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He's not known for his diplomatic graces, but blunt-talking French President Nicolas Sarkozy looks like Europe's best bet for making peace between Russia and Georgia.

Paris, unlike Washington, can claim to be an impartial mediator, and Sarkozy is bolstered by his current role as the chief of the entire European Union, Russia's biggest trading partner.

But a cease-fire deal that Sarkozy crafted is foundering. His diplomatic blitz to Moscow and Tbilisi on Monday may be his last chance to save it _ and his credibility as a peacemaker.

German news media say Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be the Social Democratic party's candidate for chancellor in 2009.

Vice President Dick Cheney renewed his call for cooperation between Europe and Washington over the Georgia crisis, Italy's foreign minister said Sunday.

Franco Frattini said that during talks he and Cheney expressed their 'shared wish for intense collaboration between Europe and the United States.'

'This Caucasus crisis cannot be solved unless there is intense collaboration ... which we will have,' Frattini said after the 40-minute meeting on the sidelines of a conference on Lake Como.

A Spanish research study has revealed, for the first time, that now only the Pyrenees has active glaciers.

Scotland's finance secretary has accused Gordon Brown of "caving in" to the case for more powers for the Scottish Parliament.

Two Northern Ireland football fans were taken to hospital last night after trouble flared in Slovakia ahead of today's world cup qualification match between the two countries.

It may not be a best-seller, but 'Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers' has won a literary accolade: oddest book title of the past 30 years.

The book topped a poll to find the weirdest-ever winner of Britain's Diagram Prize for unusually monickered volumes.

It beat previous winners including 'Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice' and 'How Green Were the Nazis?' in an online vote. The results were announced Friday by trade magazine The Bookseller, which organizes the prize.

A key Czech leader said Friday that a resurgent Russia has begun testing the West and warned that Ukraine's strategic Crimea peninsula could become a target.

BERLIN, Germany - Carmaker Daimler AG and utility RWE AG said today they would begin a joint electric car and charging station test project in the German capital, called "E-Mobility Berlin." It is the second ...

Karl Erjavec, the Slovenian defence minister, told Slovenian commercial broadcaster Pop on Thursday that he would freeze a 278-million-euro armoured personnel carrier deal with Patria if the Finnish state-owned ...

The prosecutor's office is investigating allegations that there was a CIA prison in Poland where al Qaeda suspects were questioned and guards might have used methods close to torture, the prime minister's top ...

Nokia warned its third-quarter market share would fall from the 40 percent notched up in the second three months of the year, compared with a steady market share it forecast earlier.

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A 59-year-old Frenchwoman is due to give birth to triplets after receiving an egg donation in Vietnam, the Paris hospital treating her said on Thursday.

Spain has taken a first step toward amending its restrictive law on abortion, a government minister said Thursday, moving to fill one of the last big gaps in a drive for sweeping social change in this ...

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney vowed on Thursday to stand by Georgia in its showdown with Russia, calling Moscow's military push into the ex-Soviet state an illegitimate act that cast doubt on its reliability.

I am sure you are already aware of the fact that Tony Blair's sister-in-law Lauren Booth is stuck in Gaza.

BELGRADE * Serbian leaders will press Brussels to speed up their country's European Union integration, a government source said yesterday ahead of their first visit to Brussels after the arrest of Radovan ...