Latvia's Supreme Court released convicted Soviet war criminal Vasily Kononov from custody on April 25, saying there should be a new investigation of the evidence. more »
Fidel Castro took an active role in May Day festivities for the first time in years Monday, marching in the parade and ending a speech with a cell-phone call to Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who is fighting to bring his son, Elian, home to Cuba. more »
Anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police Monday in central London. more »
Russia Exhibits Hitler's Skull before Victory Day. more »
The fatal shooting this week of an elite member of the Hells Angels appears to have triggered a new wave of violence in Quebec's biker-gang wars. more »
Vytautas Sustauskas, 55, seen as a considerably eccentric Lithuanian politician and anti-Semite by many, was elected Kaunas mayor on April 13. more »
Internet delivery service Kozmo.com was sued Thursday by the Equal Rights Center, a Washington D.C.-based civil rights group, and two African-American co-plaintiffs who claim the company refused to deliver merchandise to their homes because they more »
Sharis Mohammed walked nine miles with her seven children in search of help after her family's livestock died. But when she reached this tiny town in southeastern Ethiopia, she found no international food aid. more »
A Paris-based anti-racism group said Tuesday it was taking Internet portal Yahoo! Inc to court over the sale of Nazi memorabilia on one of the Web sites it hosts. more »
UKRAINE SLAMS PACE OVER APPEAL TO DELAY REFERENDUM. more »