Brazilian police have arrested the wife of a former world boxing champion, Arturo Gatti, who was found dead in a hotel in north-eastern Brazil.

Russian security forces have shot dead five militants in Chechnya, officials say, bringing to 17 the total killed in the North Caucasus since Saturday.

Almost 250 children under the age of five have died in a wave of intensely cold weather in Peru.

Four European Union countries and Turkey have signed an agreement to construct the long-planned 3,300km Nabucco natural gas pipeline.

On May 25, 1926, Symon Petliura was shot to death while walking down a street in Paris.

Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko believes that extended terms of imprisonment for bribery will not solve the problem.He said this addressing a press conference."I am sure extension of the term of imprisonment for bribery will not change the situation for the

The Cabinet of Ministers is concerned over the level of shadowization of the Ukrainian economy.Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn told the press Wednesday that the indicator of 32% (32% of the economy in the shadow) was calculated based on four methods

A fragment of the Berlin Wall is to be put up near Germany's embassy in Kyiv."The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is marked this year. This event prompted big changes in Europe, including those of great

The Prosecutor's General Office has opened a criminal case against Verkhovna Rada deputy of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc Viktor Lozinskyi suspected of the purposeful infliction of grave bodily harm, which entailed death of Kirovohrad region resident Valeriy Oliynyk, a representative

The recent risk-appetite reversal on global financial markets and the resumption of the IMF stand-by program to Ukraine were reflected in the sharp decline of CDS spreads for Ukraine (from more than...

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Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmyn may be involved into the death of Nathalie Reshetniak - prosecutor at the prosecutor's office in Kyiv.

President of Ukraine put a veto upon the law "On the All-Ukrainian referendum" on changes in Constitution of Ukraine.

The Minister of Economics and President of Ukraine are calling on businessmen in Austria to make investments into the projects to be prepared for the European football championship in Ukraine in 2012.

The International Olympic Committee decided to award scholarship Vancouver-2010 on the Olympic solidarity program to 20 sportsmen, Olympic competitors in the winter kinds of sports.