CALIFORNIA - team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang.
BRUSSELS - Head of EP Foreign Affairs Committee: Foreign policy will move "from one era to another" with Lisbon Treaty - EU will eventually have its own army
BRUSSELS - An article in Le Monde on the upcoming Irish referendum reports that three possible scenarios are being discussed in Brussels should there be a no vote.
EUROPE - There are a number of significant EU events next week
ZIMBABWE - Zimbabwe's generals have mounted a "military coup by stealth", reducing President Robert Mugabe to a "figurehead", a senior western diplomat said.
LONDON - Speeches and a scientific meeting next month will kick off 18 months of events to celebrate the impact and lasting legacy of Charles Darwin, whose theories on evolution are still causing waves 150 years later.
BERLIN - In his first visit to the West as Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev arrives in Berlin Thursday for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
USA - The annual secretive meeting of representatives from Western European countries and North American countries, known as Bilderberg Group, is scheduled to begin tomorrow in the Washington D.C., area.
CANADA - A priest is being investigated as a potential criminal under a federal "hate crimes" law for quoting from the Bible, and he's being targeted using a Canadian provision under which no defendant ever has been acquitted, according to a new report.
AUSTRALIA - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Wednesday that he wants to see an Asia-Pacific Community by 2020 structured similar to the European Union
USA - When Barack Obama speaks at the Democratic Convention on August 28, it will be the 45th anniversary of the day Martin Luther King told America that he 'had a dream' of a more equal country. King, of course, paid for his dream with an assassin's bullet.
ENGLAND - Councils have used laws designed to combat terrorism to access more than 900 people's private phone and email records in the latest example of Britain's growing surveillance state.
USA - US Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama said Wednesday that Jerusalem must remain the "undivided" capital of Israel in a speech to a powerful US-Israel lobby group here.
PARIS - Ministers from the United States, the European Union, India, Brazil, Japan and other World Trade Organization countries will discuss ways out of the stalemate with just weeks remaining before the WTO's Doha round risks suffering another long delay.
SAN FRANCISCO - After two years of below-average rainfall in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a statewide drought on Wednesday.