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First, a few quotes that relate to selection of EU's top officials: Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe. ( Mr Van Rompuy ) If the point of the Lisbon Treaty was to...

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...

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...

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...

Rom Houben was trapped 23 years in a coma, a Belgium man was completely paralyzed after an automobile accident at age 23. He was declared in a coma in 1983 because he was unable to communicate he couldnt speak or...

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,...

In a show of courage quite remarkable for one so young, a 13 year old schoolboy, one William Robey, confronted the BNP leader at the Menin Gate War Memorial in Ypres. As the Last Post was being played, William spotted...

European Union is in a great proble after the agreement which they has done before five weeks ago in Brussels U.N. conference in Copenhagen to tackle the problem. The European Union is the main front in pressing for binding, european...

Greece's opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) has won the country's snap general elections. Outgoing PM Costas Karamanlis has congratulated Pasok leader George Papandreou and resigned as leader of the conservative New Democracy party. With most ballots counted, the Socialists...