British art provocateur Damien Hirst will mount the largest exhibition ever of his trademark fish skeletons, skull paintings and dead animals in a major show in Ukraine’s capital.

Hanita Leshem’s parents handed her over to a Christian family in Ukraine in 1941, when she was just a year old, to save her from the Nazi troops executing that country’s Jews.

It’s down to Ukraine vs. Germany for the UEFA Cup.

Authorities in Arkansas say sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man who walked into a jail wielding a hatchet and knives.

Ukraine’s energy company paid its February bill for Russian gas in full Thursday, officials said, moving swiftly to avoid a cutoff that could have affected deliveries to Europe.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is warning that Russia will cut natural gas to Ukraine if the country doesn’t make payments by Saturday.

After Ukraine’s currency collapsed in the global meltdown, so did Valery Ilyin’s household finances _ and, he fears, his family’s dream of a bigger home.

Ukrainian national security service agents raided the headquarters of the country’s troubled natural gas company Wednesday and began questioning a top accountant and searching for documents, officials said.

A spokesman for Ukraine’s natural gas company says armed men wearing masks have entered the company’s headquarters building in a possible attempt to seize it.

A top Ukrainian businessman says he helped pay a $3.2 million ransom to free 20 sailors who spent over three months held captive by Somali pirates.