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LONDON - A German hotel has slammed former US First Lady Laura Bush's claim of possible poisoning, stating its a publicity stunt to draw attention to her memoirs.
LONDON - The character of Heidi, the mountain girl living with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, in author Johanna Spyri's classic Swiss tale, may actually have been inspired from a German story written 50 years earlier by Adam von Kamp.
THIMPU - Showering praise on Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has described him as an 'academic' and a 'visionary' who has 'his heart in the right place.'
LONDON - A British war medal was returned to the family of a World War I soldier who possibly threw it away in disgust 90 years ago.
EU chief says China still has confidence in euro
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