International Herald Tribune

Speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize laureate, criticized the Turkish government for its treatment of writers.

The country's independent reviewer of terrorism laws, Lord Carlile, said the government should not be allowed to set up a vast "data warehouse."

A drunken passenger on a flight from Turkey to Russia threatened to hijack a Turkish Airlines plane Wednesday but was subdued by passengers.

An informant who told the authorities of a Mafia death threat against a prominent journalist now denies having mentioned such a plot, a prosecutor said.

The United Nations' highest court gave Georgia a green light to pursue a case in which it accuses Russia of carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Since it joined the EU last year, Bulgaria has emerged as a cautionary tale for nations confronting the stark reality and heavy costs of drawing fragile post-Communist nations into their orbit.

Leaders of the world's economic powers said Wednesday that they favored a campaign to revamp structures that have governed global finance for more than 60 years.

The very characteristics that made British and German officials cringe about the French president have proved effective, even essential, in forging a swift European response to major crises.

Ten people, including police officers and the head of a company that distributes Tasers, have been detained in an investigation of spying on a far-left politician.

She falls ill a day before Moscow opens pretrial hearings into shooting death of a journalist, her client.

The far-right politician Jörg Haider was drunk at the time of his fatal car crash, his spokesman said Wednesday.

After squabbling publicly over how to deal with the global financial crisis, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy put aside their differences and gave the impression of friendship.

EU leaders gathered Wednesday for a summit that is being dominated by the global banking crisis and calls for a comprehensive overhaul of the world's financial structures.

The first high-level talks between Russia and Georgia since their war in August broke down Wednesday, but international sponsors said the negotiations had only hit a procedural snag and would resume next month.

A drunk man claiming to have a bomb tried to hijack a Russian-bound Turkish Airlines plane on Wednesday but was quickly overpowered by fellow passengers, officials said.

Aravind Adiga, 33, won the 40th Man Booker prize for his debut novel, "The White Tiger," a vivid exploration of India's class struggle.

The decision also raised questions about the role played by the first lady of France, Carla Sarkozy, who had visited the former member, Marina Petrella, last week and assured her that she would not be extradited.

French police have opened an inquiry into the discovery of pellets of toxic mercury in the car of a prominent Russian human rights lawyer, Karinna Moskalenko, who became ill days before scheduled pretrial hearings in Moscow into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya.

After devising a bank rescue plan that has now been endorsed by European and American officials, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain is seeing a revival to his political career.

A high-level delegation from the Russian energy company Gazprom met in Anchorage with state officials to talk about investing in Alaskan energy projects.