TURKU (Finland) - THE world's biggest and most expensive cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas, was handed over to the Royal Caribbean cruiseline in the Finnish port of Turku by shipbuilder STX on Wednesday.
MOSCOW - RUSSIA came under fire from international AIDS campaigners on Wednesday for refusing to provide drug users with drug substitution therapy to stem a spreading HIV epidemic.
AACHEN (Germany) - AN 88-YEAR-OLD former member of Adolf Hitler's fanatical Waffen SS went on trial Wednesday on three counts of murder for the wartime hit-style killings of three civilians in the Netherlands.
WASHINGTON - US PRESIDENT Barack Obama will on Wednesday sign a US$680 billion (S$953 billion) defense authorisation bill, which includes funds to train Afghan security forces and for more mine resistant troop carriers.
