No one teaches reporters how to cover a war, much less wars that include genocide. Most of us rely on the wisdom of experienced colleagues and a lot of on-the-job training.
The man's remains lie on a table. Next to him are the bones of his 22-year-old son and the remains of another son. But no one yet knows which of the man's two missing boys the third set of remains could be.
Richard Holbrooke first visited Bosnia in 1992 as a private citizen.
Seven members of a skinhead gang convicted over 20 racially motivated killings and 12 other violent attacks, will hear their sentences in a Moscow court Thursday, according to Russian media.
A Basque businessman was shot and killed Wednesday in northern Spain, CNN+ reported, the first attack since last month's arrest of the leader of the Basque separatist group ETA.
Salzburg officials have blocked plans to run a hotel out of a former home of the von Trapp family immortalized in "The Sound of Music" after protests by neighbors.
A Spanish businessman was shot and killed Wednesday in an attack by the Basque separatist group ETA, a police official said.
The United States and Russia were absent Wednesday as representatives from countries from around the world gathered to sign a treaty banning the use of cluster bombs.
Paris, 1948. In the shadow of the Holocaust, the fledgling United Nations meets to adopt one of its first human rights treaties.
No one teaches reporters how to cover a war, much less wars that include genocide. Most of us rely on the wisdom of experienced colleagues and a lot of on-the-job training.
The man's remains lie on a table. Next to him are the bones of his 22-year-old son and the remains of another son. But no one yet knows which of the man's two missing boys the third set of remains could be.
Richard Holbrooke first visited Bosnia in 1992 as a private citizen.
Seven members of a skinhead gang convicted over 20 racially motivated killings and 12 other violent attacks, will hear their sentences in a Moscow court Thursday, according to Russian media.
A Basque businessman was shot and killed Wednesday in northern Spain, CNN+ reported, the first attack since last month's arrest of the leader of the Basque separatist group ETA.
Salzburg officials have blocked plans to run a hotel out of a former home of the von Trapp family immortalized in "The Sound of Music" after protests by neighbors.
A Spanish businessman was shot and killed Wednesday in an attack by the Basque separatist group ETA, a police official said.
The United States and Russia were absent Wednesday as representatives from countries from around the world gathered to sign a treaty banning the use of cluster bombs.
Paris, 1948. In the shadow of the Holocaust, the fledgling United Nations meets to adopt one of its first human rights treaties.
Italian police Tuesday arrested two Moroccans suspected of preparing a series of terrorist attacks near Milan in northern Italy, the police announced.
The European Union has launched a fact-finding mission to determine the causes of the August war between Georgia and Russia, an EU spokeswoman said Tuesday.
They share a deep sorrow: an idealistic American who tried to protect the Kurds of Iraq, a Canadian general who refused to follow orders in Rwanda, a French priest who fought for the soul of Cambodia.
Venice could use a bailout. The city built on water has too much of it.
The Foreign Ministry says a Bulgarian engineer has been freed by Nigerian kidnappers after being held for 10 days.
The two parties projected to have won the most votes in weekend elections are holding rival talks about forming a Romanian coalition government while awaiting the final results.
Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Slobodan Milosevic. They are household names, infamous for masterminding genocide. But who were the foot soldiers who did the dirty work?
In this age of electronic media communications, Americans are increasingly confronted in their living rooms -- and even on their cell phones -- with information about and images of genocide and mass atrocities virtually anywhere they occur.
Venice has suffered its worst flooding in 22 years, leaving some parts of the historic Italian city neck-deep in water, reports said Monday.
Romania's parliamentary election results Monday showed the centrist and leftist parties less than a percentage point apart with more than 90 percent of the vote counted, raising the prospect of tough negotiations to form a coalition.
Search and rescue teams worked through the night to find the remains of an Airbus jet that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea with seven people aboard, the jet's owner, Air New Zealand, said Friday.
A plane with seven people aboard crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday, a French regional government official told CNN.
They pushed and plotted, elbowed and jabbed -- and then voted and voted. After months of maneuvering and debates, and weeks of party polling, the opposition Socialist Party in France finally came up with a party leader.
The mayor of the capital of Russia's North Ossetia region was killed Wednesday when his car came under gunfire, officials said.
Martine Aubry, a former labor minister who brought France the 35-hour work week, was confirmed Tuesday as the leader of the Socialist Party after a razor-thin contest with her rival.
Greenland voted by a wide margin Tuesday for self-governance, setting the stage for independence from Denmark, a government spokeswoman said.
A British man was jailed Tuesday for raping two of his daughters and fathering nine children over 27 years, a case with echoes of Austria's Josef Fritzl.
Change -- probably the single word used more than any other by President-elect Barack Obama to enunciate his vision of a post-Bush America.
A defense lawyer for one of three men charged in the killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya said Tuesday that their indictment indicates a politician inside Russia ordered her slaying.
As you drive along the main road from Reykjavik to Iceland's most famous tourist attractions, the geysers, you pass a rather non-descript farm in Laugarvatn.
What's in a name? For parents in Italy who name their children after Second World War Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini or his wife Rachele, it could be €1,500 ($1,900).
Three people were killed when a car blew up near a subway station in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, on Tuesday, authorities said.
A former member of the now-disbanded German Red Army Faction will be released from prison in January, a court announced Monday.
The British government is buying 10,000 Taser stun guns for police officers across England and Wales, Britain's Home Office said Monday.
Russia and South Ossetia have strongly denied news reports that a motorcade carrying the presidents of Georgia and Poland came under fire, calling the claims "a provocation" meant to destabilize the region.
Russian authorities have charged a sailor with "criminally negligent homicide" in the deaths of 20 people aboard a nuclear submarine earlier this month, Russian news agencies said Monday.
Pop star Michael Jackson has settled a Bahraini prince's lawsuit accusing him of failing to honor a business deal worth $7 million.
A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change.
A German court has ruled that a former top member of the leftist Red Army Faction terrorist group can be released from prison in January after having served the minimum 26 years of a life sentence for multiple murders.
Shots were fired Sunday near a motorcade carrying the presidents of Georgia and Poland, but the motorcade was not hit and there were no injuries, according to the Interior Ministry of Georgia.
Italian firefighters say a section of a false brick ceiling collapsed at a high school near Turin and that one student was killed and 20 were injured.
The French Socialist Party said Saturday that the architect of France's 35-hour work week has won the party's leadership in an extremely tight race -- an outcome quickly challenged by partisans of her rival.
The successful transplant of a lab-grown windpipe almost did not happen when budget airline staff refused to allow the transportation of stem cells needed for the operation, UK newspapers reported Friday.
The Dutch government on Friday approved an economic stimulus package worth up to 8 billion euros ($10 billion) to help the country cope with the global financial crisis.
A French judge has filed preliminary anti-terrorist charges against the suspected leader of the Basque separatist group ETA, a judicial official said.
Construction work has stopped on Europe's tallest building after developers said their lofty ambitions had been hit by the global financial crisis, a Russian news agency reported Friday.
The Russian parliament approved a constitutional amendment Friday to extend the presidential term from four to six years.
Billionaire Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is to separate from his wife, paving the way for what could be one of Britain's most expensive divorce settlements.
In this end-of-year programme, "The Spirit of..." examines the financial crisis that has impacted the world and asks what financial and political world leaders can do to help.
Researchers said Thursday they had identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books.
Researchers said Thursday they had identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books.
Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that engulfed a wooden barracks at Berlin's main Tegel airport. Air traffic was interrupted for half an hour.
Michael Jackson's lawyer says the pop star has agreed to come to London to respond to an Arab sheikh's $7 million lawsuit.
An Air Canada co-pilot having a mental breakdown had to be forcibly removed from the cockpit, restrained and sedated, and a flight attendant with flying experience helped the pilot safely make an emergency landing, an Irish investigation concluded Wednesday.
Paying for sex with trafficked or exploited women would become a crime under new laws proposed by the UK government Wednesday.
A bill extending the Russian presidential term from four to six years moved quickly Wednesday toward parliamentary approval, an effort some observers say could pave the way for Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency.
The trial of three men accused of being involved in a plot to murder Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya will take place behind closed doors, a Moscow court ruled Wednesday.
The key suspect captured Monday in an anti-terrorism raid in France is considered to be the overall chief of the Basque separatist group ETA, Spain's Interior Minister said Wednesday.
Michael Jackson's attorney said Tuesday that the pop star might be too sick to travel to London to testify in a lawsuit claiming he owes an Arab sheikh $7 million.
A Danish court has acquitted a 23-year-old man accused of being involved in a terror plot to kidnap Danish soldiers and use them as hostages.
The United Nations' highest court said Tuesday that it will rule on a Croatian case alleging that Serbia was responsible for committing genocide during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.
Poland's president has put words in Barack Obama's mouth, kept Condoleezza Rice waiting, and snubbed national icon Lech Walesa.
An ongoing name dispute between Greece and Macedonia is to be referred to the International Court of Justice.
The greenhouse gas emissions of 40 industrialized nations that signed the Kyoto Protocol treaty in 1997 have collectively dropped by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels, the UN reported on Monday.
The son of an Arab monarch is taking the King of Pop to court over an album and an autobiography Michael Jackson was allegedly paid for but never produced.
Russian lawmakers in Moscow voted Friday in support of proposed constitutional changes extending the presidential term from four to six years.
A Moscow court has opened a preliminary hearing Monday in the trial of three men accused of being involved in a plot to murder Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Police arrested the suspected military chief of the Basque separatist group ETA in a pre-dawn raid Monday in southern France, the French interior minister announced.
A Scottish court refused to release convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi Friday, rejecting his argument that he should be freed because he suffers from advanced prostate cancer, according to a court statement.
The world has watched him grow from a schoolboy with a kingdom to inherit, to a divorced father of two handsome sons.
Prince Charles, the UK's longest serving monarch-in-waiting, reached 60 Friday -- the age at which many people are thinking of retirement.
A British couple who married in a lavish Second Life wedding ceremony are to divorce after one of them had an alleged "affair" in the online world.
An Austrian man who allegedly held his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years has been charged with murdering one of their children, prosecutors say.
Authorities in western Austria say they recovered four human fetuses from the home of an elderly woman who recently died.
By the time he turns 60 Friday, Britain's Prince Charles will have spent 56 years waiting to become king.
Wanted: One missing Russian church. Last seen in July. Reward for its return.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rejected a Russian suggestion that both countries scrap plans to place defensive missiles in Eastern Europe.
An inquiry panel has ruled that a crew member set off the fire extinguishing system in a Russian nuclear submarine that resulted in the death of 20 people Saturday.
A nine-year-old schoolgirl was drugged and tethered to a roof beam as part of a kidnapping plot staged by her mother to claim up to £50,000 ($75,000) in reward money, an English court heard Wednesday.
An EU ban restricting the sale of imperfect-looking fruit and vegetables has been overturned, allowing the return of curvy cucumbers and knobbly carrots to shops.
Police have arrested two suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA in southern France as they were riding bicycles, CNN partner station CNN+ reported.
A $6.2 million inquiry into child abuse on the British Channel Island of Jersey lay in tatters on Wednesday after senior officers revealed police were relying on discredited evidence.
The British Fertility Society is warning that the UK is facing a shortage of men willing to donate their sperm.
The handful of surviving World War I veterans were celebrated Tuesday as part of 90th anniversary commemorations of the conflict that was meant to "end all wars."
Thousands of Greek prison inmates were staging a hunger strike to protest overcrowding and poor living conditions, a prison rights group said Tuesday.
A 13-year-old British girl who has undergone nearly a dozen surgeries in her young life has refused a heart transplant operation -- a decision that may ultimately lead to her death.
The Kremlin says President Dmitry Medvedev has submitted a draft bill that would extend the term of Russia's president from four to six years.
A Spanish court issued an international arrest warrant Tuesday for a notorious former prisoner from the Basque separatist group ETA after he failed to appear before a judge on suspicion of publicly praising terrorism.
African migrants armed with sticks and rocks stormed the border of a Spanish enclave in North Africa Monday but police using tear gas repelled them, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.
A Ryanair flight from Frankfurt made an emergency landing at a Rome airport Monday after birds hit the aircraft, aviation and airline officials company said.
An explosion killed two Georgian police officers early Monday near the disputed region of South Ossetia, an official said. EU monitors called the attack an unacceptable breach of the cease-fire that ended the Georgia-Russia war.
A top aide to the Rwandan president is in German custody for her alleged role in a 1994 assassination that sparked the Rwandan genocide, the German Foreign Ministry said Monday.
A hit single by convicted pedophile Gary Glitter is to be removed from coursework for a British examination after complaints by child abuse campaigners.
The French railway authority says a high-speed train hit two concrete slabs laid on the tracks in southern France in a suspected act of sabotage.
Naval experts have said overcrowding may have been behind an accident on a new Russian nuclear submarine that killed 20 people, agencies have reported.
An accident that killed 20 people on a new Russian nuclear submarine was caused by a malfunctioning fire safety system that spewed out chemicals, according to an initial investigation, officials said Sunday.
The fire safety system on a new Russian nuclear-powered submarine malfunctioned on a test run in the Sea of Japan, spewing chemicals that killed at least 20 people and injured 21 others, officials said Sunday.
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