2010-07-29

Swiss-born German TV weatherman, Joerg Kachelmann, has been released from police custody while awaiting trial for the alleged aggravated rape of an

The scandal engulfing the French L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt has moved closer to the government of Nicolas Sarkozy. The French Labour

Members of the Hispanic community celebrated in front of the Arizona state capitol building after a judge blocked key parts of a law cracking-down on

A hijack drama abord a Russian passenger plane has ended safely after a daring intervention by elite troops. According to authorities a 40-year-old

French first lady Carla Bruni has been filming scenes for a new Woody Allen movie called “Midnight in Paris”. The wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy

A French woman has confessed to killing her eight new-born children and hiding their bodies in northern France. The mother of two has been named

There are no official figures but anecdotal evidence is that thousands of illegal immigrants have fled the US state of Arizona ahead of a

German protesters are demanding the resignation of the mayor of Duisberg, where 21 people died in a stampede at last weekend’s Love

There have been clashes between Greek police and truck drivers in Athens during the fourth day of a nationwide strike. The government has ordered

Britain has announced plans to end the fixed retirement age next year, saying it wanted to give people the chance to work beyond the age of

Italy is the latest European country to approve austerity measures. The lower house of parliament has voted through 25 billion euros worth of cuts

This month, In the eurozone, confidence in the economic outlook has risen to its highest level in more than two years. An index of executive and

Transatlantic partners are investing in projects which are bearing fruit in Europe and the United States. Europeans takes you this week to both

As it has done since 1920, the Salzburg Festival opened with the premiere of Jedermann, an adaptation of the 15th century English morality play

An exhibition of antique scooters has just opened at the Museum of Design and Fashion in Lisbon.

Hollywood rolled out the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of Get Low, starring veterans Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek.

Despite all the oil exploitation that goes on around the world, there are still no really reliable ways to collect and clean up deep water oil spills.

A group of masked men have attacked a government building in the outskirts of Moscow in protest at plans to build a highway through a local

David Cameron visited one of the venues of the Commonwealth Games 2010, the Major Dhyanchand National Stadium in New Delhi, in India.

A French woman has been charged with the murder of eight newborn babies after reportedly admitting the crime to police. The 47 year old mother of

Emergency workers have discovered that more than 7,000 chemical buckets were washed into the Songhua River in northeast China’s Jilin Province

Ariel Sigler, released on June 12 after seven years in prison on a Caribbean island, was greeted by a crowd of supporters when he arrived on a

Some 138 people died when an overloaded boat carrying passengers and goods capsized in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, police said on

Relatives of victims of Pakistan’s deadliest plane crash continued to gather outside the Pakistan Institute of Medical Science (PIMS) Hospital in

German protesters are demanding the resignation of the mayor of Duisburg, where 21 people died in a stampede at last weekend’s Love

The Afghan president has joined the US in condemning the website Wikileaks over what appears to have been the release of names of

French Labour Minister Eric Woerth is being questioned by police as part of an investigation into allegations that the country’s richest woman dodged

Protesters hang from downtown crane to send message about Arizona’s immigration law.

Amateur video of an Alaskan fisherman’s efforts to help a mother bear free her cub from an oversized net. The black bear cub became entangled in a

Flooding in the northeastern Chinese city of Jilin have washed thousands of containers of explosive chemicals into the Songhua River. Water