Truckee - Led by Peja of the Polish rap group Slums Attack, Europe's rappers recorded a multilingual tribute to political and cultural freedom message of the American-funded station Radio Free Europe.

A dog from Budochka, a small village located in Belarus, inherited almost a million dollars from a citizen of the United States who is of Belarusian origin.

Maksim Bakiyev, the son of ousted Kyrgyz President, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, was sentenced to 25 years in absentia for signing agreements that prejudiced the country’s interests, by losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Mogilev - A cat managed to sneak into someone's car in Mogilev, Belarus and apparently spent four days locked in there, until rescued by the powers of a Russian social network.

The 30th EU-Russia Summit held in Brussels on Thursday and Friday led to little consensus on key bilateral issues discussed, such as energy, trade and visa-free travel.

Minsk - President Alyaksandr Lukashenka of Belarus, dubbed Europe's last dictator, has issued a presidential decree that proposes forbidding workers from quitting their jobs and threatens those that leave with compulsory labour.

The European Union has awarded this year's Sakharov prize for Freedom of Thought to two Iranian dissidents, a lawyer and a filmmaker. The lawyer, Sasrin Sotoudeh is in prison, and the filmmaker, Jafar Panahi is under house arrest.

In early October 2011, then Prime Minister Putin revealed Russia’s intention to create Eurasian Union, a new inter-governmental economic and political organization, based on the European Union (EU) integration model.

After playing back-to-back marathon matches to get to the U.S. Open semifinals, Maria Sharapova appeared to finally run out of gas - and it cost her a spot in the final.

After a month in KGB custody, a Belrusian journalist and real estate agent have been freed on bail, after agreeing not to leave the country.

A state department spokesman said last week the U.S. is “deeply concerned” about tensions between Sweden and Belarus over a free-speech teddy bear drop last month, and “stands with Sweden” in working for human rights in the former Soviet Republic.

Belarus has now ordered all Swedish diplomats out of the country, a week after expelling the Swedish ambassador for having contact with opposition groups.

London - Not surprisingly, as the dressage portion of Olympic eventing came to a close at Greenwich Park today, defending Olympic champions Germany, took the lead in the team event with Japan's Yoshiaki Oiwa, turning in the best individual dressage ride.

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has admitted that a small Swedish plane entered his country's airspace on July 4th and dropped hundreds of teddybears wearing tiny black parachutes.

Belarus officials have arrested at least one other person in connection with the July 4 free-speech teddy-bear drop, still insisting it was a hoax. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the stunt called the country’s president “an armed clown."

Belarus authorities took a dim view of a July 4 publicity stunt when 1,000 teddy bears with free speech slogans were air-dropped in the countryside near Minsk. A journalist who posted photos of the bears has been arrested and held for the past three days.

Minsk - Female activists from Ukranian FEMA claim that they were kidnapped by the Belarusian KGB on Monday following a topless protest against the regime of the Belarusian president.

Geneva - Originally meant to be built in Waxahachie, Texas, under the nickname of Desertron, Switzerland-France's CERN states it has seen "tantalizing hints" of the elusive Higgs boson, also called the "God particle," in two of their experiments.

An Ottoman ship bombed by Italian war planes during World War 1 is to be salvaged from the Red Sea and displayed as a tourist attraction in Saudi Arabia.

Some NGOs genuinely contribute to enhancing welfare, to the mitigation of hunger, the furtherance of human and civil rights, or the curbing of disease. Others are ideologically biased, religiously-committed and, often, at the service of special interests.