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The European Union's new commissioner in charge of enlargement will be Czech Republic's �tefan Fule. This was announced today in Brussels by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso...His duties will also be expanded to include EU's relations with its neighbors,...

He will spend this weekend agonising over whether he wants to pay it...This is standard for any political leader, but Hockey's circumstances are particularly delicate. He has three children under the age of five, one of them a newborn. Xavier...

Aaron Rodgers tossed three touchdown passes Thursday, leading Green Bay to a 34-12 victory over the Lions at Detroit's annual Thanksgiving Day contest...His first quarter scoring pass and Mason Crosby 's second-quarter field goal erased a 7-0 deficit, and Green...

Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro outgunned Roger Federer in London on Thursday...S biography failed to mention drug-taking, tanking, wigs or bogeymen. The first three omissions were because, unlike Andre Agassi, he was unfamiliar with the lot of them.

Britain's main safety regulator threw the government's energy plans into chaos tonight by damning the nuclear industry's leading designs for new plants. The Health and Safety Executive said it could not recommend plans for new reactors because of wide-ranging concerns...

All-girl pop act the Pussycat Dolls have broken up after a rift formed between frontwoman Nicole Sherzinger and the rest of the group, according to reports. The New York Post reported Sherzinger was no longer on speaking terms with the...

It was a bad start for the December F&O series Friday, as equities ended in the red but after managing to bounce back from intraday lows. Realty and banks, the victims of correction in global markets, managed to stage a...

There's trouble in paradise – and Brad could suffer because of it Brad Pitt's construction project could be abandoned because of the economic crisis. Photograph: Jean Baptiste Lacroix/FilmMagic Lost in Showbiz was almost too upset to come to the keyboard...

President Macapagal-Arroyo gave Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno on Friday, authority to exercise control over the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and relieve officials in connection with the massacre in Maguindanao.

No written proposals have been submitted and any new bids or other options for the Swedish unit will be reviewed by Detroit-based GM's board at a meeting next week, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified...