Europe
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 ...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 ...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 ...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, ...Gap between rich and poor widens
The gap between the rich and poor in most of the world\'s advanced economies is at record levels, according to an OECD ...US, Britain fine six top banks nearly $6 bn for forex, Libor abuses
US and British regulators fined six major global banks a total of nearly $6 billion between them Wednesday for rigging the foreign ...All bodies from Germanwings plane crash identified
Investigators have identified the remains of all 150 people aboard a Germanwings flight that was deliberately crashed into the French Alps, a ...




