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Rom Houben was 20 when he was involved in a gruesome car crash following which he was presumed brain dead by doctors. Today he is 46 and has dealt with the misfortune of spending more than half his life in...

Armenia is ready to work on the development of the Association Agreement with the EU and the creation of in-depth and comprehensive free trade area, as well as striving for greater strengthening of relations with the EU, in particular, the...

A Belgian car crash victim who was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state for 23 years was conscious the whole time, it has emerged. Rom Houben was 23 at the time of his accident, but tests carried out by...

A man believed to be in a coma for 23 years following a car accident was actually conscious but completely paralyzed. "I dreamed myself away," said Belgian Rom Houben, now 49. A doctor finally made the correct diagnosis and discovered...

EU leaders have chosen the Belgian Prime Minister, Herman van Rompuy, to be the first permanent European Council President. The other top job created by the Lisbon Treaty - foreign affairs supremo - has gone to the EU Trade Commissioner,...

Ron Houben's poignant words after being locked for 23 years inside his paralyzed body may not be his own, according to some skeptical experts. They believe the Belgian, misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state, is definitely sentient. But they...

Gordon Brown was instead awarded a consolation prize of a British politician winning a key foreign affairs role instead...Observers pointed out that the post of high representative will have potentially more real powers than the EU presidency, as Baroness Ashton...

The 46-year-old Rom Houben was injured in a car crash in 1983 when he was 20 and doctors took him to be in coma, although they now agree that he was conscious throughout. However, it was not until three years...

Good evening readers, A Belgian man is awake after 23 years. Rom Houben was diagnosed as being in a vegetative state but was said to have appeared to have been conscious all the while. He was allegedly in a coma...

Greece's finance minister promised Wednesday that the country would not default on its loans as the cost of insuring its bonds soared to the highest among the 16 nations that use the euro. George Papaconstantinou told reporters that he was...