French President Francois Hollande makes an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to explain his decision to pull troops out a year earlier than planned ... Two officers of the container ship that ran aground off New Zealand causing its worst maritime spill are jailed for seven months ... Trading in Bankia shares is suspended amid reports that it is going to ask for a big government bailout later on Friday ... Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati confirms that 11 Lebanese Shia pilgrims kidnapped in Syria have been released after being abducted in Syria on Tuesday ... A young penguin which escaped from a Tokyo aquarium is caught after more than two months on the loose in the Japanese capital ... CANNES, France (Reuters) - "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson is a ruthless billionaire on a journey to self-destruction in Canadian director David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis", a searing attack on greed ... HOUSTON (Reuters) - Hourly workers began a strike on Friday at Husky Energy's 155,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Lima, Ohio, but the refinery remained in production with managers taking over ... Shareholders of Alibaba.com agree to the company's plan to buy back shares in a bid to take the firm private ... Opposition lawmakers on Friday blocked the Ukrainian Parliament a day after a brawl in the chamber sent one legislator to the hospital ... It is likely a decision will be made on Friday on where to site one of the great scientific projects of the 21st Century - the Square Kilometre Array ... | 
