Extensive renovations to Amsterdam's renowned Rijksmuseum will continue for an additional two years and the full museum will not reopen until 2010, the Dutch culture ministry announced Wednesday.

Authorities are outraged after blinking electronic devices, planted to promote a cartoon, caused panic in Boston and forced police to close roads.

The U.S. Federal Reserve held steady on interest rates on Wednesday, leaving its key rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent. The rate has not changed since June 2006.

Legislators loyal to Hugo Chavez have approved a law giving Venezuela's president the power to enact sweeping measures by decree, but critics fear authoritarianism.

Delaware Sen. Joe Biden officially entered the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday, saying he has a comprehensive plan to resolve the war in Iraq.

Thousands of Greek high school students staged a demonstration at the Acropolis Tuesday, forming a human chain around the ancient Athens monument and demanding the return of the famed marbles British ambassador Lord Elgin carried off more than 200 years ago.

Scotland Yard detectives looking into the death of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko have sent two months' worth of their findings to prosecutors - the first step towards laying murder charges in the poisoning case.

Police arrested the top fundraiser for the ruling British Labour party for a second time Tuesday in connection with the ongoing cash for honours scandal.

British police in collaboration with MI-5 security services have arrested nine people suspected of planning a "different approach to terrorism" never before seen in the West.

Checkpoint guards halted a suicide bomber driving an oil truck north of Baghdad Wednesday, but not before the attacker was able to blow himself up and wound nine soldiers near an Iraqi army headquarters.

Sidney Sheldon, the best-selling American novelist, died Tuesday at the age of 89.

A Washington courtroom was packed Tuesday, as people clamoured to hear New York Times reporter Judith Miller testify in the CIA leak case.

British archaeologists have found the remains of a 4,600-year-old village where the elusive builders of Stonehenge may have resided.

A senator challenged the U.S. president's assertion that he is the 'decider' when it comes to war strategies, saying the responsibility is shared among lawmakers

For their courage and work to protect human rights, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan and Darfur human rights activist Mossaad Mohamed Ali will share the Swedish Olof Palme prize.

Somalia's president said Tuesday he'll call a national reconciliation conference in an effort to end 16 years of conflict as African Union peacekeepers are poised to enter the country, said a report.

Canada plans to spend $3.1 million on rural development projects in the volatile province of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.

The British government is sending a message that religious people have no role in public life by refusing to exempt Catholic adoption agencies from anti-discrimination laws regarding gay couples, a senior cardinal says.

A Canadian contractor working at a NATO base was found slain in his apartment a month ago in Sarajevo, CBC News has learned.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be "functionally extinct" within decades, warns a leaked portion of a major United Nations report on climate change.