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GENEVA - At least 28 people, including 22 Belgian and Dutch schoolchildren around 12-years-old, were killed on Tuesday night when the bus bringing them back to Belgium from a skiing holiday crashed into the wall of a tunnel in Switzerland near the border with Italy, officials said on Wednesday.

Moscow (CNN) -- A twin-engine plane carrying 43 people crashed soon after takeoff in Siberia on Monday, killing all but 12 people on board, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said.

ATHENS - Prime Minister George Papandreou and his chief rival agreed Sunday night to create a new unity government, under a new prime minister, that will move ahead with the country's debt-relief deal with the European Union and then hold new elections. Mr. Papandreou agreed to resign once the details are completed on Monday.

Berlin, Germany (CNN) -- German President Horst Koehler resigned suddenly Monday over what he said was heavy criticism about comments he made on Germany's military role in the world, which he said had been misinterpreted.

Krakow, Poland (CNN) -- Poland's first couple was laid to rest on Sunday, marking the end of a journey filled with grief for the central European nation.The bodies of President Lech Kaczynski and his wife were taken along the historic "royal route" from St. Mary's Basilica to Wawel Castle after the funeral Mass

Greece has accepted an international aid package worth 110 billion euros (US $146 billion) over three years, Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker said Sunday.

London, England (CNN) -- David Cameron, Britain's youngest prime minister for almost two centuries, began his first day at Downing Street by appointing Cabinet ministers from his own Conservative party and coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats.

A senior member of the Russian government opened a rare public breach with the Kremlin on Sunday, saying he would refuse to stay on under the leadership shuffle that was announced over the weekend, in which the president and prime minister will change places.The official, Aleksei L. Kudrin, Russia's long-serving finance minister, said he would no longer work in the government if President Dmitri A. Medvedev became prime minister, citing what he said were irresponsible spending decisions by Mr. Medvedev.

Former IRA local commander-turned-politician Martin McGuinness will have to defeat an openly gay senator and a popular Labour party politician, among others, if he is to become president of the Republic of Ireland, it emerged Wednesday as the election ballot was finalized.

There was a plane ticket from Perugia, Italy, to Seattle, Washington, with Amanda Knox's name on it. Her parents bought it in the hope that Knox would be home for Christmas.

There was a plane ticket from Perugia, Italy, to Seattle, Washington, with Amanda Knox's name on it.

There was a plane ticket from Perugia, Italy, to Seattle, Washington, with Amanda Knox's name on it.

Amanda Knox, an American college student, was convicted in 2009 of the murder of her British housemate in Perugia, Italy. On Oct. 3, 2011, an Italian appellate court overturned the homicide convictions of Ms. Knox and a co-defendant and ordered them freed, ending a sensationally lurid trial that had made Ms. Knox notorious on both sides of the Atlantic.

The announcement on Tuesday by the Russian space agency that it will delay the launching of the next crew to the International Space Station is a concern for NASA, which is relying solely on the Russians for astronaut transportation.

Police arrested six men in Birmingham, England overnight in what they called a pre-planned, intelligence-led counter-terror operation, they said Monday.

Pilot error, slight intoxication of the navigator, and a failure of the crew to interact properly caused a plane crash that killed 47 people in June of this year, Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said Monday.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Sunday that his sexual encounter with a New York City hotel chambermaid was "an error" and "a moral failure" he would regret his whole life, but not a criminal act.

The British police said Monday that officers arrested six men and a woman overnight on terrorism-related charges in the central city of Birmingham. The arrests followed a "large, intelligence-led counterterrorism operation," the police said.

Six men appeared in a London court Monday charged in connection with an alleged planned terrorist bombing campaign in the United Kingdom. The six were arrested last week in Birmingham as part of what authorities called a "major operation."

The crew of an Italian ship seized by pirates on Monday was freed Tuesday thanks to an operation by U.S. and British troops working with the Italian military, the Italian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

ROME - In his narrowest escape yet, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi barely survived a confidence vote on Friday, saving his government from collapse but effectively preventing it from legislating.

In his narrowest escape yet, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi barely survived a confidence vote on Friday, saving his government from collapse but effectively preventing it from legislating.