Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero led homage to the victims of the March 11 2004 Madrid train bombings in a quiet ceremony held on Saturday. As in 2005, the ceremony was held in a garden comprising 191 olive and cypress trees, planted to commemorate the victims of the attack exactly two years ago.
The stock of Slobodan Milosevic had already been rising among Serbs who watched his feisty performances at his war-crimes trial at The Hague. His death now makes him a martyr — and brings into serious question Belgrade’s future cooperation with the war-crimes tribunal.
The death of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in a United Nations cell on Saturday prompted widespread dismay that the ”Butcher of the Balkans” had escaped justice. But his allies accused the UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague of being fully responsible for his death.
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, the "Butcher of the Balkans" being tried for war crimes and genocide over the Balkans conflicts that killed more than 200Â 000 people, was found dead in his cell-room bed on Saturday. The news provoked widespread fury.
Modernist poet Barbara Guest, the best-known woman in the influential New York School of avant-garde poets and a winner of the prestigious Robert Frost Medal, has died. She was 85. Guest, who wrote more than 20 books of poetry, essays, plays, fiction and biography, died on February 15 in a Berkeley hospital.
A man who collected 540kg of rattlesnakes was first in line on Friday morning for the annual Rattlesnake Roundup in the small West Texas town of Sweetwater. The event, officially known as the World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup, started as a way to control the snakes in the area but has grown into a four-day attraction.
Opera singer Anna Moffo, a soprano hailed for her glamorous looks as much as her singing, has died, the Metropolitan Opera said on Friday. She was 73, according to the Grove Dictionary of Music. Moffo made her debut as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in a 1955 television production.
The Nasdaq electronic stock exchange confirmed on Friday it had made a bid for the London Stock Exchange (LSE), calling it an ”attractive offer” for shareholders. The news came hours after the LSE said it had rejected the unsolicited offer from the United States group as one that ”substantially undervalues” the company.
A record amount of spending in February pushed the United States government’s Budget deficit to the highest level to date for a single month, the Treasury Department reported on Friday. The government had a record monthly deficit of ,2-billion in February.
Behind a vale of trees lies the largest leper colony in the Middle East, a virtual oasis in Egypt for those who have been ostracised by society. The Abu Zaabal centre in the governorate of Qaliubiya, north of Cairo, hosts a hospital, pre-school, a prison and the adjoining village of Abdel Moneim Riad. It is home to 3 000 people.