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Hollande vows to bring change   Paris : French president-elect Francois Hollande said Sunday night he felt proud for bringing hope to France and that change will start from now. In an address to his sup ... More

Francois Hollande: The next president of France   Paris : Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande who defeated incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday's decisive presidential runoff in France, has never held a govern ... More

Hollande beats Sarkozy in French presidential polls   Paris : Socialist Party challenger François Hollande Sunday wrested power from incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy to become the first Socialist preside ... More

Naked body scanners in British airports?   Controversial "naked" body scanners could be introduced at all British airports after top scientists declared them safe, Daily Mail reported Friday. Manchest ... More

Priest sex scandal shocks Poland   Warsaw : A priest in Poland, found guilty of having sex with a disabled 19-year-old girl who was entrusted in his care, has been sentenced to four years in prison. This i ... More

130 injured in Netherlands train collision   Around 130 people were injured when two passenger trains collided Saturday near the Netherlands' capital city Amsterdam, Xinhua reported. The accident took place around 6.30 p.m. when a t ... More

Titanic still connects its descendants: British writer   Disaster brings people together with the spectre of shared horror and memories. The sinking of the Titanic April 15, 1912 still connects the descendants of victims and survivors 100 years on ... More

Explosion rocks German chemical park, three missing   Berlin : A huge explosion rocked a chemical industrial park in Marl in western Germany, leaving one or two workers injured and three missing, police said Saturd ... More

Sri Lanka to shut some embassies in Europe   The Sri Lankan government has decided to shut down some of its embassies in Europe, the external affairs ministry said Tuesday. A spokesperson at the ministr ... More

French gunman killed after 30-hour siege   Paris : A gunman suspected of shooting dead seven people in France was killed Thursday after police stormed into his apartment to end a 30-hour siege. Interior Minister Claude Gueant conf ... More

Student leaves website message before suicide   A student took a lethal dose of a chemical Friday after writing on his profile page on a Russian social networking site that he was "voluntarily" taking his own life due to "philosophical co ... More

Gay laws: Britain may remove husband, wife terms   If Britain's plan to legalise gay marriages takes shape, offices across the country will have to remove terms like "husband" and "wife" from forms and use more ... More