Legend has it that a Roman empress first brought cats to Cyprus to do battle with poisonous snakes, but centuries later it's the island's financial crisis that has sparked a population boom.
Some 1,700 years after Empress Helena shipped the (...)
European Union foreign ministers on Saturday agreed to tighten sanctions on Syria and tasked foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton with preparing the new round of measures by October.
"There still is a huge difference between the sanctions against (...)
