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Spain's Bankia seeks 19 billion euros in state aid

Spain’s Bankia group asked the government for a 19 billion euro bailout on Friday. The lender was nationalised earlier this month. Madrid now owns a 45 per cent stake. Bankia is struggling to plug a hole in its…

Spain acts to clean-up banks after downgrade

Egypt election: Divisive run-off fight ahead

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has begun courting some of the candidates knocked out during this…

Butler to Pope Benedict arrested in leaks scandal

Pope Benedict the sixteenth’s butler has been arrested following a scandal that has been…

70 killed in latest Syria violence

At least 70 people have been killed during the latest unrest in Syria, according to a London-based monitoring group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says as many as 50 people died…

Launch of Scotland independence campaign

Supporters of Scottish independence from the UK officially kicked off their campaign on Friday in Scotland’s capital Edinburgh. It will be another two and a half years before the…