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US President Barack Obama will announce his new Afghan strategy in an address to the nation Tuesday from the prestigious West Point military academy, the White House said.

The queen of England will still rule - formally at least - over the eastern Caribbean nation of St.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's estranged wife is seeking 43 million euros, or about $65 million US, a year in alimony in a divorce case she launched after her husband was embroiled in a sex scandal, an Italian newspaper reported Thursday.

Roman Polanski will be quietly transferred from a Zurich jail to house arrest in his Alpine chalet, Swiss authorities said Thursday, adding that the process will last at least another day.

Germany's armed forces chief Wolfgang Schneiderhan has resigned, Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said, after accusations the military withheld information about an air strike in Afghanistan.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has unveiled a Network of Men Leaders to act as male role models in a campaign opposing violence against women.

LESS than a year after he stepped down amid a banking scandal, Yves Leterme has become Belgium's prime minister for the second time.

Bing Crosby didn't have to dream of a white Christmas - he could bank on it. The crooner was from Spokane, a city that is among the most likely to have a white Christmas each year.

Five clubs in Albania, Latvia, Slovenia and Hungary are suspected in European football's biggest match-fixing investigation, UEFA said Wednesday.

In this Saturday Aug. 1, 2009 file photo, Italian escort Patrizia D'addario poses during an Italian style party named "I love Silvio", in Paris.

Voters in the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines decide Wednesday whether to break their ties with Britain's monarchy, even as Queen Elizabeth II is making a rare visit to the region.

A cruise ferry with almost 1,700 people onboard was to be towed to the Finnish port city of Turku on Monday due to problems with its rudder system, the ferry operator said.

Critics hope the hearings, which will call ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair and are billed as the most sweeping inquiry into the conflict, will expose alleged deception in the buildup to fighting.

A libel trial has started in Poland over charges former President Lech Walesa once worked as a communist spy.

General Motors Co. will present to unions on Wednesday its restructuring plan for the Opel unit, expected to include up to 9,500 job cuts, the carmaker's top official in Europe said Tuesday.

Albert Camus' children are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern France to Paris' Pantheon, the final resting place of other French greats like Voltaire and Victor Hugo.

Former British leader Margaret Thatcher returned to London's Downing Street Monday as she unveiled her own portrait, which has been installed in the official residence of Britain's prime minister.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been called many things during his often turbulent career.

One night at the height of the panic over what people here call the California flu, as 24-hour news stations tracked a rising death toll and politicians speculated about a mystery lung plague, Ukraine's prime minister rushed to the airport to greet a shipment of Tamiflu as if it were a foreign dignitary.

Former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin awarded here Saturday the Legion of Honour toa doctor in central China for his contribution to Sino-French cultural and medical exchanges.