The ancient sport of chariot racing is to be revived in Rome in the fall of 2009, the organizers of the races announced on Tuesday.

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

A waxwork of Adolf Hitler will return to Berlin's new Madame Tussauds as soon as experts have restored the head ripped off by a demonstrator on its opening day, the museum said on Monday.

A suicide bomber has rammed a car full of explosives into the gates of the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital, killing 41 people, officials say.

Cult director Emir Kusturitsa was in Kharkiv, but as an actor. The shootings were in the center of the city, on Maidan Svobody, during the passed weekend, but the organizers concealed any information about the future movie thoroughly. The only

An American man who was born female but subsequently underwent gender reassignment has given birth to a girl, US media have reported.

At least 50 people have been injured in Belarus after a bomb exploded during a concert in the capital, Minsk.

Summer rest with a broom, a scalpel and a cement-mixer. About 200 people have come to Bohodukhiv volunteers summer camp from 9 countries of the world. Asia, Europe, Africa, Northern America. Opera singers wipe floors here, fighter pilots hag wall-paper,

Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire owner of Chelsea FC, has quit as governor of a remote Far East region, the Kremlin press service said on Thursday.

Denmark is the happiest country in the world, according to the latest World Values Survey published by the United States National Science Foundation.

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday condemning the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine but falling short of recognizing it as an act of genocide.

Eighteen miners were killed when a shaft collapsed at a colliery in central China, state media said.

A Palestinian man has driven a bulldozer into a bus and several cars in Jerusalem, killing three people, before being shot dead.

Ambitious plans for European missions to the Moon and Mars are being considered by the French government.

The representative of Ukraine Nataliya Shmarenkova - singer known as Kamalia won the final of the beauty contest Missis World 2008 held in Russian city of Kaliningrad. She received the main prize of the contest - a diamond diadem.

One billion 439 million 900 thousand hryvnyas (approximately $ 333 million) has entered the city budget of Kharkiv for the first half a year.

At least four people have died in violent protests in the Mongolian capital over alleged electoral fraud, officials and state media say.

Ukrainian men live on the average 12 years less than women. Gender problems of men have been discussed in Kharkiv during round-table "Men rights in the scope of equal rights and equal opportunities".

Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation 'may be redeployed from Sevastopol to Syria', where Russia has a sea base, as head of the Representation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in Odessa region Konstantin Rzhepyshevskyi said.

Each year people in Ukraine earn 310 billion hryvnyas 'in envelopes' (salary given in envelopes to evade taxes). This is information aired by director of the State employment center Volodymyr Halytskyi.