BELGRADE - Russia's likely next president, Dmitry Medvedev, told Serbian leaders on Monday there would be no shift in his country's support for Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo.
NAIROBI - Talks to end Kenya's political crisis reached a standstill on Monday and negotiators from both sides said President Mwai Kibaki and rival Raila Odinga must now make the hard decisions on sharing power themselves.
NICOSIA - Newly-elected Cyprus President Demetris Christofias came under immediate pressure on Monday to make good on promised efforts to reunite the divided Mediterranean island.
ROME - Italy's Catholic Church has accused the national medical association of playing politics over abortion, joining a passionate debate in the run up to a parliamentary election in April.
Computers the size of blood cells will create fully immersive virtual realities by 2033, leading inventor Ray Kurzweil has predicted.
The time has come for a referendum on whether Britain should stay in the EU, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said.
"Jerusalem should not be up for negotiation," Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar declared, joining a similar statement a day earlier made by his Ashkenazi counterpart Rabbi Yonah Metzger. "The Temple Mount is the heart and soul of the Land of Israel and there is no Jewish unity without the unity of the Land of Israel."
More than two thirds of the European Union's £100 million annual budget for Euro-MPs' staff is paid without full receipts, according to the EU's most senior auditors.
Fidel Castro's resignation has ended almost 50 years as president and commander in chief of Cuba. Castro took power in a 1959 revolution, and was the world's third longest-serving head of state
The multi-million pound Fairtrade industry has been accused of failing to help the world's most impoverished farmers as Britain's second biggest sugar firm announced plans to convert its entire range to the scheme.
A couple who were advised to abort their baby when doctors said he had a rare brain disorder have spoken of their joy after their "miracle son" was born in perfect health.
Tax inspectors have been given wideranging new powers to bug people's homes and private phone calls. They also have the go-ahead to intercept emails and plant listening devices in suspects' cars and offices.
Senior police officers are increasing pressure for all British citizens to be put on a DNA database. Their call for a national debate on whether everyone should be forced to give DNA samples to the authorities follows last week's convictions of two killers identified using "genetic fingerprints."
Drought. War. Poverty. These are leading causes of hunger, according to the United Nations. Soon we may add another - Ethanol.
It is often the case when people are sinking deeper into sin and reaping the consequences of it - that they will strike out at God - and even his representatives - instead of coming to their senses and changing their ways.