2010-06-30

Polish television audiences sat down to watch the second presidential debate on Wednesday night, which appears to have confirmed Bronislaw

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has survived a confidence vote after lawmakers narrowly backed her preferred candidate to be the country’s next

It is an undoubted setback for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her candidate for the presidency, Christian Wulff, may have won – but he failed

Attack budget rule-breakers where it hurts the most: their wallets. Under proposals by the European Commission, European Union governments would lose

EU lawmaker have agreed that from early next year the region’s bankers will not be allowed to take more than a third of those bonuses in cash. The

The World Trade Organisation has ruled some European governments paid planemaker Airbus prohibited export subsidies. The WTO – responding to

Germany’s unemployment fell again in June, for the 12th straight month. The unadjusted jobless rate dropped to 7.5 percent of the working

The French Budget Minister Francois Baroin has presented plans for an additional 10 billion euros in savings over three years on top of 100 billion

British music, DVD, games and books retailer HMV has just announced full year profit that was up 11 percent. The group, which runs over 400 stores

Saying that it is a strategic holding, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates has blocked the sale of Portugal Telecom’s stake in the Brazilian

Turkey’s GDP grew by an unexpectedly strong 11.7 percent year-on-year in the first three months of this year. However that was because the economy

The Democratic Republic of Congo is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence from Belgium today. Congolese President Joseph Kabila

Outgoing French football coach Raymond Domenech was given a grilling in parliament, but failed to take responsibility for his team’s chaotic World

The hurricane season has officially begun in the Gulf of Mexico and coastal residents are bracing themselves for the worst as Hurricane Alex moves

Six-times Wimbledon champion Roger Federer has been knocked out at the quarter-final stage of the 2010 edition by Czech Tomas Berdych. Federer was

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for US documentary at this year’s Sundance Festival, Afghanistan war film Restrepo goes on general release in America

In congested, polluted central London they are researching the possibilities of making biofuels from trees. They hope that soon, the poplar will

Paris Fashion Week has now finished and the designers have spoken. Euronews takes a look at some of the main trends for next summer.

Believe it or not this house is made from coffee waste. Generally coffee grounds are thrown away but in Colombia a group of scientists, business

Washington and Moscow are playing down the Cold War thriller aspect of their latest spying row, insisting it will not harm warming

With last weeks International Whaling Commission (IWC) talks on replacing a moratorium on whaling with a controlled cull breaking down, the Icelandic

Violence erupts in Bangladesh as textile workers in the capital Dhaka demand payment of their overdue salaries.

One of the largest NATO bases in Afghanistan has been attacked by the Taliban. Alliance military leaders say troops repulsed a commando-style raid

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has been dealt a blow after the federal assembly failed to elect her conservative candidate as the country’s

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the candidates in the country’s presidential election attended a church service in Berlin on Wednesday morning

NATO military leaders say troops have repulsed a commando style-attack by Taliban insurgents on one of the alliance’s largest bases in eastern

The Italian government has gone to the European Court of Human Rights to try to overturn a ban on crucifixes being displayed in its state-run

Jerry Percy, fisherman “I don’t understand the scientific aspects, but I know that over the last 20 or so years that I’ve been involved in the sea on

Spanish football fans celebrated in Madrid on Tuesday their national team’s victory over Portugal, giving the European champions a spot in the World

Paraguay Fans watched their team’s qualification to the World Cup quaterfinals on a big screen in Asuncion. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, wide of Japanese