The cause of the fault has yet to be established, `but the doors of the launch service tower did not open,` said Franco Bonacina of the ESA. The European Space Agency (ESA) on Monday postponed the launch of its most sophisticated Earth observation satellites to date because of a technical …

A separatist official said the economic slump was slowing the reconstruction effort. South Ossetia’s separatist administration said on Monday Russia was failing to honour a pledge to spend millions of dollars repairing the devastation from last year’s war in the breakaway Georgian region. A separatist official said the economic slump …

Ahmed Bashev, mayor of the town of Garmen, and Murat Boshnak, a teacher were questioned for formenting racial and religious hatred. Bulgaria’s national security agency on Monday launched an investigation into a local mayor and an Islamic studies teacher, on suspicion of spreading of radical Islam and fomenting religious hatred. …