Former Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he will challenge acting president and current Parliamentary Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski in the June 20 special elections.

The Communications Ministry announced today that the ban was lifted after results of “intensive technical scrutiny in a controlled laboratory,” paving the way for the gadget’s entry into the country.

The Prime Minister of Thailand struck down the calls of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) to dissolve parliament in 30 days, one of the demands forwarded so that they will return to the negotiating table.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan issued a national energy policy to help lessen the impact of the country’s growing power crisis and placate protests from citizens.

Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has offered to help stabilize the situation in Iraq following a bombing spree in Baghdad that killed more than 70 people.

More than 50 people were wounded when a series of explosions hit the business district in Thailand’s capital city of Bangkok.

The seventh president of the International Olympic Committee died of cardiac arrest Tuesday, April 21 in Barcelona, Spain. He was 89.

Tension in the Korean Peninsula is expected to heighten as a local newspaper says that the South Korean military intelligence submitted a report to President Lee Myung-bak saying that North Korea was responsible for the sinking of a Navy ship that killed 46 sailors.

The German aviation authority has given the green light to some 50 Lufthansa flights, as ash clouds from an Iceland volcano begin to subside and losses by airlines breached the $1-billion mark.

Senior Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi said women who reveal too much skin cause earthquakes.