ABBA were back on top of the British album charts today after the Swedish quartet`s Gold - Greatest Hits compilation became the oldest album ever to reach the UK number one spot
TRIBUTES have poured in from around the world today for Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died aged 89 after a life devoted to exposing the brutal Soviet Gulag prison system
THE 24-year-old assistant of French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel has been charged with complicity in the multi-billion-euro scandal at Societe Generale, judicial officials said today
IRAN "will have to face new sanctions" if it does not respond positively by tomorrow to an offer of incentives from six world powers over Tehran`s nuclear program, the French foreign ministry said
JETS of searingly hot water spewing up from the ocean floor have been discovered in a far-northern zone of the Arctic Sea, Swiss-based scientists announced today
A TEENAGER died when a tunnel collapsed on him while he was digging on a beach during a family holiday in south Wales, a coastguard spokesman said today
A SMALL amount of plutonium leaked in an ageing International Atomic Energy Agency laboratory outside Vienna but radioactive contamination was contained to a storage area and no one was injured, the UN watchdog said
ONE of the Dalai Lama`s top envoys says Tibetan negotiators will present Chinese negotiators with a detailed autonomy plan at their next meeting in October
