France’s Jean-Marc Ayrault (right), head of the Socialist Party in parliament and long-time ally of President François Hollande, officially assumed his position as the country’s new prime minister during a swearing-in ceremony in Paris on Wednesday.
A report released by Amnesty International on Wednesday accused the armed groups of Tuareg rebels and Islamists who seized northern Mali after a coup in March of being responsible for the country's worst human rights crisis in half a century.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will attend a NATO summit in the US this weekend as the two countries looked set to reach a deal on reopening supply lines to Afghanistan, closed after a NATO air strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November.
UN-Arab League mediator Kofi Annan has urged Syria's government to allow the UN unhindered access to the more than one million people left in need of humanitarian aid after 15 months of conflict.
Author Carlos Fuentes died on Tuesday at a Mexico City hospital at the age of 83, the National Council for Culture and the Arts has confirmed. Mexico’s best-known novelist was celebrated for his writings on the failures of the Mexican revolution.
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn filed a $1 million countersuit on Tuesday for defamation and other charges against Nafissatou Diallo, the Sofitel hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault a year ago.
Former News International chief executive and editor of the now-defunct "News of the World" tabloid Rebekah Brooks, her husband and four others have been charged with perverting the course of justice over a phone-hacking scandal.
Just around the corner from Madrid’s Puerta del Sol plaza, the epicentre of Spain’s “Indignados” movement, which is celebrating its first anniversary, dozens of protesters lined up outside a bank Monday to close their accounts. Read more...
Official figures show the eurozone was flat in the first quarter of the year, though it did manage to avoid dipping into a recession. France also stagnated, whereas Germany posted a surprising 0.5 % growth.
A man set himself alight on Tuesday outside the court in Norway where Anders Behring Breivik is facing trial for attacks last July that left 77 people dead. The man, whose motivations remain unknown, was transported to a nearby hospital.
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