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Possessions belonging to 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' writer Mark Twain are set to go under the hammer at Sotheby's.
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Beijing city officials have come up with a novel way to combat the stench of the city's growing rubbish tips.
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Because of the Icelandic volcano, flower growers in Colombia couldn't get their stems to markets in Europe.
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has produced never-seen-before high-resolution pictures of the sun.
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The Second Vice President of the Spanish government and Minister of Economy and Finance, Elena Salgado, on Sunday played down the importance of apparent fissures within the EU concerning the Greek financial crisis, expressing her confidence that all countries would support the aid package for this country, which will be accompanied by a tough budget-tightening plan.
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This Saturday, 24 April, the Carlos de Amberes Foundation is hosting two conferences of European experts on the environment and sustainability and immigration policies in the EU, organised by the Allianz Cultural Foundation in the context of the Allianz Alumni Academy.
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The Spanish Minister of Public Works, José Blanco, has announced in Madrid that the Spanish Presidency of the EU has called an extraordinary meeting of the Transport Council for 4 May, with the backing of the Commission, to give impetus to introducing a 'single European sky', in the wake of the recent air-traffic crisis caused by the volcanic cloud.
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Nigeria holds the 13th edition of the national ram fighting championships.
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The King Tut exhibition opens in New York's Times Square.
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Livestock at a farm outside of Seoul show symptoms of the highly contagious disease.
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Somali pirates chose the wrong target for their latest attack earlier this week – picking a French warship.
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The Trident-Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai to reopen, following renovations after militant attacks in 2008
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Recommendations on how EU countries can meet their pledges for fighting hunger, poverty and disease.
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France is moving towards a ban on wearing face-covering Islamic veils in public. Next month the government set to examine a bill banning the burka, amid heated debate over womens rights and religious freedom.
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Flags flew at half mast around China, as the country stopped for three minutes to honour the victims of a 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Yushu, which left at least 2, 064 people dead and 175 missing.
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Andris Piebalgs, EU Commissioner for Development, will travel to Haiti on 23-24 April 2010, to launch the first projects for reconstruction that will be funded by the EU.
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Fresh from their wedding in Jamaica, British tourists Siobhan and David Monteith never thought for a minute that a volcano would interrupt their honeymoon.
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Vice President Joe Biden said the killings of two top al Qaeda leaders in Iraq could be a key development in Iraq as US forces continue to wind down their position.
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The Spanish Secretary of State for the EU, Diego López Garrido, and the European Commissioner for Transport, Siim Kallas, in the European Parliament on Tuesday defended the management of the air crisis caused by the eruption of an Icelandic volcano and said that they were confident that the measures adopted by the EU-27 will allow air space to progressively reopen.
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The streets of Manila filled with a colourful display on wheels, just days before the world celebrates Earth Day’s 40th anniversary.
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