Europe
Putin declares all Russian military deaths state secrets
President Vladimir Putin ordered on Thursday that deaths of Russian soldiers during special operations in peacetime should be classified as a state ...Blatter chairs emergency FIFA meeting as scandal grows
FIFA President Sepp Blatter chaired an emergency meeting with continental soccer bodies Thursday while staying out of public view himself.Pressure mounts on FIFA’s Blatter to resign after arrests
FIFA\'s veteran president Sepp Blatter faced angry demands to resign after US indictments and arrests of top lieutenants engulfed the football supremo ...German city evacuates 20,000 people to defuse WWII bomb
German authorities evacuated around 20,000 people from their homes in the western city of Cologne Wednesday before defusing a World War II ...FIFA officials arrested over corruption charges, face US extradition
Six soccer officials, including some high-ranking members of world governing-body FIFA, were arrested by Swiss police on Wednesday and detained pending extradition ...World soccer rocked by U.S., Swiss arrests of officials for graft
A major corruption storm that engulfed FIFA sent shock waves around world football Wednesday and led to calls to suspend a vote ...Former British PM Blair quits as Middle East envoy
Tony Blair resigned Wednesday as the Quartet diplomatic group\'s envoy, his office said, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict he worked to end as ...Andrzej Duda wins presidential election in Poland
Polish voters have opted for change and chosen the conservative and relatively unknown lawyer Andrzej Duda as their next president, spelling a ...China floods kill dozens
The death toll in China\'s latest round of flooding has risen to at least 57, including two schoolchildren aboard a bus carrying ...65-Year-Old German woman gives birth to quadruplets
A 65-year-old German woman, who already has 13 children, has given birth to quadruplets after undergoing an artificial insemination procedure in Ukraine, ...