2010-07-01

At least 35 people have been killed in a triple suicide blast in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore. The three bombers struck as worshippers

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will release 1,000 Palestinian prisioners if Hamas frees an Israeli soldier taken hostage four

Reducing poverty, child mortality, fighting disease, boosting development… are UN countries on track to reach the targets they set out to achieve by

The indignity for someone described as Europe’s richest woman is that a French court wants to know: is she in control of her mental

Here are a few bonus excerpts from our interview with conductor Valery Gergiev, in which he talks about Vladimir Putin.

A political row has erupted in Israel after secret fence-mending talks were held with Turkey in the wake of the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid

We find more and more Eco labels in stores, but not all of them are telling the whole truth. The European ecolabel on the other hand offers consumers

A half-Scottish politician has made history today, becoming the first person with dual nationality to become premier of a German state. David

Anna Chapman, or Anya Kushchenko is the most prominent of the 10 suspected Russian spies arrested in America who go before a judge today to find out

Sweden’s central bank raised the cost of borrowing there on Thursday, for the first time since the financial crisis started two years ago. Saying

Manufacturing in the euro zone slowed slightly in June. The growth rate was the weakest in four months and Markit’s survey of purchasing managers

Prices are on the rise again in Greece. The latest tax hike on consumer goods and services has came into effect on Thursday. The increase

German retail sales posted their first monthly rise in three months in May. They were up 0.4 percent from April. That boosted hopes that consumer

Belgium’s turn holding the rotating presidency of the European Union for six months has begun, taking over from Spain. It aims to tackle financial

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is willing to release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for army soldier Gilad Shalit

In Talk Planet we hear about climate change from those who are witnessing its effects first hand. Our interviewees might not be climate scientists

As the globe warms up, Talk Planet hears how millions of people are coping with the change. Those who rely on the oceans, the mountains and lowland

Here are some more thoughts from fisherman Jerry Percy

Floods and torrential rain in Romania have killed 24 people, forced 7,000 to be evacuated from homes and damaged farmlands and infrastructure in the

Spanish artist Antoni Miralda is the subject of a retrospective at the Palacio Velazquez in Madrid. And in Lisbon a design exhibition called

Doctors in Iran believe they have discovered a blood test which can accurately predict when a woman will reach the menopause.

Joachim, played by Mathieu Amalric, is a top TV producer in France but he jacks it all in to go to America. There he meets a troupe of Burlesque

The trial of a celebrity photographer accused of defrauding France’s richest woman has been postponed after the emergence of secret tapes recorded by

Top US general and the new commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan David Petraeus has visited NATO headquarters in Brussels to outline his new

Is the end in sight for Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel? That is the almost unanimous verdict in today’s press following her massive struggle to

Hurricane Alex made landfall on Mexico’s Gulf coast on Wednesday as a powerful Category 2 storm, spawning tornadoes in nearby Texas, forcing

Paraguayan and Spanish Football National teams trains ahead the quarter-final match on Friday.

He was accused of looking too waxy during the election campaign and now Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has come to life in wax. His wife

The Brazilian national football team has arrived at the Protea hotel Marine in Port Elizabeth’s waterfront, ahead of their World Cup match against

A pioneering bid to fly a solar powered-plane through the night has been postponed because of a technical hitch. The experimental aircraft was to