2005-07-05

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

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

A controversial EU bill to patent software-related innovations stands to fail. Large technology companies say changes sought by the European

Genoa 2001. Evian 2003. Edinburgh 2005. Violence has once again hit the G8 summit. Anarchist protests have broken out in Scotland’s capital ahead

Both sides are predicting victory in Albania even though delays in vote-counting have left the country in suspense after Sunday’s legislative

Germany’s ruling Social Democrats have unanimously approved the party’s programme for the general election campaign. Dubbed ‘trusting in Germany,’

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,”

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

The five biggest European Union states have agreed to fly home illegal immigrants. Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain will share the cost of

Strongly endorsing European integration, Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has had a brush with a trio of ultra-Eurosceptic secessionists. His

Confident of victory, supporters of the opposition celebrated an unconfirmed triumph in Albania’s general election. The Democratic Party faithful

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

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

Bosnian Serb police have discovered what they say were two large primed bombs near the memorial centre for the Srebrenica massacre. Thousands of