV, Xabier Arzalluz stands with other PNV militants in front of the Basque Country court, to support the Basque regional government president Juan Jose ...

More than 100 flights at Rome's main airport have been cancelled because of a ground staff protest against job cuts that are part of Alitalia's imminent relaunch.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, seen, during a joint news conference with Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, not seen, at the Moncloa Presidential palace in Madrid, on Thursday, Jan.

Two aid workers kidnapped from Ethiopia by Somali gunmen more than three months ago have been released in good health, their organization said.French aid group Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) said in a statement that Japanese worker Keiko Akahane, 32, and Dutchman Willem Sools, 27, were staying at a safe location after their release Wednesday.'They are in very good health,' Jean-Luc Lambert, the group's Nairobi-based head of mission. There was no information on how or why the workers were released.

Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new capitalism 1/2 German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers her speech at the symposium "New World, New Capitalism" in Paris Thursday Jan.

Eurovision Dance Contest will be held next year in Baku. Azerbaijan won the right for hosting the Eurovision Dance 2009 Contest at the tender attended by England and Poland as well. Dancers of the European countries would gather in Baku, Azerbaijan on September 16, 2009.

The threat of a homegrown terror attack in Britain has declined over the last 18 months, according to newspaper reports published Wednesday quoting the director of the country's domestic intelligence agency.But senior al-Qaida leaders still hope to recruit Britons to carry out bombings in the country, MI5 director-general Jonathan Evans was quoted as saying by six British newspapers.A British security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity since the person was not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed the reports of Evans' comments were accurate.

German unemployment rose for the first time in almost three years in December as the labor market caught up with an economy that shrank during most of 2008.

A controversial advertising campaign featuring the slogan 'There's probably no God.

A woman who contracted rabies while working in an African animal sanctuary has become the first Briton to die from the virus for four years.

A winter storm brought blankets of snow across Europe on Monday, forcing the closure of an icy Eiffel Tower in Paris and causing flight cancellations.

Princes William and Harry said Tuesday they have been granted their own royal "household" by their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

A Moroccan immigrant was installed Monday as mayor of Rotterdam, the Netherlands' second largest city, in a move hailed as a significant step for the integration of minorities in the European Union nation.Ahmed Aboutaleb, who has dual Dutch-Moroccan citizenship, is the first Moroccan-born immigrant to be appointed a Dutch mayor. Some have compared his achievement to that of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.'Obama on the Maas ... is maybe going a bit far,' said Jan Franssen, the Dutch queen's representative for South Holland province, referring to the river that runs through Rotterdam. 'But the significance is great. This proves that there is no glass ceiling for immigrants in the Netherlands.'

Thermometers are plunging across Europe, and so is the pressure in the natural-gas pipelines connecting the continent with its key supplier, Russia. But no one is pushing the panic button yet. The five-day-old gas war between Moscow and Kiev appears worse than in past years, aggravated by Ukraine's deepening financial and political crises and Russia's urgent need to refloat its floundering state budget by raising gas prices. Europe, watching closely, has sufficient gas reserves to see it through any short-term crisis and has officially declined to take sides.

Parviz Shahbazov: I would like to note that the leadership of Azerbaijan, that supports the resolution of the Karabakh conflict, has been taking all possible measures in this direction and in the future it intends to continue efforts in this direction. Yet, there is a limit to the patience of Azerbaijani people. Under international law, application of force against the territorial integrity allows Azerbaijan to give an adequate response. In case the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is not restored, there will not be peace and stability in the region. The future development of the South Caucasus region depends on the resolution of the Karabakh conflict.

THE European Union, responding to the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, said yesterday that it would provide 3 million euro in emergency aid for Palestinians living there.

Rachel Ward as Meggie Cleary and Richard Chamberlain as priest Ralph de Bricassart in the 1983 television production of The Thorn Birds.

Before a meeting of German coalition leaders Monday to agree to the outlines of a second stimulus package, deep divisions were evident over whether to pursue near-term tax cuts in an effort to boost growth - a ...

About 12,000 people marched through London Saturday in protest against Israel's military offensive on Gaza, police said, in a demonstration that began peacefully but ended in a string of arrests.

Two foreign journalists _ a Briton and a Spaniard _ were released Sunday after nearly six weeks in captivity in Somalia, a regional official said.The journalists, reporter Colin Freeman of The Sunday Telegraph and freelance photographer Jose Cendon, were working on a piracy story when they were kidnapped in November.'The journalists were released and all details will be given to the media once we hold a press conference in the coming hours,' said Muse Gelle Yusuf, a governor in the semiautonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia.