A long-simmering scandal of phantom voters and rigged elections is beginning to bubble over in Paris. more »
Officials in both Latvia and Estonia have announced the first annual increases in the number of births for more than a decade. more »
Czech, Hungarian Catholic Primates Celebrate Hungarian Millennium. more »
Hillary Rodham Clinton's support for women's organizations in former Soviet republics could help boost their status. more »
The last chief of the communist Czechoslovak secret police (StB), General Alojz Lorenc, is to stand trial before a Slovak military court. more »
Deadline Set for Russia Regions to Synchronise Laws. more »
The American Civil Liberties Union is backing former Intel employee Kourosh Hamidi who was ordered to stop criticising Intel in internal emails. more »
Poland rapturously celebrated on Thursday the 80th birthday of Pope John Paul II, the country's most famous son -- and nowhere more so than in his hometown of Wadowice. more »
Sri Lanka: Foreign minister calls for talks to end `futile' 17-year war. more »
Tens of thousands of women rallied in Washington on Sunday to urge legislators to enact stricter gun-control measures and protect their children. more »