August marks the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa's birth and few will be prouder than the citizens of her birthplace Skopje.
CNN's Nic Robertson discovers an ancient city of hundreds of churches and monastries.
CNN's Anna Coren meets a boy from Skopje, Macedonia, who is very unlike other children of his age.
A colorful mural runs along the outside the Blaze Koneski public school in Macedonia, but it's been vandalized by graffiti artists who spray their tags all over the school.
Housing over a quarter of the country's population, Skopje is Macedonia's largest and most diverse city. With a long history marked by Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman rule, the region boasts a wealth of ancient sites and intriguing relics.
CNN's Nic Robertson interviews the prime minister of Macedonia about the future of that country.
Macedonia's prime minister has said the country is seeking a compromise with Greece over the long-standing name dispute between both countries.
Jordan Trajkov was a successful banker studying for an MBA when he visited Napa Valley in California.
CNN's Nic Robertson mets a Macedonian businessman who returns to wine making with a new idea.
Macedonia is a small mountainous, landlocked country bordering Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo and Serbia.
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When I found the first piece of fuselage, I was shocked. It was flimsy, the thin metal easily twisted back on itself.
Broken trees and twisted metal mark the site where a Polish plane crashed in Russia. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
"By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world."
At least 15 people are dead after a tourist boat sunk in a lake in southwest Macedonia on Saturday morning, a government spokesman told CNN.
Sunday's presidential election in Macedonia was free of the violence which marred last year's parliamentary vote in the former Yugoslav republic, election observers said on Monday.
A "crisis summit" for NATO, many called it before the leaders met in Bucharest. So how was it on the night? Who were the winners and losers? The key figures were two last year presidents who won't be at the next meeting, Russia's Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush.
NATO decides not to put Georgia and Ukraine on track to join the alliance, but pledged that they will join one day
France has agreed to send a battalion of troops to eastern Afghanistan, a NATO spokesman has said.
President Bush shakes hands with dignitaries upon his arrival at the NATO dinner in Bucharest, Romania.
Rene Obermann describes his first 15 months as Deutsche Telekom CEO.
CNN's Kiran Chetry talks to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton about her recent wins in Texas and Ohio.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, fresh off crucial wins in Tuesday's primaries, has been playing the experience card heavily, particularly in regard to her role in foreign policy.
NATO's secretary-general said Monday that Macedonia's hope of joining the military alliance could be dashed if it fails to settle a 17-year-old name spat with Greece, a long-time NATO member.
Now Kosovo has broken off from Serbia. A confused follower of world events asks: Are we really better off minting smaller and smaller nations?
"Compassionate conservative" Kostas Karamanlis narrowly won reelection, but his shrunken majority could leave his party vulnerable
Arrest warrants have been issued for 13 suspected CIA agents in connection with the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen of Lebanese descent in Afghanistan.
I am from Harare, Zimbabwe. I saw an article in the newspaper about MineTech getting a contract to work in Mozambique. I applied and passed the selection course, and was trained in Harare. That was...
Germany's foreign minister told parliament Wednesday the government had no prior knowledge of the CIA detention of a Lebanese German and was still awaiting answers from Washington on the matter. And he voiced concern the CIA flights of terror suspects via Europe could damage transatlantic relations.
Europe's top health officials met Thursday to discuss ways to thwart the spread of bird flu as the deadly H5N1 virus that has now hit the continent reared its head again in east and Southeast Asia.
Samples from a dead bird have been sent to London for testing after a large number of birds died in the Macedonian city of Bitola near the border with Greece, a member of Macedonia's parliament said.
Two Macedonian construction workers kidnapped south of Baghdad have been beheaded, and the group claiming responsibility accused the men of working as spies for U.S. forces in Iraq, the Arab television network Al-Jazeera has reported.
Government leaders and heads of state have been paying their last respects to Macedonia's late president, Boris Trajkovski, who died last week in a plane crash.
Macedonia's leadership is considering how and when to organize a vote to elect a new head of state after President Boris Trajkovski was killed in a plane crash.
Rescuers have recovered the body of Macedonia's president and eight others killed in a plane crash in a remote and mountainous region of Bosnia, a NATO spokesman has said.
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, who has died in a plane crash, was a moderate credited for helping to unite his ethnically divided country amid the bubbling, often bloody politics of the Balkans.
Ordinary Macedonians and European leaders have described their shock at the death of President Boris Trajkovski in a plane crash in Bosnia.
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, a moderate credited for helping to unite his ethnically divided country, is feared to have been killed in a plane crash in southeastern Bosnia.
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