The Royal Navy has confirmed that Britain's HMS Vanguard and France's Le Triomphant nuclear-powered submarines, which were both carrying nuclear weapons, collided earlier this month in the Atlantic Ocean.
The EU's health commissioner has warned member states that they need to conduct twice as many cancer screenings if they are to tackle this deadly scourge. When it comes to breast cancer, the Netherlands are showing the way.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic will face two charges of genocide - for crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 and for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre -, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announced.
Spanish surfers in the Canary Islands pulled six survivors from the ocean, but an additional 19 dead bodies were found between Sunday evening and Monday morning. The islands are often a stopover for Africans trying to reach Europe.
In an interview on Russian TV, President Dmitry Medvedev (pictured) announced a $1.3 billion aid package aimed at generating jobs in small and medium-sized businesses as national unemployment levels mount.
The Royal Navy has confirmed that Britain's HMS Vanguard and France's Le Triomphant nuclear-powered submarines, which were both carrying nuclear weapons, collided earlier this month in the Atlantic Ocean.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (pictured) said she had not ruled out nationalising the troubled Hypo Real Estate (HRE) bank. She told Germany's public channel ZDF that she would want the state to have a majority stake in the bank.
A poll showed growing support for the European Union's reform treaty in Ireland, with 51 percent of respondents saying they would vote "Yes", an increase of eight points since November, and 33 percent saying "No", a drop of six points.
Around 300 people gathered in central Moscow on Sunday in memory of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasiya Baburova, gunned down in Moscow on January 19. "No to political murders," they chanted.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (pictured) criticised banks for giving out executive bonuses despite taking government funds to help them through the financial crisis, calling for bonuses to be "more clearly linked" to long-term performance.
