Two Frenchmen and a German won the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries of viruses that cause HIV and cervical cancer, the organization's Web site said Monday.
A local passenger train ran into the back of an long-distance train Monday near Budapest, killing four people and injuring 26.
Pope Benedict XVI's "In the beginning" started off a weeklong Bible-reading marathon on Italian television Sunday.
Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good.
Some say Poland is the biggest of the "small countries" in the European Union. Others call it the smallest of the "big countries."
Nearly a fourth of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction, a leading international conservation group said Monday as it unveiled its latest global study of the problem.
At 51 years of age, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has come a long way. As part of the Kashubian minority living in the Gdansk Region, he was born to working-class parents -- his father a carpenter and his mother a nurse.
In April 2007, UEFA's executive committee voted to accept a joint proposal from Poland and Ukraine to host the European football Championships in 2012.
Before its occupation by Nazi Germany in 1939, Poland was home to Europe's largest Jewish community, and its capital Warsaw was the continent's largest Jewish city.
Pope Benedict XVI's "In the beginning" started off a weeklong Bible-reading marathon on Italian television Sunday.
Two Frenchmen and a German won the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries of viruses that cause HIV and cervical cancer, the organization's Web site said Monday.
A local passenger train ran into the back of an long-distance train Monday near Budapest, killing four people and injuring 26.
Pope Benedict XVI's "In the beginning" started off a weeklong Bible-reading marathon on Italian television Sunday.
Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good.
Some say Poland is the biggest of the "small countries" in the European Union. Others call it the smallest of the "big countries."
Nearly a fourth of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction, a leading international conservation group said Monday as it unveiled its latest global study of the problem.
At 51 years of age, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has come a long way. As part of the Kashubian minority living in the Gdansk Region, he was born to working-class parents -- his father a carpenter and his mother a nurse.
In April 2007, UEFA's executive committee voted to accept a joint proposal from Poland and Ukraine to host the European football Championships in 2012.
Before its occupation by Nazi Germany in 1939, Poland was home to Europe's largest Jewish community, and its capital Warsaw was the continent's largest Jewish city.
Pope Benedict XVI's "In the beginning" started off a weeklong Bible-reading marathon on Italian television Sunday.
Russian troops began dismantling positions Sunday in the so-called security zones inside Georgia they have occupied since August's brief but intense war, a Georgian Interior Ministry official said.
A U.N. nuclear conference of 145 nations indirectly criticized Israel on Saturday for refusing to put its atomic program under international purview.
A man in eastern Austria used a homemade firebomb to kill his wife's elderly parents, police said Saturday.
A car has exploded outside the Russian military headquarters in South Ossetia, killing seven people and wounding several others.
A new space race is officially under way, and this one should have the sci-fi geeks salivating.
What do Copernicus and a Britney Spears look-a-like have in common? Despite centuries separating the two, both have inspired greatness in Poland.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reached into the past to save his future Friday, recruiting stars from the Tony Blair era into his Cabinet.
Irish President Mary McAleese has signed a sweeping bank-guarantee bill into law, granting protection to all deposits with Irish-owned banks.
The UK's top police officer, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair, announced his resignation Thursday after being urged to step down by London mayor Boris Johnson.
A nonthreatening amount of melamine has been found in a milkshake at a Chinese restaurant in southern Austria, the Health Ministry said Thursday.
Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland's former finance minister, recently said his country is enjoying "its best period in 300 years." CNN looks at how the country emerged from communism to become one of eastern Europe's most stable and thriving democracies.
A former butler who once served Queen Elizabeth II faces sentencing next month for multiple child sex offenses.
Graphic pictures showing the devastating health effects of smoking began appearing on cigarette packs in Britain on Wednesday as part of a government initiative to deter people from picking up the habit.
Spanish police have arrested 121 men and seized millions of computer files in the country's biggest operation against child pornography on the Internet.
Former Gurkha soldiers who served in the British Army have won a significant court battle in their long-running fight to settle in the UK.
The four warships that Russia is sending to Venezuela in its first deployment of military power to the Western Hemisphere since the Cold War also will visit Libya and several other Mediterranean countries, the navy said Wednesday.
Eye on Poland focuses on the color and contrast of one of Europe's fastest developing nations, explaining Poland's rising influence across the European region and the impact its people are having on the wider international stage - from business to politics to pop culture. TV Schedule
A Russian billionaire said Tuesday he is teaming up with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to form a new political party that will challenge the country's recent steps away from democracy.
European Union monitors began patrolling Georgian territory Wednesday under a French-brokered peace deal, facing a Russian military that seemed reluctant to retreat.
The Russian Supreme Court on Wednesday declared the last czar and his murdered family to be victims of political repression -- a decision that helps Russia move toward closing a chapter in its tortured history.
Italian authorities Tuesday arrested two suspects believed to be responsible for the September 18 killing of six African immigrants in Castelvolturno, a small town of 20,000 residents north of Naples.
An industrial vacuum cleaner left switched on inside the historic Cutty Sark ship was the most likely cause of the fire last year that gutted the 19th-century tea clipper, police said Tuesday.
Five German tourists held hostage in Egypt for 10 days arrived back in Germany on Tuesday, the German government announced.
A fire broke out early Monday at one of Britain's biggest children's hospitals, injuring four firefighters and forcing the hospital's cardiac wing to evacuate.
The opposition has been shut out of Belarus' parliament in elections that a major international observation organization says were significantly flawed.
Austria's future direction lay in doubt Monday after two far-right, anti-immigration parties made big gains in national elections while the governing coalition lost seats in Parliament.
Some 15,000 enthusiasts have assembled the world's largest jigsaw puzzle in the southern German town of Ravensburg, Europe's biggest puzzle maker said.
Finns on Sunday mourned the victims of a school massacre in which a lone gunman killed nine fellow students and a teacher before shooting himself.
Russia must modernize its armed forces and upgrade its nuclear deterrent, in part by building a new air and space defense network, the president said Friday.
Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy successfully crossed the English Channel using his homemade jet-propelled wing Friday, the first man to perform the feat.
Three suspects including an American student attended a second hearing in Italy on Friday in the case of a slain British student.
A Ukrainian ship seized off Somalia by pirates had 33 Russian T-72 tanks in its cargo, officials said Friday.
German federal police seized two suspected terrorists from a Dutch passenger aircraft at Cologne airport Friday shortly before it was due to take off for Amsterdam, officials told CNN.
Outside the Zekai Tahir Burak maternity hospital stands a bronze statue of a mother nursing a baby with an inscription from the Prophet Mohammed: "Paradise lies at the feet of the mother."
Dortmund Airport says an Airbus A321 passenger jet has rolled off a runway early Friday, forcing the evacuation of 168 passengers aboard.
Forensic experts in Finland have confirmed the identities of each of the 10 victims of a school massacre that caused panic among students and sparked fears of copycat attacks, police said Friday.
German police commandos grabbed two terrorist suspects from an Amsterdam-bound flight early Friday before the plane took off from Cologne, police said.
The Foreign Ministry says pirates have seized a Ukrainian-operated ship off Somalia.
A computer glitch at Britain's air traffic control center on Thursday led to delays and cancellations across the country, officials said.
Bomb threats and a flurry of menacing mobile phone messages sparked panic Thursday among students in Finland, as fears grew that copycat attacks would follow the nation's second school massacre in less than a year.
Swiss pilot Yves Rossy has been forced to postpone his attempt to cross the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing.
EU border patrol missions are scouring the Italian shore in search of yet another missing vessel carrying North Africans attempting to reach Europe, a Maltese commander told CNN Thursday.
Police in Finland have identified the 10 victims in Tuesday's college shooting as eight female students, a male student and a male teacher.
Ten people were killed Tuesday when a gunman rampaged through a Finnish college, police officials said.
Serbia's war crimes prosecutors formally launched proceedings Wednesday against a World War II veteran accused of participating in mass killings of Jews and Serbs during the Nazi occupation.
The global economic downturn is taking its toll on gastronomic traditions in France where 3,000 eateries are reported to have gone bust in the first quarter of this year alone.
The Italian government has approved the creation of a new task force of 500 soldiers who will be deployed to combat the recent wave of Mafia crime in the country.
The label on the package claimed that it contained t-shirts and baby toys.
French police have arrested two suspected ETA members, and an international alert has been put out for an ETA militant recently released from jail.
The Greek prime minister suspended one of his aides on Tuesday after he was convicted of attempting to harbor a criminal and instigating perjury in a drug dealing case.
A Spanish court on Tuesday agreed to temporarily extradite a man convicted in the 2004 Madrid train bombings to Morocco, where he faces charges in connection with the Casablanca bombings in 2003, a court spokeswoman told CNN.
The zookeeper who gained fame for hand-rearing the beloved polar bear Knut was found dead in his Berlin apartment Monday.
An infection spread by IV treatment led to the weekend deaths of 13 premature newborns at a hospital in western Turkey, a doctor investigating the deaths told the private Dogan news agency Monday.
Two British archeologists declared Monday that they have uncovered the core reason behind the construction of one of the world's best known and least understood landmarks.
Slovenia's opposition Social Democrats maneuvered Monday to wrest control of the government from Premier Janez Jansa's center-right Slovenian Democrats, despite having only a slight lead after a national election.
Getting "out of this world" with civilian space travel is not quite as simple as you may think.
It's been several years since Marek Tomasikiewicz and his family left Poland for a better life in Britain -- higher wages for him and his wife, boosted by the strength of the pound, and a better education for his daughter.
A car bomb exploded early Monday in northern Spain, killing an army soldier and wounding 10 others in an attack authorities blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA.
At the height of the troubles over the near-collapse of the Northern Rock bank a minister walked into the British Treasury and asked "How's it going?"
Two car bombs exploded in Spain's northern Basque region early Sunday, and the second one injured seven people, a Basque regional police spokesman told CNN.
Slovenians voted in parliamentary elections Sunday, choosing whether to keep the prime minister -- bruised by a corruption claim and criticized as too powerful -- in office or to turn to the leftist opposition.
Spanish officials say a second car bomb exploded in the northern Basque region, wounding seven people. Authorities have blamed separatist group ETA.
A Jettime passenger jet carrying 147 people made a successful emergency landing at Copenhagen airport in Denmark while experiencing problems with its landing gear, police said.
A German and a Turkish citizen have been arrested on suspicion of collaborating with a terrorist group whose plans for attacks on U.S. targets in Germany were foiled last year, authorities said Friday.
President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Russia would not yield to Western pressure or be pushed into isolation over the war in Georgia.
Serbia's president acknowledged Friday that he will face a tough struggle when he seeks U.N. support for his country's bid to challenge Kosovo's independence before the International Court of Justice.
Relatives of the poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, executed in 1936 by fascists during the Spanish Civil War, will not try to block a judge's order to exhume his remains from a mass grave, a niece of the poet told CNN Thursday.
Central banks around the world are pumping billions of dollars into money markets in a coordinated bid to calm global financial upheaval.
DNA analysis has confirmed that a third body found in the burnt-out mansion of millionaire Christopher Foster was that of his 15-year-old daughter, police said Thursday.
Police say a 13-foot (four-meter) German torpedo from World War II has washed up on a beach along the Baltic coast.
U.N. prosecutors said Wednesday they planned to file a new indictment against Radovan Karadzic within days to update the eight-year-old charges against the former Bosnian Serb leader.
A passenger jet that crashed last month in Madrid did not have its wing flaps deployed during takeoff, and a cockpit warning system failed to alert pilots to the problem, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN on Tuesday.
Russia issued an unusually harsh condemnation Wednesday of the NATO chief's visit to Georgia, saying it showed a Cold War mentality and would further destabilize the region.
A Spanish court on Wednesday convicted 21 people, ruling that their work on behalf of prisoners from the Basque separatist group ETA actually went deeper, with secretive links to the armed separatists themselves.
Russia moved to bolster the country's increasingly stressed banking sector Wednesday, as the global economic turmoil deepened fears that the country could face a crisis similar to the one 10 years ago.
Dutch police have recovered five 17th-century paintings, including a Jan Steen, more than six years after they were snatched from the Frans Hals Museum, the museum said Tuesday.
A sale of pickled sharks, butterfly paintings and other pieces by provocative British artist Damien Hirst has raised $198 million, silencing his doubters and defying the global economic gloom.
A judge ruled Tuesday that the case against one of three suspects in the slaying last November of British student Meredith Kercher will go to trial separately and on a fast track.
Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday outlawed a leftist political party for its links to the Basque separatist group ETA, and ordered its immediate dissolution.
President Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday accused Russia of seeking to destabilize Ukraine by encouraging separatists on the volatile Crimean peninsula, but vowed that the Kremlin would not succeed.
NATO's chief declared Tuesday that Russian tanks and troops cannot block Georgia from joining NATO, but he acknowledged internal disagreement over how long the pro-Western nation must wait for membership in the alliance.
Spanish investigators probing last month's plane crash in Madrid that killed 154 people say the wing flaps did not deploy during takeoff, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday.
The European Union stepped up its engagement in Georgia on Monday, launching an observer mission to oversee the withdrawal of Russian troops, appointing a special envoy to coordinate diplomatic efforts and preparing a major increase in economic aid.
A U.S. student suspected in the slaying of her British housemate in Italy arrived in court Tuesday for a hearing to determine whether she, her former Italian boyfriend and an African man must face trial.
The pilot of the Aeroflot jet that crashed killing all 88 people on board ignored commands from air traffic controllers, probably contributing to Russia's worst air disaster in two years, according to news reports Monday.
The Church of England owes Charles Darwin an apology for its hostile 19th-century reaction to the naturalist's theory of evolution, a cleric wrote on an Anglican Web site launched Monday.
Britain's Prince William plans to become a full-time search-and-rescue pilot in the Royal Air Force, royal officials said Monday.
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