Friday, 25 May 2012 18:22
Police in Azerbaijan have detained about 35 people after a group of opposition protesters held a small rally in central Baku on the eve of the Eurovision song contest final.
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Police in Azerbaijan have detained about 35 people after a group of opposition protesters held a small rally in central Baku on the eve of the Eurovision song contest final.

A suspected car bomb blast outside a police station in central Turkey has reportedly killed an officer and wounded 20 other people on Friday.

At least three Lebanese Shia pilgrims were killed and seven wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their bus in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, a police source said.

A French prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape in a Washington hotel by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief and one-time French presidential hopeful.

Veteran nationalist Tomislav Nikolic is on course to narrowly defeat incumbent Boris Tadic in Serbia's presidential runoff vote, surprising many analysts in the Balkan nation.

Robin Gibb, a performer who enjoyed decades of success as part of all-brother singing trio the Bee Gees, has died aged 62 after a battle against cancer.

A Dutch court has sentenced a former a creche worker who sexually assaulted 67 children and produced child pornography to 18 years in prison.

At least seven people have been killed and up to 50 others injured in a 6.0-magnitude earthquake near the northern Italian city of Bologna, according to the Italian news agency ANSA.

Serbians are voting in a presidential runoff election, with pre-vote opinion polls predicting victory for incumbent Boris Tadic over his nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic.
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