2011-05-04

Turkey’s Kurdish separatist group the PKK is suspected of having carried out an attack on a Turkish police escort, killing one officer and injuring

Russia is discovering some new heros thanks to YouTube, and the aviation high command has red faces. The sky over one of Moscow’s smaller airports

The International Criminal Court is to seek the arrest of at least three leading Libyan officials after its investigation of the killing of

News of the rapprochement between Fatah and Hamas has not been welcomed by Israel. Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh working together will prove to be

Indonesia and the EU have signed a deal aimed at stopping illegally sourced timber. Destruction of the world’s rain forests, particularly those

The Palestinians’ secular Fatah faction and the Islamist Hamas faction have put a ceremonial seal on a reconciliation agreement between

The unreliability and sheer lack of any hard data concerning the bin Laden raid in Pakistan continues to top the news. The manner of bin Laden’s

The circus movie “Water for Elephants” is continuing to draw audiences around the globe despite its mixed reviews. Set in the 1930’s, the film

Leaders of Portugal’s main opposition party, the Social Democrats, have been meeting with European and IMF officials looking at the details of the

A video has emerged in which the head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn says Greece was secretly negotiating IMF assistance

Japan’s Nissan has won a 10-year contract to be the exclusive supplier of New York’s iconic yellow taxis. It beat Ford and the Turkish manufacturer

Lending to British consumers and homebuyers rose less than expected in March according to figures released by the Bank of England. It was more

Top commodity trader Glencore is looking to a strong debut for this month’s initial public offering of shares planning to raise $11 billion (7.4

In Turkey, one police officer has died after an attack on a bus in the north of the country, near to where Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan had

The greatest casualty of the operation to eliminate Osama bin Laden, apart from the al Qaeda leader himself, may well be the relationship between the

The latest opinion polls suggests that a referendum to change the way members of parliament are elected in the UK is likely to return a ‘no’ result

Europe has Schengen in its sights. Once lauded as one of the EU’s landmark treaties, an influx of migrants from North Africa has changed all that

Europe could give individual states more power to temporarily restore border controls under new plans that were discussed on Wednesday. The

In Gaza, amid some scepticism, many Palestinians showed renewed hope for their future after the unity deal between Hamas and Fatah. Among the Gazans’

Hooligans clashed with police and damaged the stadium after Legia Warsaw won the Polish Cup final 5-4 on penalties against Lech Poznan in Bydgoszcz.

The people of Banias held up bread to symbolically nourish their brothers and sisters in Deraa in their latest protests on Wednesday. The flames of

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal have ended a four-year feud at a reconciliation ceremony in Cairo. The men lead

In partnership with: The stage is set for a major event in the Chinese capital of Beijing as Chinese pianist Yundi Li, a mega star at home and

After the US and Pakistani armies raked over the bin Laden compound it was the stunned residents of Abbottabad’s turn. The world’s media was also

May 5, 1949. The Council of Europe is created with the signing of the Treaty of London by the ten original member states. Today, the Council

Barcelona fans took to the streets of the Catalan capital after watching their team complete a 3-1 aggregate win over rivals Real Madrid in the

As the 2014 World Cup nears, security is a big challenge for Brazil. Authorities in Rio de Janeiro have set up a major operation centre using all the

A lot of worried Portuguese are uncertain what their caretaker prime minister’s reassurances are worth, surrounding the conditions of a 78 billion