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An Irish film has scooped an award at an international film festival, it emerged tonight.

Hollywood actor and director Antonio Banderas said the financial crisis had dealt a heavy blow to independent film-makers. "The crisis has taken us by surprise and it is stabbing us in the back," said the Spaniard, who starred in hit films including Desperado and Evita.

Several hundred people gathered Saturday in the eastern German city of Dresden to honour a pregnant Egyptian pharmacist fatally stabbed by a Russian-born immigrant in a courtroom.

By ALMIR ARNAUT Updated: July 11, 2009, 8:54 AM / 0 comments Tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims prayed for the dead in Srebrenica on Saturday, the 14th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, and buried hundreds of victims recently recovered from mass graves.

Revelers are chased by Jandilla's ranch fighting bulls on the fourth day of the running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Friday, July 10, 2009.

Our Armed Forces in Afghanistan have taken some very sad casualties over the last several days.

International observers said on Friday that political interference had delayed the vote count of last month's general election in Albania.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy tours the damage and reconstruction projects taking place on the sidelines of the G8 summit.

Thousands of mourners bowed their heads in tribute Friday to the passing coffins of soldiers killed in a new offensive in Afghanistan, where the climbing toll has created doubts in Britain about the human cost of the war.

A Briton was among the injured after a rogue bull gored several runners at Spain's Pamplona festival, leaving one man dead.

US President Barack Obama, right,and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi pictured during the G8/G5 summit in L'Aquila, Italy Thursday July 9, 2009.

Richard Wagner is the classical composer most associated with the Nazis, but Johann Sebastian Bach was the one the party dubbed "the most German of Germans" and whose music was played at rallies to stir up nationalist zeal.

VIENNA - Austrians could be forgiven for bristling at "Bruno." After all, the film character boasts that his fame is second only to Hitler's and says he just wants "to achieve zee Austrian dream - find a job, get a dungeon und raise a family in it." Yet rather than recoil at British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new spoof about a flamboyantly gay ...

Leaders of rich and developing nations want to finish a long-delayed world trade deal in 2010 and head off trade wars that could hit world economies as they struggle to emerge from the recession, according to a draft of a joint declaration obtained by The Associated Press.

Jul 09 - World leaders, including Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, arrive at the G8 summit in L'Aquila in eco-friendly buggies.

Michael Jackson tribute show Thriller Live will go on a 12-month world tour in response to huge demand from the late star's fans, its producers have said.

A DRUNKEN British visitor was mobbed when he began handing out thousand of pounds in euros at a Spanish airport yesterday.

An independent external validation of QRISK -- a new score for predicting a person's risk of heart disease - has shown that it performs better than the existing test and should be recommended for use in the United Kingdom by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence .

BERLIN - Germany's highest court has rejected an attempt by John Demjanjuk to challenge his recent deportation from the United States to Munich for trial on charges of being accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp.

Irish voters who rejected the European Union's Lisbon Treaty last year will be asked to vote again Oct.