Reuters – Europe saw little respite on Sunday from the Arctic conditions that have closed airports and disrupted travel on the weekend before Christmas, traditionally one of the busiest times of the year. Read more

Reuters – Taliban insurgents launched attacks in Kabul and a major northern city on Sunday as the 2010 death toll for foreign troops climbed to 700, nearly a third of the total killed in nearly a decade of war. Read more

Reuters – Laurent Gbagbo faced growing confrontation with foreign peacekeepers as the U.N. rejected his demand that they leave Ivory Coast, in the tense aftermath of an election he insists he won and the outside world says he lost. Read more

Reuters – The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency session on Sunday in bid to cool tensions on the Korean peninsula, as bad weather delayed Seoul’s planned firing drill at a disputed border that has enraged Pyongyang. Read more

Reuters – Taliban insurgents launched attacks in Kabul and a major northern city on Sunday as the death toll for foreign troops in Afghanistan hit 700 in 2010, by far the deadliest year of the near decade-long war. Read more