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Green bloc takes up 10 more seats in European parliament after spectacular wins and disastrous defeatsEuropean Green parties enjoyed wildly fluctuating fortunes in the European elections, ranging from winning a spectacular 16% in the French polls to being effectively wiped out in Ireland. In the UK, the party held its two English seats, and knocked Labour into fifth place in two regions.While centre left and socialist parties were heavily hit by a general swing to the right, the Greens increased their overall share both of the European vote and the number of seats in the parliament. The party now has 54 seats compared with 44 in 2004, and, in alliance with Plaid Cymru and a Catalan group, is now now the fifth largest block in the European parliament.Overall, the party gained seats in nine countries. The most spectacular results by far were in France where Europe Ecologie, led by the man who led the student riots in Paris in 1968, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and peasant leader José Bové, gained

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to allow the sale of bankrupt automaker Chrysler LLC to a group led by Italian carmaker Fiat SpA, saying that blocking the deal would have 'grave consequences.'

Phnom Penh - The Khmer Rouge's former chief torturer told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal Tuesday that prison guards murdered babies by smashing them against a tree at execution facility during the group's 1975-79 rule. Kaing Guek Eav, kno...

NEW YORK -- Government officials asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to allow the sale of most of Chrysler's assets to a group led by Italy's Fiat without further delay.

Hong Kong - Hong Kong's worst rainstorm on record, which saw 145 millimetres of rain fall in a single hour, cost the wealthy city 75 million US dollars, according to a report issued Monday. The environmental group Greenpeace conducted a detailed surv...

David Cameron will on Monday start negotiations to form a new anti-federalist grouping in the European parliament, after the Tories notched up a comfortable victory in the European elections

A small but persistent group of lenders has turned to the U.S. Supreme Court in its last attempt to challenge the government-backed sale of Chrysler's assets to a company run by Italian automaker Fiat.

Full-throated rumbling and roaring is one of the ways male bison establish their dominance in the herd. When a female runs through a group of males, it often provokes a 'fighting storm' — the males bellow, head-butt and fight. In the end, the most dominant male in the group will pair with the female.

In Philadelphia, a man wanted for questioning about the rape an 11-year-old girl was severely beaten by a group of men in the victim's neighborhood. Attorney Christine Flowers explains that while it is wrong to take the law into our own hands, in this case of vigilante justice, some are cheering.