The office of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych says a court has annulled a decree to posthumously decorate a nationalist leader whose insurgent army supported Nazi Germany for part of World War II.

Top US architect Daniel Libeskind is to design the starting-off point for a planned bridge connecting mainland Italy to Sicily across the Strait of Messina.

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security memo reportedly notes that Gabriel Giffords is Jewish in describing the motives of the Arizona congresswoman's alleged assailant.