Marc Jacobs and spring captured in NYC - Huffingtonpost.com
... cities in the world, in one of the most exciting neighborhoods--the East Village, where my parents grew up, met on the night the Beatles landed at JFK, and fell in love in Little Ukraine where Veselka , the 24-hour Ukrainian diner on Second ...
Eurovision: Plagiarism scandal erupts over Ukraine's ... - KPNews.com
Olena Omelyanchuk writes: The 23-year-old singer, Alyosha, won the Ukrainian national final yesterday. She performed the song To Be Free. But after the show, it was found out that Alyosha's entry is breaking the Eurovision rules: To Be Free was ...
Ukraine PM exorcises predecessor Tymoshenko's ghost - Big Hollywood
The glamorous Orange Revolution princess and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko may now be in opposition but her ghosts are still haunting the government offices in Ukraine. Or so her successor insists, who said Friday he had had to ask an Orthodox ...
Ukraine's Constitutional Court to assess lawfulness of ... - KPNews.com
According to the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine would review the lawfulness of the creation of the new coalition with individual lawmakers until April 11 – the date of a possible visit of the ...
U.S. ambassador in Ukraine: America will not allow ... - Kavkaz-Center
Friends of Ukraine in Europe would do everything possible to ensure that the South Ossetian scenario would not repeated in Crimea, the US ambassador in Ukraine John Tefft said in an interview with a Crimean paper. "I saw this tragedy with my own eyes ...
Ukraine loses its Orange glow - Boston Globe
UKRAINE’S ENTHRALLING Orange Revolution of 2004 has lost its shine. This turnabout became obvious when the original villain of the piece, pro-Russian apparatchik Viktor Yanukovych, defeated the Orange heroes Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko ...
China’s Ukrainian Moves - Moscow Times
Much of the discussion surrounding Viktor Yanukovych ’s victory in Ukraine’s presidential election has been focused on whether his policies will be oriented more toward the European Union or Russia. Of course, significant changes are expected in ...
Church Suggests Ukraine Gas Deal - Moscow Times
The Russian Orthodox Church made a request to the government that it lower gas prices for Ukrainian chemical companies, saying it was a "sensible initiative" to assist the companies, which help the Ukrainian church. The request was made in a letter ...
Russia to help Ukraine maintain sole submarine - Press Trust of India
Moscow, Mar 21 (Itar-Tass) Russia will help Ukraine to ensure the technical maintenance of the Zaporozhye submarine, the only one Ukraine has, a top Russian Navy official has said. "We are stepping up our work. We received an application of our ...
Canada's Brian McKeever wins third cross-country gold - Vancouver Sun
Canada's tied with the Ukraine in third pace for medals with 19. Russia topped the medals count with 38, followed by Germany with 24. Right from the start of the Paralympic Games, Team Russia dominated the para-Nordic events with 22 medals in cross ...
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Another British Columbia avalanche kills 2
A third deadly avalanche in British Columbia within a week has killed two French skiers as they were coming down a mountain after being dropped off by helicopter, police said Sunday.
Nepalese doc is 'God of Sight' to poor
 Thousands of doctors all over the world have been trained in Dr. Sanduk Ruit's novel approach of removing cataracts, with the hope of slowly lessening the leading cause of blindness that affects 18 million people worldwide.
Explosives found aboard India plane
Explosive material was found in a package on a passenger plane after it landed in southern India, but it was not attached to a detonator and could not have exploded, officials said on Sunday.
Iran's supreme leader cold to Obama overture
Iran's supreme leader sharply denounced the United States on Sunday, accusing it of plotting to overthrow its clerical leadership, in a chilly response to an overture by President Barack Obama for better cultural ties with Iran.
Power cut to 60,000 as cyclone hits Australia
About 60,000 homes are without power, trees and signs have blown over and boats have been smashed on the rocks after a massive storm blew across the coast of northeastern Australia.
Officials: U.S. missiles kill 4 in Pakistan
Suspected U.S. drones fire missiles at a house and car in a militant-dominated tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least four people, officials said.
China state media accuses Google of political agenda
China's state media on Sunday accused Google Inc of pushing a political agenda by "groundlessly accusing the Chinese government" of supporting hacker attacks and by trying to export its own culture, values and ideas.
Transport strikes, marches on Tuesday in France
French train lines, public transport, schools and day care centers face disruptions on Tuesday as unions strike to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's policies on jobs and the economy.
Net called great threat to rare species
The Internet is one of the greatest threats to rare species, fueling the illegal wildlife trade and making it easier to buy everything from live baby lions to wine made from tiger bones, conservationists say.
With cheap food imports, Haiti can’t feed itself
 The earthquake smashed markets, collapsed warehouses and left over 2.5 million people without enough to eat. It may also have shaken up the way the developing world gets food.
Pope amid abuse furor: Refrain from judging sinners
 Pope Benedict XVI urges Catholics to refrain from judging sinners a day after he rebukes Irish bishops for their handling of a half-century of sexual abuse of minors by clergy.
Israel: No building restrictions in east Jerusalem
Israel will not restrict construction in east Jerusalem, Israel's prime minister said Sunday hours before he left for Washington, despite a clear U.S. demand that building there must stop and a crisis in relations between the two longtime allies.
164 people face charges over massacres in Nigeria
A Nigerian police spokesman says 164 people will be charged with a variety of offenses, including terrorism, for their suspected roles in the slaughter of more than 200 people in central Nigeria this month.
Afghan women confront deadly task: Childbirth
Afghan bomb attacks kill at least 12 civilians
A suicide bomber killed 10 civilians on Sunday when he detonated his explosives near a crowd in southern Afghanistan, while a roadside bomb in the east killed two others, officials said.
Donors conference raises $850 million for Darfur
An international donors conference on Sunday raised $850 million for projects intended to ensure the safe return of nearly 3 million people displaced during the war in Darfur.
Iceland fears eruption could spark another
 A volcano in southern Iceland erupts for the first time in almost 200 years, raising concerns that it could trigger a larger and potentially more dangerous eruption at a volatile volcano nearby.
Recount calls add to Iraq's political tension
Iraq's president on Sunday demanded a recount in this month's historic parliamentary elections, intensifying the political conflict over the not-yet-completed tally and increasing the chances that the vote will be a long, chaotic test of the nascent democracy.
IMF warns wealthiest nations about their debt
The IMF warned the world's wealthiest nations Sunday to watch their levels of government debt, saying it could drag down the growth needed to ensure continued economic recovery.
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