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Strippers dressed as nuns performed at Silvio Berlusconi parties, says model Imane Fadil
Model Imane Fadil, a witness at the trial of Silvio Berlusconi, has said strippers dressed as nuns performed for the former Italian prime minister...
Anders Breivik pleaded not guilty at Norway massacre trial
Anders Behring Breivik, the man who carried out bomb and gun attacks in Norway last year which left 77 people dead, has pleaded not...
Anders Breivik goes on trial for Norway massacre
Anders Behring Breivik, the man who carried out a bomb and gun attack in Norway last year that left 77 people dead, has gone...
Ksenia, the world’s cutest cat
Ksenia, a Scottish Fold feline from Russia, is what thousands of internet users are calling the world's cutest cat. Ksenia, a charcoal moggy, first appeared...
Piermario Morosini dies on the pitch following a suspected heart attack
Italian midfielder Piermario Morosini has died following a suspected heart attack on the pitch in Pescara, football officials say. Ex-Italy under-21 footballer was playing for...
King Juan Carlos of Spain hospitalized for hip replacement surgery following a fall
King Juan Carlos of Spain has undergone hip replacement surgery following a fall on a private trip to Botswana, the Royal Palace has said. King...
Heidi Hankins, 4, accepted into Mensa with 159 IQ
Heidi Hankins, a 4-year-old girl from Hampshire, UK, has been accepted into Mensa with 159 IQ, just one point below Albert Einstein and Stephen...
Nicolas Sarkozy has admitted Fukushima gaffe
Nicolas Sarkozy has admitted he did not visit Fukushima on a visit to Japan after last year's tsunami, despite saying he had. Election rival Francois...
Cezanne’s Boy in a Red Waistcoat stolen from a Swiss museum recovered in Serbia
Serbian police has recovered a Cezanne painting stolen in a raid on a Swiss museum in 2008. Authorities have not named the painting, but local...
Die Weltwoche sparks outrage in Germany with racist Gypsies story
The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma (Gypsies) has gone to court to get Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche banned in the country after...
Euro 2012: Michel Platini slams Ukraine hotel owners for rising price ahead of championships
Michel Platini, the president of UEFA, has hit out at "bandits and crooks" for the escalation of Ukrainian hotel prices ahead of the Euro...
Relatives of Titanic victims throw roses off Southampton dockside
Relatives of victims of the Titanic today threw roses off the Southampton dockside in memory of their loved ones during a moving 100th anniversary...
Titanic Memorial Cruise forced to turn round after a passenger became unwell on board
Titanic Memorial Cruise has been forced to turn round just hours after leaving the dock, having set sail to retrace the doomed liner's voyage...
Anders Breivik declared sane after a second psychiatric evaluation
Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has been found sane enough to face trial and a jail term after a second psychiatric evaluation. The findings...
Collection of 200,000 Titanic-related records published online
A collection of more than 200,000 records relating to the Titanic has been published online to mark the 100th anniversary from the ship's sinking...
Prince Harry is spending the Easter weekend in Romania
Prince Harry of Wales is spending the Easter weekend in a picturesque Transylvanian village in the heart of Romania, local media reported on Sunday. Prince...
Titanic Memorial Cruise aboard of MS Balmoral ship to mark 100th anniversary
Relatives of some who died on the Titanic have set sail aboard of MS Balmoral to retrace the journey of the doomed liner to...
Pope Benedict XVI delivers his traditional Urbi et Orbi Easter message of peace
Pope Benedict XVI has delivered his traditional Urbi et Orbi (To the City and the World) Easter message of peace in front of tens...
Anonymous hacked UK Home Office website in protest against government surveillance plans
Anonymous hacking group is alleged to have disrupted access to the UK Home Office website after an apparent cyber attack in protest against government...
Russian Orthodox Church apologizes for airbrushing Patriarch Kirill’s watch photo
The Russian Orthodox Church has apologized for showing a photo of its leader Patriarch Kirill in which a luxury watch he was wearing was...
Athens clashes between protesters and riot police after pensioner suicide beside parliament
New clashes between Greek protesters and riot police took place in Athens, hours after a pensioner shot himself dead outside parliament. The 77-year-old man killed...
Serbia’s President Boris Tadic has resigned
Serbia’s President Boris Tadic has announced his resignation. Boris Tadic still has 10 months of his current term of office to serve, but the move...
Richard Descoings, head of Paris Institute of Political Studies, found dead in a New York hotel room
Richard Descoings, the head of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, one of France's most prestigious academic institutions, has been found dead in a...
Olympics 2012: risk of a flu pandemic spreading will increase at Olympic Games
The already "extreme" risk of a flu pandemic spreading in the UK will increase during the Olympics, a report has said. Britain has been ranked...
Hungary’s President Pal Schmitt resigned amid plagiarism scandal
Hungarian President Pal Schmitt has announced his resignation, after being stripped of his doctorate over plagiarism. Pal Schmitt, 69, elected in 2010, said "my personal issue...
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