Ukraine's government held onto power after the opposition lost its attempt to topple the government by parliamentary means as a no-confidence vote failed by a substantial margin, Reuters reported. Protesters however, vowed to soldier on with their demonstrations, even as President Fedorovyc Yanukovich was not in the country.
Preeminent singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is facing preliminary charges by French authorities for comments he made during a 2012 Rolling Stone magazine interview in which he equated Croatians to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan
The Metro-North commuter train, which was traveling 82 miles-per-hour before it derailed on a 30 -mph curve on Sunday morning killed four people and injured more than 60.
For the first time in its modern history, Icelandic police officers carried out a fatal shooting early Monday with an exchange of gunfire with a man reported to be firing at cars from his apartment window, The Los Angeles Times reported. Two cops were wounded in the shootout, which followed a 5 a.m. emergency call from neighbors
