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COCKERMOUTH, United Kingdom—Britain's flood-hit northwest braced Saturday for more devastation after river levels rose again and forecasters warned of more rain following unprecedented torrential deluges.
08:44:26 2009-11-22
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A United Nations summit on the plight of the planet's one billion hungry opens here Monday, with activists warning it risks being a waste of time as leaders of the world's wealthiest nations are to be conspicuous by their absence.
11:06:14 2009-11-16
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AUSCHWITZ, Poland—Many Europeans, especially Germans, delude themselves and say that the Holocaust—the systematic massacre of Jews and other minorities in World War II—did not happen.
09:37:25 2009-11-08
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Two decades after the collapse of communism, Central European states have undergone an unprecedented metamorphosis from command to market economies that experts say was never guaranteed to succeed.
08:59:45 2009-11-02
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European Union leaders gather Thursday to weigh candidates to head a new-look European Union, with former British premier Tony Blair and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker vying for the top job.
13:36:36 2009-10-28
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AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands — Tuesday marked the 905th day of the disappearance of Jonas Burgos, an agriculturist and land rights activist who was forcibly abducted by armed men in broad daylight in Quezon City in the Philippines. He would have been 38 years old.
12:40:28 2009-10-28
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Supporters of Italy's Democratic Party on Sunday elected former minister Pierluigi Bersani as new leader of the center-left opposition, organizers said.
08:12:15 2009-10-26
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BRUSSELS, Belgium—Now that the Czech president looks set to sign the Lisbon treaty and create a new-look European Union, the great Brussels jobs steeplechase gets underway in earnest this week.
12:38:14 2009-10-25
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British postal workers called for further industrial action next week as they entered the second day Friday of a 48-hour strike over pay, conditions, and modernization.
14:06:28 2009-10-23
