Last-minute campaigning before 2012 Olympics vote The French President has arrived in Singapore to support Paris’ bid to host the 2012 Olympic games. The winning venue is due to be announced tomorrow 05/07/2005
Checkpoint Charlie monument becomes history There were protests in Germany as a monument became just a memory The demonstration was against the destruction of a rebuilt section of the Berlin 05/07/2005
Patenting bill on brink of failure - EP sources A controversial EU bill to patent software-related innovations stands to fail. Large technology companies say changes sought by the European 05/07/2005
Violence rocks Edinburgh ahead of G8 Genoa 2001. Evian 2003. Edinburgh 2005. Violence has once again hit the G8 summit. Anarchist protests have broken out in Scotland’s capital ahead 05/07/2005
Observers say Albanian election 'partially' met international standards Both sides are predicting victory in Albania even though delays in vote-counting have left the country in suspense after Sunday’s legislative 05/07/2005
German SPD approves programme for election Germany’s ruling Social Democrats have unanimously approved the party’s programme for the general election campaign. Dubbed ‘trusting in Germany,’ 05/07/2005
NASA elation at Deep Impact success NASA is on a high after the success of the Deep Impact mission. “Our experiment went very, very well. We touched a comet and we touched it hard,” 05/07/2005
Hamas declines offer to join Abbas's cabinet The Islamic militant group Hamas has rejected an invitation to join the Palestinian cabinet. It is a snub to President Mahmoud Abbas, who wants a 05/07/2005
G5 cost-share in illegal immigration crackdown The five biggest European Union states have agreed to fly home illegal immigrants. Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain will share the cost of 05/07/2005
Italy's Ciampi heckled by Northern Leaguers in European Parliament Strongly endorsing European integration, Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has had a brush with a trio of ultra-Eurosceptic secessionists. His 05/07/2005
Albanian opposition projected to win election Confident of victory, supporters of the opposition celebrated an unconfirmed triumph in Albania’s general election. The Democratic Party faithful 05/07/2005
Euro hits new 14-month low against the dollar The euro fell to its lowest level in well over a year against the dollar on Tuesday. At one stage it was as low as $1.1869, that was its weakest 05/07/2005
German teen accused of creating computer virus in court A teenager has gone on trial in Germany accused of creating a computer virus last year that caused havoc around the world. Sven Jaschan entered the 05/07/2005
Bombs found near Srebrenica memorial Bosnian Serb police have discovered what they say were two large primed bombs near the memorial centre for the Srebrenica massacre. Thousands of 05/07/2005