Category Archives: World

Below the Line: showcasing our world news commenters

that's been going on, we want to highlight some of the action taking place in the comments of our live blogs and articles on world events. We're looking to feature some notable characters who are particularly active in the world news comment threads (we've

Juventus buy Asamoah outright

Juventus have bought Ghana's Kwadwo Asamoah outright on a four-year deal from Italian rivals Udinese, bringing to end a co-ownership deal. The Italian champions will pay Udinese a total of US$12.05 million over the next three financial years for him The 24

Escaped bull wrestled to the ground by passing pedestrian - video

Amateur footage captures the moment a passerby restrains a young bull, after it escaped from a livestock area in an industrial estate in Málaga on Monday. At first the bull calf is preoccupied ramming a car until he sees a pedestrian wearing a red t-shirt.

India firing 'killed Kashmir girl'

19 June 2013 Last updated at 11:24 ET Both sides accuse each other of incursions across the Line of Control A nine-year-old girl has been killed and three people wounded in prolonged and unprovoked mortar shelling by Indian troops, officials in Pakistani-a

Barack Obama's Berlin speech – full text

and the pursuit of happiness. And as Germans, you declared in your Basic Law that \"the dignity of man is inviolable.\" Around the world, nations have pledged themselves to a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognizes the inherent dignity and rights

Slim Whitman dies aged 89

Whitman in Tampa, Florida, and as a teenager was a promising baseball player, who returned to the game after service in the second world war. But while in the US navy, he had learned to play the guitar and he found another career avenue opening on local radio

The President in Berlin: Obama Through the Prism of the Cold War

that have something to say about the perils of excess state power. And at a time when Germany and many other countries in the world are full of questions about the US's far-reaching Internet monitoring program Prism, Obama's trip to Berlin seems timely indeed.

Biggest Viking exhibition in 20 years opens – and this time they're angry

All around the hull of the longest Viking warship ever found there are swords and battle axes, many bearing the scars of long and bloody use, in an exhibition opening in Copenhagen that will smash decades of good public relations for the Vikings as mild-ma

Portraits of women – by the men who loved them

The Azca gallery is tucked at the back of a shopping mall opposite Real Madrid's towering Bernabeu Stadium. It's the unlikely setting for one of the most interesting shows in this year's PhotoEspaña festival: the first European retrospective of the America