The situation with German container ship Hansa Stavanger that had been seized by Somali pirates more than 3 months ago has become strained.

The high-ranking head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) major general Yaroslav Savchyn settled accounts with his life.

The meeting of Ukrainian-Libyan cooperation committee is being held in Kyiv now.

The hryvna devaluating tendency, that was noticed last week, may continue. It may be caused by actions and statements of the National Bank of Ukraine.

The major-general of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Yaroslav Savchyn died after an attempt to throw out of the window in the psychiatric hospital of Kyiv.

Yulia Tymoshenko is holding secret negotiations on OJSC Naftogaz crediting. She is trying to involve Ukraine into numerous debts without the knowledge of the Head of the state and the public. She is holding negotiations with offshore companies", Bogdan Sokolovsky

MP from Zaporizhia regional council from the Party of Regions Volodymyr Hubar who beat two women in the cafй has been excluded from the party and faction.

Ukrainian sportswomen have become the champions of Europe in the team contests of saber fencers who gained a victory over the national team of Russia at the final with a score 45:31.

Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd Company (Virgin Islands) has begun work at the program and budget to realize the first stage of the development of the Prykerchensky sector of shelf in the Black Sea in 2010.

The construction of Livoberezhnaya line of Kyiv subway will cost nearly 6 mn of hryvnas.

The winner of chess competition in Spain Serhiy Kariakyn refuted mass-media reports on giving up Ukrainian citizenship and acquiring the Russian citizenship.

The U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko held a joint press conference in Kyiv.

Delo newspaper has received information that Europe made Ukraine conditions relating to the credit for gas. According to the document, Naftogaz may get funds if the company carries out an independent audit of gas that is being kept in the

The military experts state that our pilots are working in the flashpoints as mercenaries.

Americans as naked gladiators? Indians as blissful beauties? Those were the images - exaggerated a bit for dramatic effect - that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton evoked Monday in a question-and-answer session with university students who probed her

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned senior officials on Monday not to help Tehran's enemies after two former presidents expressed defiant opposition to the result of June's disputed presidential poll.

A civilian helicopter crash that killed 16 people at a NATO base in southern Afghanistan pushed up the death toll on Sunday in the U.S. and allied effort to break the Taliban, adding to pressure on Washington and London.

The Green Party has hit back at criticisms from its former MEP Patricia McKenna on its decision to campaign for a Yes vote in the re-run of the Lisbon treaty.

A U.S. Census Bureau study found that the 2008 presidential election drew more than 60 percent of potential Alabama voters or 2.1 million people to the polls Nov.

ABOUT a month ago, in this space, I told you The New York Times had rigged a poll about Americans wanting to pay higher taxes to fund government-run health care.