Pope Benedict said in his New Year’s message on Tuesday he hoped 2013 would be a year of peace and that the world was under threat from unbridled capitalism, terrorism and criminality.
The 85-year-old pope rang in the new year with a mass for about 10,000 people in St Peter’s Basilica on the day the Roman Catholic Church marks its World Day of Peace with initiatives...
Dear Compatriots,
Year 2012 is coming to its end. First and foremost, it was a year of hard work, a year for creation and life. In 2012, almost thirty-three thousand young people in our countries started families, filling our Motherland with the blessings of the wedding and love. Let year 2013 bring happiness and security to the Armenian hearths.
In the passing year, the...
One of hundreds of attacks reported in New Delhi each year, the gang rape and murder of a medical student caught Indian authorities and political parties flat-footed, slow to see that the assault on a private bus had come to symbolize an epidemic of crime against women.
In the moments before the December 16 attack, the 23-year-old woman from India’s urban...
First they made the toilet talk and now a new invention fromJapanhas brought the power of speech to another everyday item.
Perfect if you find mealtimes a little dull, this new invention is certain to inject a bit of interest in to your lunch … it’s the fork that talks to you. Kind of.
The EsTheremine is a fork-like instrument that likes to play sounds as...
Three Greeks were arrested on suspicion of trying to defraud the national tourism board, police said on Saturday, and the finance ministry is investigating a suspected 12-million-euro hole in the state agency’s books.
Tourism is one of cash-strapped Greece’s few remaining money-spinners and the EOT tourism board is in charge of funding several promotion campaigns...
Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that its budget surplus hit 386 billion riyals ($102.9 billion) in 2012 as oil-dominated revenues surged, according to state television. Revenues were expected to reach 1.24 trillion riyals ($330.4 billion) by the end of the year, while expenditure would be 853 billion riyals ($227.5 billion), Al-Ekhbariyah TV reported, citing the finance...
A Russian passenger plane with up to 12 people on board split into three pieces after sliding off a runway and crashing into a highway outside a Moscow airport on Saturday, officials said.
A photograph posted on the Internet showed a wrecked plane on a highway outside Vnukovo airport, with smoke billowing from the back end and only a mangled part of the front half visible.
“After...
A woman whose gang rape sparked protests and a national debate about violence against women in India died of her injuries on Saturday, prompting a security lockdown in New Delhi and an acknowledgement from India’s prime minister that social change is needed.
The six suspects held in connection with the December 16 attack on the 23-year-old medical student on a New...
France’s highest constitutional authority on Saturday struck down the 75 percent tax rate on earnings over one million euros, one of the centrepieces of Socialist President Francois Hollande’s 2013 budget adopted by parliament.
The Constitutional Council also also rejected new methods for calculating the wealth tax, the council said in a statement.
Two men and a woman have been arrested after a severed pig’s head was left at the doors of a Muslim place of worship.
Police were called on Boxing Day morning after the sick gesture was discovered at the entrance to the community centre in the Thurnby Lodge area of Leicester.
Shocked Muslim locals today expressed their disgust at the ‘attack on their culture’...
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