Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi said he did not fear death and defiantly vowed to fight "to the beyond", as NATO insisted there would be no halt to in its air war despite Italian calls for a cessation.
The Pakistani and Indian foreign secretaries were scheduled to begin two-day talks in Islamabad later on Thursday on the longstanding Kashmir dispute, peace and security and confidence building measures, sources said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that he didn't rule out the possibility to lead a political party in future.
Four bombs ripped through Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad Thursday evening, killing at least 40 people in the worst violence the capital has seen in months. An American civilian aid specialist in Iraq was killed in a separate attack.
The former Berlin waterfront estate of Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels is going under the hammer.
The Palestinian leadership on Thursday rejected statements from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he suggested the recognition of a Palestinian state in exchange for dropping Palestinian refugees' right of return.
Britain is contact with Taliban insurgents to help pave the way to peace in Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed US President Barack Obama's announcement that US troop levels in Afghanistan will be reduced by 33,000 by September next year.
President Nicolas Sarkozy's office on Thursday announced a progressive withdrawal of France's troops from Afghanistan, hours after the United States laid out a drawdown.
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, a political battering ram picked to turn around his country's economic fortunes, may find the force of his oratory not enough to convince sceptical markets and EU partners.
Taliban militants fighting Afghan and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan on Thursday downplayed the announcement of U.S. President Barack Obama as a trick to deceive public opinion and called for the complete pullout of foreign forces, a Taliban statement said.
Pro-British paramilitaries blamed for some of the worst riots in Northern Ireland in years feel peace has marginalised them and exposed them to police crack-downs, residents and local politicians said on Wednesday.
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