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U.N. Panel Unable to Win Kosovo Agreement

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 7 -- Mediators from the United States, Russia and the European Union have failed to obtain an agreement on Kosovo's future, setting the stage for a drive by the Western powers to support a declaration of independence by the predominantly ethnic Albanian province early next year.

In a Europe Torn Over Mosques, A City Offers Accommodation

C On a recent Friday, 200 Muslim worshipers crowded into a former carpentry workshop here for noon prayers. The men knelt on red carpets in a first-floor hall, the women squeezed into the tiny administrative office upstairs.

Police Charge 'Dead' Briton With Fraud

LONDON, Dec. 8 -- British police filed fraud charges Saturday against a man who was declared dead after he disappeared on a canoeing trip in 2002 but last week walked into a police station claiming amnesia.

'Dead' Briton's Wife Arrested for Fraud

LONDON, Dec. 9 --The woman whose husband is accused of faking his own death was arrested Sunday shortly after returning to Britain.

Putin Anoints Successor To Russian Presidency

MOSCOW, Dec. 10 -- Dmitry Medvedev, a 42-year-old deputy prime minister known as a rare moderate in a hard-line Kremlin, was put on track Monday to become Russia's next president when President Vladimir Putin endorsed him. The surprise announcement, all but guaranteeing Medvedev victory in an ele...

U.S. Strategy Succeeds in Bali

BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon conceded Wednesday that the United States had succeeded in achieving one of its key objectives at the climate conference here, blocking a proposal that called on industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40...

Gore: U.S. Obstructing Climate Talks

BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 -- As former vice president Al Gore urged delegates here Thursday night to "go far, quickly" in reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, international negotiators remained at an impasse over how to construct a road map leading to a worldwide climate...

E.U. Pledges Assistance to Kosovo on Path Toward Independence

PARIS, Dec. 14 -- European Union leaders on Friday pledged 1,800 police and administrative officials to Kosovo, part of a package of aid and diplomacy intended to facilitate a well-choreographed, quick and peaceful march to independence for the breakaway Serbian province.

Putin Named Time "Person of the Year"

NEW YORK -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" on Wednesday for imposing stability that restored Russia as a world power.

In Europe, Opening Night at the Border

HRADEK NAD NISOU, Czech Republic -- For more than 60 years, this remote stretch of bottomland was one of the most closely guarded sectors of Central Europe.