Ukraine Health Minister Vasyl Knyazevich has given his country's parliament an account of a massive wave of swine flu that has sickened 255,000. He says 66 adults, 3 children and 2 pregnant women are dead. WHO says 1,100 kids are hospitalized.

Vladimir Putin, the former President of the Russian Federation and current Prime Minister, told the European Union he wants them to help Ukraine pay the gas bill by giving them a loan.

Ukraine residents have begun panic-buying face masks and influenza medicines as the death toll from the country's swine flu epidemic rises dramatically in 24 hours.

As the world enters the H1N1 season, another possible virus emerges as 30 people in the Eastern European country of Ukraine have died from this latest flu.

The Danish government has just approved the building of a pipeline through it's waters which will supply Germany with natural gas directly from Russia. The project has evoked criticism.

Tony Blinken, national security adviser to Vice President Biden, said that leaders in Warsaw, Bucharest and Prague should think less of what the U.S. can do for them and more about what they can do with the United States.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that a resolution passed in the lower house of the Polish parliament, which condemns the Soviet invasion of Eastern Poland in 1939, may set back relations between the two countries.

Training for a huge boxing match is supposed to be all about hard work and sweat. Vitali Klitschko found time to meet and greet when Denzel Washington showed up.

A Filipino woman was found and freed by Israeli police last week in East Jerusalem. She had been kept captive by the family for almost two years. Israeli police made the announcement that they arrested two people in the case on September 13. 2009.

World renowned British singer-songwriter Sir Elton John has revealed that he and his partner David Furnish would like to adopt a 14-month-old boy called Lev that they met when the star was performing at an orphanage in the Ukraine.