OFFICIAL have put Rome on a state of alert for the Tiber breaking its banks after days of unrelenting rain and thunderstorms that the mayor likened to an "earthquake" striking the Italian capital
THE Vatican today said life was sacred at every stage of its existence and condemned artificial fertilisation, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning and drugs which block pregnancy from taking hold
AT least 12 people died in an overnight blast at a Soviet-era mine in Arctic Russia that extracts raw materials for fertiliser production, the Emergencies Ministry says
EUROPEAN Union leaders have reached unanimous agreement on a E200bn ($397.22bn ) economic rescue package at a summit in Brussels, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says
POLICE made a "terrible mistake" over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and took full responsibility for the mistake, the acting head of Scotland Yard said yesterday
GREEK students hurled firebombs and stones at police outside parliament yesterday, in a seventh day of violence over the police killing of a teenager that has threatened Greece`s government
THE family of a Brazilian mistakenly killed by anti-terror police in London slammed an inquest into his death on Friday as a "whitewash" after jurors returned an inconclusive "open" verdict
