With a monstrous cloud of volcanic ash closing down airports from Britain to Finland to Austria on Friday, much of Europe was confronting a bizarre question: What do you do in a world without air travel?
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, returning from Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, was managing matters from his iPad in Madrid.

A United Nations report into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto has been delayed at Pakistan's request.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accepted a postponement until 15 April hours before its scheduled release.

The UN refugee agency has welcomed Pakistan's decision to allow nearly 1.7 million Afghan refugees to remain in the country for three more years.

Hundreds of women call for rejecting any demand to reconsider proposed marriage age bill. Hundreds of women rallied outside Yemen's parliament on Tuesday in support of a law setting a minimum age for marriage in the country, two days after a larger protest opposing the law.

Israeli forces fire rubber bullets, stun grenades at protesters in Palestinian East Jerusalem.

Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with police in Israeli-occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem Tuesday amid heightened tensions in the Holy City where Israel vowed to expand illegal Jewish settlements.

IEA warns demand for oil will not recover in advanced economies overall in 2010.

OPEC is widely expected to maintain its official oil production quota when it meets this week, with the cartel satisfied with the current level of crude prices, analysts said.

The United Nations Council of Human Rights is intended to condemn a move by Switzerland to impose a ban on the construction of new minarets in the Alpine nation, characterizing the measure as "Islamophobic."

Death toll of the earthquake that hit eastern Turkey on Monday reached 57, according to reports by the Turkish officials. A strong earthquake, with a magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey on Monday, leaving 57 people dead and knocking down houses in at least three small villages.