2011-07-07

His hands and arms heavily bandaged, Yemen’s President has appeared on television for the first time since an assassination attempt a month

It was meant to be about belt-tightening as Italian ministers faced the press, outlining austerity measures to tackle the huge public debt. But a

Hundreds of people gather to protest in eastern Afghanistan, angered by the deaths of up to 12 civilians in a NATO air strike. Up to two thousand

He has not been seen in public since an assassination attempt on him in June. And the signs of the bomb attack were clear as Yemen’s President spoke

Belgium’s 13 month search for a government goes on after the country’s Flemish separatist party rejected a plan to restart coalition talks. N-

Thursday was a day to remember for Norway’s Edvald Boassen Hagen and Team Sky, both picking up their first-ever stage wins on the Tour de

The New York Stock Exchange has moved a big step closer to being taken over by Germany’s Deutsche Börse. Almost two thirds of NYSE Euronext

It is a bombshell in Britain’s media landscape – the tabloid newspaper “News of the World” is being shut down as a result of a growing phone-hacking

Party leaders in the European Parliament have unanimously backed a new code of conduct for MEPs after a spate of alleged corruption scandals

Press freedom campaigners have staged a protest outside the Georgian Interior Ministry against the arrest of four press photographers. Those

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will close its tabloid “News of the World” after this Sunday’s edition, as a result of an escalating phone-hacking

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet has joined the chorus of criticism of the role of ratings agencies in the global financial

Safe in the arms of the police, 30 children emerged from a nursery school in Malaysia after being held hostage by a man armed with a hammer and a

Police in the UK have arrested a man alleged to have taken part in a terrorist plot to assassinate the King of Spain. Eneko Gogeaskoetxea is wanted

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured unprecedented images of a giant thunderstorm raging on the planet Saturn. Said to be eight times bigger than

Rupert Murdoch may be too big and too powerful to take down, but it may not be the case for some of the newspapers he owns. His News Corporation

Kevin James stars as an amiable zookeeper who is unlucky with the ladies; cue advice on nature’s mating rituals from the zoo’s talking animals.

It was a feather-filled fashion show for Jean-Paul Gaultier. Even when the plumage wasn’t actually on display, the feathers were there on the inside

Rehearsals are underway ahead of the birth of the world’s newest nation. Southern Sudan is expected to declare independence from its northern

At least one person is reported to have been killed and 14 others injured in the partial collapse of the roof of a football stadium in the

From Thailand to Cuba, Brazil to Morocco, sex-tourism is lucrative. Websites hawk erotic escapes while authorities in impoverished lands are tempted

In this edition of U talk our guest answering your questions is from the European Cyclists’ Federation.   “Hi, my name is Dora Pinto and here’s my

This is an important time for the occasionally difficult relationship between big industrial groups and EU consumers.   The stage for the

A lorry driver falls asleep at the wheel, a stark reminder of just how dangerous it is to drive when you are tired. Fatigue is one of the main causes

Shares in the small French biotech firm Innate shot up 70 percent on Thursday after it reached a deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb over a new

As expected, the European Central Bank raised the cost of borrowing on Thursday. Its benchmark interest rate was increased by 0.25 percent to 1.5

ThyssenKrupp’s shares fell on Thursday after it said it will raise as much as 1.7 billion euros by selling shares. The move is seen as a quick

Since the beginning of the conflict in Libya, more than 60,000 Libyans have fled to Tunisia. Normally, the island of Djerba, some 300 kms from the