2009-08-27

Five people have been killed and 16 others injured after a train rammed into a mechanical digger on a railway line in northwest Turkey. Passengers

Creating the Europe of tomorrow through cultural diversity… a look at the French city of Lyon, which is embracing interculturalism as a model for the

The body of Senator Edward Kennedy has left the family home in Cape Cod. The hearse carrying the coffin of the lion of the Senante will travel the

In Ireland, Europe’s biggest budget airline, Ryanair, has climbed on board the campaign to give the Lisbon Treaty wings. Ryanair Chief Executive

Holidays over, Jose Manuel Barroso sets out to convince enough of the European Parliament’s members to accept his bid for a second five-year term at

Boeing has said the 787 Dreamliner will make its much delayed first test flight by the end of this year and it plans to start delivering aircraft to

Responding to falling sales, Japanese carmaker Nissan is to temporarily lay off 70 percent of the workers at its plants in Barcelona and Montcada in

The price of houses and flats in Britain rose for the fourth month running in August. The latest figures from mortgage lender the Nationwide

Loans to euro zone households and businesses fell in July and hit their slowest annual growth ever. That is despite the European Central Bank’s

The latest survey of German consumer sentiment shows it to be at the highest level in fifteen months. The GfK market research group found that

As many as five people have been killed after a Turkish express train crashed into a construction vehicle en route from Ankara to Istanbul

The international pressure may be mounting on Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze settlements but pressure from within Israel is the reason for his

NATO chief, Denmark’s Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has held talks with Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis. Rasmussen called on Greece to improve its

French Socialist leader Martine Aubry has jumped off the fence and come down in favour of open primary elections for the next presidential candidate

National Health Service nurses in the UK have come under fire for their “cruel” and “demeaning” treatment of some elderly patients. A report by

In Italy, north-east of Rome, a team of Italian and British archeologists have unearthed the remains of a villa which it is believed once belonged to

The new exhibition at the V and A in London is called “Telling Tales: Fear and Fantasy in Contemporary Design” and looks at the darker side of

Ordinary People, a new film from Serbian director Vladimir Perisic, has just been released in France. The movie follows a young army recruit as he

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Berlin for talks with his German counterpart Angela Merkel has pressed the Chancellor to halt trade with

Sergei Mikhalov, the writer of the Soviet Union’s national anthem under Josef Stalin who later reworked the lyrics for a new generation of Russians

Pirates off the Somali coast are getting bolder with this evidence of a patrol helicopter under fire. Marines from the USS Chancellorsville wanted

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Before meeting with Merkel Netanyahu was

The death of US Senator Edward Kennedy has brought the American healthcare issue into sharp focus. President Barack Obama put healthcare at the

The body of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim the leader of Iraq’s largest Shi’ite political grouping begins its journey from Iran to Iraq following his death

The French Socialist Party is to opt for open primaries to select its candidate for the presidential election in 2012. First Secretary Martine

Fifty years of almost unbroken rule seems certain to end with Japan’s main opposition democratic party poised for a landslide election victory this