2011-06-03

Portuguese leaders made a final plea for votes on Friday ahead of Sunday’s elections as investors fret whether Lisbon can contain its sovereign debt

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been injured after the presidential palace came under attack. The president was in the palace mosque for

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on a visit to Luxembourg got the good news from Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the Eurogroup of finance

To get further insight into the consequences of Portugal’s election, euronews reporter, Michel Santos spoke to journalist and commentator José

This week’s edition of Business Weekly focuses on the growing economic discrepancies between the core and the periphery in Europe. One example is

At least 34 people died after Syrian security forces opened fire on an anti-regime rally in the city of Hama on Friday. Witnesses told Reuters that

Campaigning is over in Portugal’s snap general election as voters ponder where to mark their ballot papers on Sunday in a poll that could end months

The E. coli bacterium is not only taking a human toll. It has also infected international trade. Relations between the EU and Russia were laid low

Germany has set up a national task-force to fight the spread of the E. coli food-poisoning outbreak, stepping up the pace to track down the source of

A teenager in China has sold one of his kidneys so that he could buy an iPad 2.   The 17-year-old student saw an internet ad offering cash to organ

Ratko Mladic, the former head of the Bosnian Serb army, appeared in court for the first time on Friday to face charges of war crimes after 16 years

They started out in the mid to early 1960s. But vintage US rockers ‘The Sonics’ still have what it takes to excite an audience, as they demonstrated

The Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and perhaps most-talked-about festival of modern art, is getting underway. Every two years, more than

It is a classic spine-chilling story, told in the most modern of ways. Using the latest animation technology, cartoon feature ‘Hyde’ adapts Robert

At least 28 000 people were evacuated from their homes on Friday as fires raged around a military weapons depot in Russia. Tonnes of artillery

The pace of hiring in the US weakened dramatically in May, hit by high energy prices and the Japanese earthquake hurting US manufacturers. The

Yemen’s opposition TV claims that President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed following an attack on the presidential palace in the capital

Inflation in Turkey hit 7.2 percent in May compared to the same month last year. That was the highest rate in nearly a decade and much worse than

The US Treasury Department has reached an agreement to sell its remaining six percent of shares in Chrysler to Italy’s Fiat. Fiat is paying 386

China’s statistics office has said it is investigating one official in a probe into the leaking of economic information. Media reports say other

Technology is increasingly playing a role in the classroom. Our first example is in the United States. We are also visiting Estonia and South Korea

The opening of the Mladic trial proved a powerful draw for members of all communities back in the former Yugoslavia. In the Serbian capital

As Ratko Mladic made his first appearance at The Hague war crimes tribunal the women of Srebrenica gathered at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial to

In the space of a week, Serbian President (since 2004) Boris Tadic announced the arrest of Europe’s most wanted war crimes indictee, former Bosnian

An oil refinery explosion and fire in southwestern Wales has left four contractors dead and a worker seriously injured. An investigation is

Alan Shadrake, a British author, has begun a six week prison sentence in Singapore after a court there rejected his appeal.   Shadrake was convicted

German scientists are under growing pressure to isolate the source of a rare E.coli strain believed to be the cause of a food poisoning outbreak that

Ratko Mladic has made his first appearance before a UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The former military commander of the Bosnian Serbs has said

Election day in Rovigo, in eastern Italy (filmed by Andrea)