No tweeting from the stadium: visitors to London 2012 will be forbidden from posting photos and videos on social media networks. The Olympic Committee has produced a guide on how to share the games online, while adhering to the rules. And a punch-up in the Ukrainian parliament; deputies come to blows over a controversial Russian language bill.
Lawmakers in Ukraine's parliament traded punches after a debate over the use of Russian language in the country descended into chaos on Thursday. Opposition MP Mykola Petruk had to be taken to hospital with blood streaming out of a head wound.
Ukraine's former PM Yulia Tymoshenko has been taken to hospital in the eastern city of Kharkiv. It's been nearly three weeks since she went on hunger strike in prison in protest at her treatment. She was sentenced to seven years in jail last October, having been found guilty of abusing her power while in office. But her supporters say she has been the victim of a smear campaign carried out by President Victor Yanukovich, who beat her in elections two years ago.
Imprisoned Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko ended a 20-day hunger strike on Wednesday as authorities transferred her from a jail in the eastern city of Kharkiv to a hospital where she is to be treated for severe back pain.
Imprisoned Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is set to end a 19-day hunger strike on Wednesday, as President Viktor Yanukovich cancelled a regional summit after several countries said they would boycott the event over his treatment of her.
The tax evasion trial of Ukraine's former PM Yulia Tymoshenko, imprisoned on separate charges critics say were politically motivated, was postponed on Saturday until May 21. Tymoshenko had asked for a trial delay due to health reasons.
At least 14 people were wounded in four separate blasts in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk on Friday, emergency officials said. Police said the blasts were caused by explosive devices placed in rubbish bins.
On the 26th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl in the former USSR, Ukraine's president on Thursday launched the construction of a structure to contain the site of the failed reactor for the next hundred years.
Ukraine's jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has gone on a hunger strike after claiming she was beaten by prison guards, her lawyer said Tuesday. Her conviction last year on charges of abuse of power drew condemnation from the West.
Union of European Football Associations chief Michel Platini said Thursday he was concerned about rising accommodation costs in Ukraine for the Euro 2012 championships, claiming "bandits and crooks" were inflating their prices to rip off soccer fans.
