May 24, 1997
MOSCOW, May 23: President Boris Yeltsin named a new defence minister on Friday and said he was determined to press ahead with sharp militar...
May 23, 1997
YANGON, May 22: Undaunted by the arrest of more than 100 of her supporters, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is determined to defy the milit...
May 22, 1997
ISLAMABAD, May 21: Rashid Dostum's northern empire in Afghanistan appeared to be slipping away as rebellious soldiers gained control of thr...
MILAN, MAY 21: One goal down but with its best players back from suspension, Inter is favoured to clinch its third UEFA Cup in six years wh...
LONDON, May 21: Ernest Jones can't forget the day in 1934 when he swiped the cigarette from his father. He was 13, and he got a good whippi...
ROME, May 21: A Leading Argentine human rights group has asked Italy to prosecute the Pope's former envoy to Argentina for his alleged role...
May 21, 1997
CANNES, MAY 20: Ahead of Hong Kong's handover to China, the Cannes film festival named Wong Kar-Wai Best Director for a kind of cinema he f...
May 19, 1997
SPACE CENTRE (HOUSTON), MAY 18: ASTRONAUTS worked to move thousands of pounds of supplies and equipment between Russia’s...
May 18, 1997
STOCKHOLM, May 17: Mats Wilander says he consumed cocaine unknowingly during the 1995 French Open. However, Omats Garle, head of Huddinge H...
May 16, 1997
VIVA ESPANOL...Barcelona players exult after winning the European Cup Winners Cup beating Paris Saint Germaine 1-0 in Rotterdam. ROTTERDA...
May 15, 1997
BRUSSELS, (BELGIUM) May 14: NATO secretary general Javier Solana and Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov, on Wednesday, reached an ag...
May 13, 1997
LONDON, May 12: Mark Taylor SHRUGGED OFF HIS OWN DISMAL BATTING FORM AND announced today his Australian touring team was confident of gaini...
NEW YORK, May 12: The deep blue supercomputer's stunning victory over world chess champion Garry Kasparov ushers in a new era in top-level ...
May 12, 1997
NEW YORK, May 11: The chess match between World Champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer will come down to the final game ...
QAEN, IRAN, May 11: Military aircraft rushed food, clothes and medicine on Sunday to remote mountains in north-eastern Iran, where a powerf...
May 11, 1997
LONDON, May 10: Mercurial midfielder Paul Gascoigne returned to the England fold when he was named to the National squad for upcoming match...
NEW YORK, May 10: As he prepares for two of the most closely watched games of his career, the demonstrative Garry Kasparov is locked in a s...
LAGOS, May 10: A treason trial in which several dissidents could face the death penalty has begun in the absence of many of the defendants....
May 10, 1997
HANOI, May 9: Former prisoner of war Pete Peterson landed at Hanoi's sleepy Noi Bai international airport on Friday to become the first US ...
LISBON, May 9: It was a dream job for a junkie. A dozen workers for a construction company in the northern city of Oporto were paid in hero...
May 9, 1997
Sanchez-Vicario on her way to the third round with victory over Paola Suarez 6-1, 6-2 in the Italian Open. Hamburg, May 8: Felix MANTILLA...
NEW YORK, May 8: World chess champion Garry Kasparov and his silicon nemesis, IBM's Deep Blue computer, remained tied at two points each af...
JERUSALEM, May 8: Swiss banks may not be the only ones holding the missing assets of holocaust victims: Some of the money may be in banks i...
Zairian villagers watch as Hutu refugees are evacuated by train from the Biaro refugee camp, south of Kisangani. BIARO(Zaire), May 7: Sha...
May 8, 1997
American actress Demi Moore waves to photographers as she emerges from a shop in Cannes, where the 50th film festival opens. CANNES: As i...
