Hungary’s national carrier Malev ceased operations Friday, grounding all its flights and stranding more than 7,000 passengers after some of its planes were held overseas for unpaid debts.
A senior Russian official on Friday said his country could not support a Western-Arab draft UN Security Council resolution condemning violence in Syria, even though the text had been revised to take some Russian concerns into account.
The activist hacker group Anonymous has intercepted and published a sensitive phone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard – discussing how to fight hacking. The FBI said it was investigating the matter.
The two US female tourists and their Egyptian guide who were kidnapped Friday morning in the Sinai have been released unharmed, security sources have said.
China’s premier Wen Jiabao (pictured) pledged his country’s cooperation to help Europe fight its debt crisis during a meeting Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel but denied it meant China wanted to “buy Europe”.
The US jobless rate dropped to a three-year low of 8.3 percent and the economy created 243,000 jobs in January, marking the fastest employment growth in nine months, the Labor Department said Friday.
A south Sinai security official said Friday that unidentified gunmen had intercepted a tourist minivan and kidnapped two female American tourists and their Egyptian tour guide at gunpoint near St. Catherine's Monastery.
The UN Somalia Food Security Nutrition Analysis Unit and the US famine warning network FEWS NET said in a statement Friday that famine conditions have ended in Somalia, but that humanitarian conditions are still dire.
Europe's cold snap has claimed at least 139 lives across Eastern Europe and Germany. The Ukraine is the hardest-hit nation, with 63 dead. France has put around a quarter of its administrative departments on orange alert.
Rugby's Six Nations tournament kicks off Saturday, with France set to play Italy at the Stade de France. France made it through to the last World Cup finals, but Italy beat Les Bleus in last year's Six Nations.
