A violent brawl between supporters of the Ukrainian president and opposition lawmakers broke out in parliament yesterday, nearly overshadowing the naming of a new pro-government speaker to lead the fractious body.

Norway has won this year's Eurovision song contest.

The difficult job of extracting tons of broken concrete, metal bridge beams and submerged cars from the Mississippi River was moving forward in the US today, six days after a Minneapolis bridge suddenly collapsed.

Poland and the United States today opened formal talks on Washington’s contentious request to place part of a new missile defence system in the eastern European nation.