Adds other attacks in paras 5-8) NAZRAN, July 9 (RIA Novosti) - Three people were killed and one injured when gunmen attacked a village in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia, a local Interior Ministry official said on Wednesday. He
After several cast changes, Bosnian actor-filmmaker Emir Kusturica is set to star alongside Guillaume Canet in Farewell, Christian Carion’s third feature, following The Girl from Paris (2001) and Merry Christmas (2005 Focus). Some scenes of the feature were shot in
Lehmann Timber dry cargo ship that was seized by pirates from Somali on May, 28 is released. Pirates left the board of the ship about 07:00 pm (Kyiv time).
But can France's first lady, top model-turned songstress Carla Bruni who married President Nicolas Sarkozy in February, keep spinning the magic once her new album comes out on July 11? Its success or failure could be an affair of state.
The General Synod, the Church's governing body, decided late on Monday to press ahead with the legislation to introduce women bishops despite threats by more than 1,300 clergy to quit over the issue. The Synod approved the drawing-up of a
In the same sale, three drawings by the Spanish master Francisco de Goya, which experts had feared lost for 131 years, sold for more than four million pounds. Flemish-born Watteau's "La Surprise," which was painted in around 1718 and last
Somali pirates have released a German cargo vessel with 15 men on board after the owner paid a $US 750,000 ransom. One Russian and four Ukrainians were among the crew members let go when the Lehmann Timber was freed. The
President Viktor Yushchenko has undertaken the extremely complicated task of trying to obtain international recognition for the Holodomor of 1932-33 as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people and immortalizing the memory of its victims. During the presidency of
The truism that genuine patriotism is not bound by geography alone has been confirmed by the steps taken by Ukrainians in the Diaspora who, as fate decreed, left their fatherland during the terrible years of war and repression. In their
Dame Diana Rigg may be 70 this month but she still drives a Mercedes sports car, smokes 20 a day and swears by a bottle of Merlot before bedtime. The spirit of Emma Peel lives on, finds Nigel Farndale.
