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Organizers of the Taormina, Sicily, Film Festival are scrambling to put together a tribute to U.S. actor James Gandolfini, who had been expected to attend the festival's closing ceremony this weekend.

The Scottish Premier League confirmed the automatic penalty had been triggered by the club lodging their intention to go into administration at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Monday.

Gyula Horn, a former Hungarian prime minister who played a key role in opening the Iron Curtain, has died at the age of 80. He was best known internationally for his announcement as foreign minister in 1989 that Hungary would allow East German refugees to leave the country for West Germany, one of the key events that helped bring an end to ... (more)

Gov. Mark Dayton says the state will open a European trade office in Germany to promote exports and foreign investment back in Minnesota.

A symbolic cigarette butt is set up inside Gare de Lyon railway station, in Paris, Dec. 4, 2012, as part of a publicity campaign against rudeness, by Paris's public transport authority.

Johannes Skulason, an Icelandic government official, told The Associated Press that WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson had held informal talks with assistants at the Interior Ministry and the prime minister's office.

The statement of support from the presidents of Nabucco transit countries demonstrates that Nabucco is the most strategic project to open the Southern Gas Corridor, Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH CEO Reinhard Mitschek said in a statement, released by NIC on Wednesday.

A feeling in France that the European Union no longer works in its interest is fueling tensions between Paris and Brussels and adding pressure on President Francois Hollande to be more assertive in Europe.

The Shaolin Temple, known as the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is preparing to stage its first cultural festival in the United States as part of efforts to expand its global clout.

The ground and first floors of the house were severely damaged and half of the roof was destroyed in the blaze.

Intelligence services were even said to have set up internet cafA©s at the summit venues which they used to read emails Britain was plunged into a diplomatic row last night following claims that foreign politicians and diplomats were repeatedly spied upon when they attended two G20 summit meetings in London.

Laden with foreign challenges, President Barack Obama is welcoming Iran's election results, taking the temperature of China's new leader and acknowledging that nations routinely spy on each other, all the while navigating difficult terrain with allies and Russia over Syria.

Amongst the austere, man machine classics they performed was 1977's 'Trans-Europe Express', a paean to the romance of Continental rail travel.

His first visit to Northern Ireland was classic Obama, beginning not with world leaders but young people from both communities When 17-year-old Ellen Mooney arrived at Belfast's Waterfront Hall yesterday to see US President Barack Obama make a historic speech, it wasn't because she was interested in politics.

With a salary of up 65,000, the superintendent and visitor manager post is at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, a major tourist attraction in Edinburgh.

A sign protesting against the HS2 high-speed London-Birmingham rail project, which has been condemned as a '33 billion pound gamble' Demand for the HS2 high-speed rail project has "likely been overestimated" and the A 33 billion project does not offer good value for money, according to a report by a think-tank.

The little-seen, little-discussed Obama girls, now 14 and 11 respectively, are along for the ride with first lady Michelle Obama while the president is in Northern Ireland today and Tuesday meeting with other leaders of the G-8 industrial nations.

Here we go into the wild blue yonder again with Colum McCann. In his 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin , McCann swooped readers up into the air with the French aerialist Philippe Petit, who staged an illegal high-wire stunt walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron took some time out of their busy summit schedules to visit with local school children Monday afternoon.

The head of a family-run kosher butcher in north Manchester has vowed to rebuild the business after his shop was gutted by fire on Friday night.