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Lawmakers allied with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will introduce a bill within days that could cut short his pending trials on tax fraud and corruption charges, one of the premier's most powerful backers in parliament said Tuesday.

Changing Scotland's "booze and blade culture" will not be easy, Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing has said.

Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a UN arms embargo, maritime experts said on Monday.

A crowd of thousands of cheering Germans recreated the historical moment the Berlin Wall came crashing down -- toppling 1,000 graffiti-adorned 8-foot-tall dominoes that fell along the route of the now vanished Cold War icon, celebrating 20 years of freedom from separation and fear.

Nov. 9 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, joined thousands of others to walk across a former checkpoint in celebration of 20 years since the wall's collapse SOUNDBITE: GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL MUS, ONLOOKER FROM THE NETHERLANDS Georgina Cooper, Reuters No videos currently selected.

Two, blue overalls, of the seven suspected Somali pirates are guarded by Kenyan security officers as they arrived at the port's police station in Mombasa, Kenya, Monday Nov.

Prosecutors on Monday demanded a life sentence for a man who admitted to fatally stabbing a pregnant Egyptian woman in a German court in a case that triggered outrage across the Muslim world.

A NEWSPAPER close to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi issued an ultimatum to his allies yesterday, saying they must back laws shielding him from court trials or risk a government collapse.

Some 84 percent of Italians oppose a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that crucifixes should be removed from Italian classrooms, according to a poll on Sunday.

It is the British empire of the dead.Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London's Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million fighting men and women who died for Britain and its dominions in the world wars of the last ...

Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.

In this photo made available by the British Ministry of Defence, showing British soldiers, forming Battle Group North West hold a Remembrance Sunday service and parade at the Musa Qal'eh District Centre Forward Operating Base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Sunday Nov.

BRITISH public support for the war in Afghanistan is falling, while more than 40 per cent do not understand why British troops are fighting there, a poll released on Remembrance Sunday showed.

Ukraine could delay a January presidential election until May next year if the government fails to control an outbreak of H1N1 flu, a senior official wrote on the respected news Web site Ukrainska Pravda on Friday.

In this photo taken Oct. 26, 2009, Yvonne Shaw holds a photo and items that she has from her Finnish pen pal of 14 years, Leena Hietula, in Urbana, Ill.

Senior U.S. and Czech defense officials held talks Friday to discuss ways for the Czech Republic to participate in a reworked U.S. missile defense plan.

Massive colorful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades.

Two British ticketholders shared a massive 90 million jackpot in Friday night's Euromillions draw, Camelot said.

ROME Italy's Silvio Berlusconi praised the virility of Kazakhstan's men during a visit to Rome by its president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, saying this was the reason for the former Soviet country's population growth.

Monaco's Prince Albert II is filing a lawsuit in the U.S. against an American who claims he once worked as the prince's personal spymaster and is owed back pay, the prince's French lawyer said Friday.