January 6, 2014 - 8:16AM Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been given a three-month Swiss visa and travelled there with his wife to bring their sons back to school. JUBA - Rebels in South Sudan say they have killed an army general during fighting near the town of Bor, a claim immediately denied by the government, as both sides are set to begin formal peace talks. VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will make his first trip to the Holy Land, visiting Amman, Bethlehem and Jerusalem in May. NEW YORK - Millions of people in the US are hunkering down in anticipation of brutal weather from a dangerous Arctic blast that forecasters warn could send freezing temperatures plummeting to record lows. DHAKA - Thousands of protesters have firebombed polling stations and at least 18 people have been killed as Bangladesh's ruling Awami League cruised to victory in an election boycotted by the opposition. NEW DELHI, Jan 5 DPA - The death toll in a building collapse in India's southern state of Goa has risen to 15, as rescuers raced against the clock to save up to 20 people feared trapped beneath the debris. TEL AVIV - Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon is facing "imminent" death, the director at the Tel Aviv hospital where he is in critical condition says. PARIS - Geologists have reported insights into super-volcanoes, the brooding, enigmatic giants of Earth's crust whose eruptions are as catastrophic as they are rare.