updated Sat Sep 05 2009 11:52:51
An oil deal and trade concerns with Libya were at one point considered as factors in the Lockerbie bomber's release, British Justice Secretary Jack Straw said in an interview published Saturday.
updated Sat Sep 05 2009 10:26:58
At least 15 people are dead after a tourist boat sunk in a lake in southwest Macedonia on Saturday morning, a government spokesman told CNN.
updated Fri Sep 04 2009 14:11:16
A Russian writer who contradicted some authorities by suggesting that the hijacked cargo ship Arctic Sea was carrying something other than timber was fired after he fled Russia because of threats, he told CNN Friday.
updated Fri Sep 04 2009 13:58:55
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somalia-born writer, activist, and former member of the Dutch Parliament. She is an outspoken advocate for women's rights in Islamic society and a strong critic of Muslim extremism.
updated Fri Sep 04 2009 13:13:27
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updated Fri Sep 04 2009 11:17:06
Success in Afghanistan will be measured by progress in training local military and police to take over their own security, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday.
updated Fri Sep 04 2009 08:32:32
A detainee at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be transferred to Belgium, officials announced Friday.
updated Thu Sep 03 2009 16:22:00
Greek voters will go to the polls to elect a new government two years early, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis announced Thursday.
updated Thu Sep 03 2009 07:59:33
A Russian Supreme Court ruling on Thursday streamlined the probe of a well-known journalist's killing three years ago, an attorney told CNN.
updated Thu Sep 03 2009 00:30:55
The Scottish Parliament on Wednesday formally condemned the decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbeset al Megrahi from prison in a blistering rebuke to the government that made the decision.
updated Thu Sep 03 2009 00:22:20
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi has been at the center of a furious controversy over his release from prison, forcing Prime Minister Gordon Brown to deny that London made a deal with Libya to set him free. Here CNN explains the complicated case.
updated Wed Sep 02 2009 07:47:03
Libya warned the United Kingdom that if the Lockerbie bomber died in prison in Scotland, it would have "catastrophic effects for the relationship between Libya and the U.K.," documents declassified Tuesday show.
updated Wed Sep 02 2009 07:14:10
At least 20 world leaders gathered Tuesday in Poland to commemorate the start of World War II 70 years ago -- a conflict in which 6 million Poles died.
updated Wed Sep 02 2009 02:03:00
Iran has "prepared an updated nuclear package" and is ready to hold talks with world powers, the country's state-run Press TV reported Tuesday.
updated Tue Sep 01 2009 17:01:17
"I am praying every day that I will see my parents before I die," the Lockerbie bomber wrote in a plea to be set free from a Scottish jail, previously secret documents released Tuesday by the Scottish government show.
updated Tue Sep 01 2009 16:27:42
On a sand swept stretch of Afghanistan, a high-ranking Polish general put his country's mission there into perspective.
updated Tue Sep 01 2009 14:24:55
An online petition demanding a formal apology from the British government for its treatment of World War II code-breaker Alan Turing is gaining momentum.
updated Tue Sep 01 2009 14:05:23
Families and friends of the more than 300 people killed in Russia's worst school massacre marked the fifth anniversary of the tragedy Tuesday.
updated Tue Sep 01 2009 12:13:10
Hours after Turkey and Armenia announced a tentative, Swiss-mediated peace deal, opposition politicians in Turkey were blasting the proposal.
updated Mon Aug 31 2009 13:35:25
The British government did not make a deal to send the Lockerbie bomber home in exchange for an oil contract with Libya, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said Monday.
updated Mon Aug 31 2009 08:53:14
British Justice Minister Jack Straw denied Sunday that the Lockerbie bomber was freed from jail as part of an agreement to allow a British energy company to drill for oil in Libya.
updated Sat Aug 29 2009 02:31:59
Oasis front man Noel Gallagher has quit the rock group after a fallout with his bandmate brother, he announced late Friday.
updated Fri Aug 28 2009 16:30:13
German federal prosecutors said Friday they have arrested a man suspected of helping a terrorist cell that allegedly plotted attacks against U.S. troops in Germany.
updated Fri Aug 28 2009 15:10:18
You don't want to monkey around on a blind date, especially if your friends are also taking an interest in the same dark, handsome stranger.
updated Fri Aug 28 2009 08:33:55
A Dutch court intervened Friday to stop a 13-year-old girl from attempting to sail around the world by herself, stripping her parents of sole custody.
updated Thu Aug 27 2009 23:40:16
Iran has limited time to return to international talks on its nuclear program before it faces stiffer sanctions, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters.
updated Thu Aug 27 2009 14:39:30
Four people were killed and five were seriously injured in a train crash in Turkey, Turkish State Railways announced Thursday. Twelve people were lightly injured, it said.
updated Thu Aug 27 2009 12:48:14
A Dutch Court will decide the fate Friday of 13-year-old Laura Dekker, either making her a potential world-record-breaking sailor, or returning her to school.
updated Wed Aug 26 2009 09:24:35
Climate change activists were converging on the center of London on Wednesday for a week-long protest intended to highlight the dangers of economic growth on the environment.
updated Tue Aug 25 2009 13:24:36
Greek firefighters planned to continue to work through the night to contain dozens of wildfires, including a massive blaze outside Athens, authorities said.
updated Tue Aug 25 2009 12:48:57
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday he was outraged and "repulsed" by the celebratory welcome given to a man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
updated Tue Aug 25 2009 12:46:55
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday he was outraged and "repulsed" by the celebratory welcome given to a man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
updated Tue Aug 25 2009 06:44:19
Four policemen were killed by a suicide bomber Tuesday in southern Chechnya, the office of the Chechen president said.
updated Mon Aug 24 2009 22:49:10
An act of compassion or an undercover deal? What is the truth about the release of Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi from the Scottish prison where the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was incarcerated?
updated Mon Aug 24 2009 20:47:41
The government official who allowed the Lockerbie bomber to go back to Libya defended his decision before an emergency session of Scotland's parliament called Monday amid growing international outrage over the move.
updated Mon Aug 24 2009 16:04:44
The capital of Greece appeared safe from wildfires that have raged for days, firefighters said Monday, but they remained on standby in anticipation of flare-ups caused by strong winds.
updated Sun Aug 23 2009 12:30:33
Firefighters spent a third day battling a spate of blazes on the suburbs around the Greek capital Sunday amid gale-force winds that whipped on the fires.
updated Sat Aug 22 2009 16:51:42
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Saturday that no deals were made with Libya while he was in power to arrange the Lockerbie bomber's release, a move that has caused outrage in the United States.
updated Sat Aug 22 2009 09:54:53
Rupert Murdoch's News International, which plans to begin charging for online content, said Thursday it was to close its free London newspaper as part of cost-cutting measures.
updated Sat Aug 22 2009 08:57:57
The release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi from prison in due to terminal illness was greeted with wideapread derision from newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, with few having good words for Scottish authorities behind the decisions.
updated Fri Aug 21 2009 22:17:33
Britain on Friday rejected claims made by the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi that the release of the Lockerbie bomber was linked to trade deals between Libya and Britain.
updated Fri Aug 21 2009 14:48:29
The cheering, flag-waving welcome that the convicted Lockerbie bomber received in Libya after being released from a life sentence was "highly objectionable," President Barack Obama said Friday.
updated Fri Aug 21 2009 12:15:22
Up to 75 migrants are missing and feared dead after a harrowing 20-day journey from northern Africa to Europe, a United Nations agency said Friday.
updated Fri Aug 21 2009 08:51:59
At least two police officers in Russia's restive region of Chechnya were killed Friday when two bombs went off in the capital, Grozny, the Russian Interior Ministry said.
updated Thu Aug 20 2009 19:41:29
The man convicted of murdering 270 people by blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, two decades ago received a boisterous welcome when his plane landed in his native Libya on Thursday.
updated Thu Aug 20 2009 19:37:58
Victims' family members and advocates are grieving anew as the only man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland -- which killed 270 people -- was released Thursday from a British prison.
updated Thu Aug 20 2009 19:29:26
Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, convicted of murdering 270 people by blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, two decades ago was returned to his native Libya on Thursday.
updated Thu Aug 20 2009 12:04:03
French investigators have ended the second phase of their search for the flight recorders from Air France Flight 447, the French air accident investigation agency BEA said Thursday.
updated Thu Aug 20 2009 10:10:15
A glimpse of something shiny on the ocean floor nine years ago led a Welsh diver to uncover a piece of local history that had been forgotten for more than a century.
updated Thu Aug 20 2009 09:10:44
The only man convicted over the Lockerbie bombing is to be released and allowed to return to Libya on compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill, Scotland's justice minister said Thursday.
updated Thu Aug 20 2009 08:38:04
Crew members from a hijacked Russian ship landed in Moscow on Thursday, nearly a month after it was commandeered off the coast of Finland.
updated Thu Aug 20 2009 03:48:39
A glimpse of something shiny on the ocean floor nine years ago led a Welsh diver to uncover a piece of local history that had been forgotten for more than a century.
updated Wed Aug 19 2009 15:50:13
Israel has expressed outrage about a Swedish newspaper article that called for an investigation into claims that Israeli soldiers may have harvested organs from dead Palestinians.
updated Wed Aug 19 2009 13:26:45
Spanish police shortened their list of most-wanted fugitives Wednesday with the capture of two suspected members of the Basque-region separatist group ETA, officials told CNN.
updated Tue Aug 18 2009 17:37:08
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi's fate hangs in the balance. The Libyan man convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombings has terminal prostate cancer and, according to his lawyers, just weeks to live.
updated Tue Aug 18 2009 16:00:46
A Scottish court has formally allowed Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi to abandon his second appeal against his conviction over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, in which 270 people were killed when an airliner was blown out of the sky.
updated Tue Aug 18 2009 12:47:34
The hijackers who seized a Russian ship and its crew had demanded a $1.5 million ransom earlier this month, an official with the insurance agency told CNN on Tuesday.
updated Tue Aug 18 2009 10:17:40
An alien with a lemon-shaped head and a jazz-themed encounter with a UFO at the Glastonbury Festival are among hundreds of UFO sightings detailed in the latest batch of documents released Monday by the UK's Ministry of Defence.
updated Tue Aug 18 2009 09:42:57
As many as 62 workers are still missing Tuesday, a day after an explosion at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant killed 12 people, a government official said.
updated Mon Aug 17 2009 20:42:47
Russian officials on Monday located a Russian cargo ship that has been missing for more than two weeks after it was believed to have been hijacked, a top official said.
updated Mon Aug 17 2009 17:37:08
As British authorities prepare to resume an inquiry into a hotel clerk's death in Basra while held by British soldiers in 2003, a video has emerged allegedly showing a British soldier abusing Iraqi prisoners.
updated Mon Aug 17 2009 16:33:32
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sacked the head of Ingushetia's police after a suicide bomber killed at least 19 people Monday.
updated Mon Aug 17 2009 14:29:12
Water pipes burst during repair work Monday at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant, causing an explosion that killed at least 10 workers and left 68 missing, Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu told reporters.
updated Mon Aug 17 2009 14:17:44
Just before the first anniversary of a Spanish airliner crash that killed 154 people last August 20 at Madrid's airport, government investigators released a report Monday, saying technical and human errors may have contributed to the accident.
updated Mon Aug 17 2009 11:28:13
Whether or not it had anything more dangerous than a cargo of timber on board, cargo ship Arctic Sea, which was found Monday after vanishing for two weeks, certainly carries the answers to an intriguing maritime mystery.
updated Mon Aug 17 2009 03:57:16
And now a public service announcement from the British foreign office:
updated Sun Aug 16 2009 07:24:11
Two soldiers wounded by explosions in southern Afghanistan have died , bringing to 201 the number of British troops killed in the country since 2001, officials said Sunday.
updated Sat Aug 15 2009 19:14:49
Britain says it has suspended the government of the Turks and Caicos Islands and imposed direct rule after allegations of systemic corruption and "serious dishonesty".
updated Sat Aug 15 2009 11:47:00
A ransom has been demanded for a missing Russian cargo ship which vanished two weeks ago after being involved in a suspected hijacking off the coast of Sweden last month, Finnish police told CNN Saturday.
updated Fri Aug 14 2009 20:38:58
A missing Russian cargo ship is in international waters north of Cape Verde, according to Portugal's state news agency, which quoted Cape Verde's defense director.
updated Fri Aug 14 2009 14:48:22
A Libyan man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, is dropping his appeal, the Scottish Court Service said Friday.
updated Fri Aug 14 2009 12:34:13
The much-maligned symbol of motoring in Communist East Germany, the Trabant, is set to make an unlikely comeback as a concept car at this year's International Motor Show in Frankfurt.
updated Fri Aug 14 2009 08:50:00
A black politician campaigning in eastern Germany has become the victim of a racist campaign by a far-right party.
updated Fri Aug 14 2009 03:46:46
There have been efforts to regulate the treatment of civilians and combatants in war since the beginning of recorded history.
updated Thu Aug 13 2009 20:10:28
Pan Am Flight 103 was 31,000 feet in the air, heading for New York City, when it exploded over Scotland on the longest night of the year, December 21, 1988, killing 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground below.
updated Thu Aug 13 2009 15:04:50
The Scottish government have said no decision has been made on releasing the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
updated Wed Aug 12 2009 18:43:33
An international search was under way Wednesday for a cargo ship that vanished after its crew reported they were hijacked -- at least briefly -- nearly two weeks ago.
updated Wed Aug 12 2009 16:45:06
London police have arrested a man in connection with a brazen daylight robbery of a jewelry store last week, they announced Wednesday.
updated Wed Aug 12 2009 12:13:48
A Moroccan man wanted for links to the Madrid train bombings in 2004 was brought to Spain from France on Wednesday, a Spanish police statement said.
updated Wed Aug 12 2009 11:16:42
Spanish police have arrested an 18-year-old for allegedly trying to sell nude photographs of his 11-year-old sister in exchange for a car, police told CNN on Wednesday.
updated Wed Aug 12 2009 09:10:02
Two men are being sought for questioning in the brazen daylight robbery of a jewelry store last week, in which some $65 million in merchandise was stolen, authorities said Tuesday.
updated Wed Aug 12 2009 07:32:51
As the defenders of a besieged Bosnian town prepared to retreat, the prisoners of war held captive in the local jail feared the worst.
updated Tue Aug 11 2009 16:08:12
Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece the "Mona Lisa" was attacked with a mug earlier this month, but the world's most famous painting -- protected by thick glass -- emerged with its enigmatic smile undimmed.
updated Tue Aug 11 2009 12:11:51
Britons, Germans and other tourists on the Spanish island of Mallorca "can feel safe because they aren't targets of the ETA terrorist band," which recently bombed the popular resort, Spain's interior minister said Tuesday.
updated Tue Aug 11 2009 11:07:44
Treating flu-stricken children with anti-viral medication including Tamiflu and Relenza could do more harm than good, a new report has warned.
updated Tue Aug 11 2009 09:49:40
A German court has convicted a former army officer of 10 counts of murder in what could be one of the last trials of Nazi-era crimes.
updated Tue Aug 11 2009 09:10:45
The head of a humanitarian agency in Chechnya and her husband were found dead early Tuesday, their bodies stuffed in the trunk of their car, a prosecutor's spokeswoman said.
updated Mon Aug 10 2009 12:17:20
DNA testing to try to identify hundreds of bodies buried in a mass grave during World War I will start this week, the British and Australian ministries of defense announced Monday.
updated Mon Aug 10 2009 10:01:52
The separatist group behind a series of bombings on a Spanish vacation island marks the 50 year anniversary of its struggle this year, a milestone that sees it no closer to achieving its goal.
updated Sun Aug 09 2009 17:15:44
Three bombs exploded on the Spanish tourist island of Mallorca on Sunday, but no one was hurt, according to Spanish news outlets.
updated Sun Aug 09 2009 08:08:49
Britain cannot guarantee that its allies are not torturing terror suspects, two top government ministers said Sunday.
updated Fri Aug 07 2009 12:12:22
The Portuguese government has agreed to accept two Syrian detainees from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Portuguese government said Friday.
updated Fri Aug 07 2009 10:10:58
One year after Russian tanks rolled into the former Soviet republic of Georgia, the conflict that erupted over a breakaway territory continues to stoke tensions in the region, with repercussions around the world.
updated Fri Aug 07 2009 08:05:14
A pregnant British woman, who was jailed in Laos on drug charges, arrived in London Friday after being handed over to British authorities to serve her sentence at home.
updated Fri Aug 07 2009 00:54:17
Nine people died and three more were hospitalized after a fire ripped through an elderly home in northern Belgium Thursday night, a government spokeswoman said.
updated Thu Aug 06 2009 23:02:56
The last British soldier to serve in World War I was buried Thursday, marking "the passing of a generation," the British veterans minister said.
updated Thu Aug 06 2009 14:36:01
A suspected pedophile surrendered to police after German law enforcement published clips from videos of child pornography allegedly showing the man.
updated Thu Aug 06 2009 10:41:00
Spanish police Thursday arrested a suspected member of the Basque separatist group who is wanted for six killings in the 1980s, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
updated Wed Aug 05 2009 20:29:01
He has been caught on camera firing a tranquilizer dart into a Siberian tiger and has co-piloted a fighter jet. Now Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has added to his action-man credentials with a series of photographs showing a recent adventure vacation to Siberia.
