A North Korean high court has sentenced two U.S. journalists to 12 years of hard labor for illegally crossing the country's border, North Korea's state KCNA news agency reported on Monday.
// Jun. 08, 2009 - 04:58 GMT
Brazilian and French vessels searching the area where an Air France plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean a week ago have pulled more bodies from the water, bringing the total to 17, officials said.
// Jun. 08, 2009 - 05:37 GMT
Several people have been injured and more than 200 evacuated as a heavy storm sweeps through Treviso province.
// Jun. 08, 2009 - 06:58 GMT
Victory in the French Open this weekend pushed Svetlana Kuznetsova back into the top five of the WTA rankings where she joins two other Russians and the U.S. Williams sisters.
// Jun. 08, 2009 - 07:05 GMT
Archeologists discovered 33 Incan mummies, mostly women and girls, who appear to have been sacrified about 600 years ago.
// Jun. 08, 2009 - 07:15 GMT
After reading the Novosti story “N.Korea prepares ballistic test,boosts military on west coast,” I became very alarmed. Let all nations work together to counter this dangerous North Korean threat. America has been most lax in this regard: they have wasted much time. The Americans could have supplied the South Koreans, Taiwan and Japan with their own ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads; also, America could have had Patriot ABM batteries installed to help neutralize any threat posed by these unstable and crazy North Korean leaders.
// Jun. 08, 2009 - 07:46 GMT
Ukraine has paid in full for natural gas supplied by Russia in May, Gazprom confirmed on Monday amid concerns that a threatened halt in supplies to the country could disrupt transit to Europe.
// Jun. 08, 2009 - 08:05 GMT