Somali pirates holding a Spanish trawler crew captive have kicked and spat on their hostages, the trawler captain said on Monday. Ricardo Blach, ...
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hit back at his critics on Thursday, saying he is far and away the best ...
Italy's scandal-plagued Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi angrily insisted Friday he had nothing to fear after the publication of photos showing topless women and a naked man sunbathing at his island villa. Berlusconi's lawyer vowed to sue Spain's El Pais after the daily ...
Berlusconi: I'll resign if lied about teen; moves to sue Spanish paper over topless photos Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday he would resign immediately if he were shown to have lied about his relationship with an 18-year-old model at the heart of ...
The global economic crisis could lead to dangerous social upheaval if certain steps are not taken, World Bank chief Robert Zoellick warned in an interview Sunday. "If we do no take measures, there is a risk of a serious human and social ...
What are the odds? A single lightning bolt kills 52 cows pressed against fence in Uruguay Lightning struck only once — but 52 cows are dead at an Uruguayan ranch. The newspaper El Pais reports that the cows had pressed against a ...
An investigation carried our by Mexico's attorney general has indicated that members of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca were responsible for the murder of US journalist Bradley Will in October 2006. He was filming a violent demonstration when he ...
Spain's new 30-billion-euro bank rescue fund is aimed at acquiring top-rated mortgages in exchange for injecting essential liquidity into the credit market, a government spokesman said Wednesday. The fund will "essentially" be used to take over mortgages, but only those with the ...
Members of a Russian criminal gang arrested in Spain have said they used tens of millions of euros in bribes to "buy" the UEFA Cup won by Zenit St Petersburg this year, a Spanish newspaper said on Wednesday. Zenit beat Glasgow Rangers ...
The wing flaps on a Spanair jet that crashed in Madrid killing 154 people, were not operating properly and an alarm failed to go off, Spanish media quoted a preliminary accident report as saying Tuesday. "A verification recommended by the manufacturer 20 ...
The United Nations will soon appoint American diplomat Christopher Ross as a special envoy to the Western Sahara, the Spanish daily El Pais reported Wednesday. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will name the former US ambassador to Syria and Algeria, within "the ...
Three disabled athletes from Spain have reached the South Pole unassisted by animals or machines, in what a Spanish newspaper said Sunday was a world first. The three, Jesus Noriega, Eric Villalon and Xavier Valbuena, accompanied by two guides, arrived at the ...
