During this years shower maximum the meteors will seem to be emanating from the bright star Castor in the Gemini constellation.

"Three suicide bombers blew themselves up, while one was shot by police before he could blow himself up," an intelligence source said.

Currently, foreign owners of Macedonian real estate can remain in the country with a tourist visa for just three consecutive months.

"A Hijacking," Tobias Lindholm's dramatic thriller about the capturing of a Danish merchant ship by Somali pirates, was also a big winner

Posner says Bahrain's Sunni rulers need to take steps to open credible talks with the country's Shiite opposition groups.

107 players from nine countries, among them 21 grandmasters and 40 title-holders, competed in the 10-rounds Swiss event.

In the end it was decided that the award was for all Europeans, but it will be picked up by the heads of the EU's three main institutions.

Minasyan has lifted a total of 421 kg, falling a mere 3 kilos behind a gold winner Magomed Abuyev of Russia.