The second day of Christmas was one of the most fatiguing for the sellers in the stores on the main streets of London.

According to local media boutiques on Oxford Street, Regent Street and Bond Street sell at reduced by 70 to 90 percent prices.

Former Czech president and writer Vaclav Havel described British playwright Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve aged 78, as an "outstanding dramatist whom I have admired since my youth.&quot

Leading British postwar playwright Harold Pinter has died, aged 78, his wife said Thursday.

The Nobel laureate had been ill with cancer.

Leading British postwar playwright Harold Pinter has died, aged 78, his wife said Thursday.

The Nobel laureate had been ill with cancer.

Pope Benedict XVI was to deliver his traditional Christmas Day greeting and Urbi et Orbi message "to the city and to the world" from the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica later Thursday.

A leading Ukraine museum chief has again refused to return paintings to Germany that disappeared at the end of the Second World War and turned up in Ukraine as trophy art, German media reports said We

Berlin's landmark Jewish Museum is proposing an expansion and bidding for a piece of land on the opposite side of the street from its current Daniel Libeskind-designed site, a spokeswoman said Friday.

Bulgarian officials complained how the European Union stole their Christmas when it cancelled hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies because of fraud, but instead of putting thieves in prison, they blamed the global financial crisis.