2011-10-07

Rating agency Fitch’s move to downgrade Italian and Spanish debt has brought more pressure to bear on Europe’s southern economies. Analysts say

Ten years after the US-led military invasion of Afghanistan, and all sides are assessing what has been achieved. Many Afghans blame the allies

Mourners have gathered to mark the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya. The journalist, who was a well known critic of

Meet Vitaliy Klychko, world heavy weight boxing champion and aspiring politician. He and his brother Volodymyr dominate their sport and currently

Can there be any other match in rugby union that so quickens the pulse, France against England? Will it be Gallic flair and fortitude from a side

Being a reporter is no longer just an ‘interesting job’. Journalists sometimes pay a very high price for telling people the truth. Over the last

This year’s Nobel peace prize has been shared between three women for ‘their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights in

In what appear to be comments made for a domestic audience in an election year, the French president has managed to annoy both Turkey and Russia in

The troubled European banking sector moved to the center of attention of the debt crisis this past week, as the French-Belgian Dexia group is on the

Five years after Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered, the picture is far from complete. It is understood that she was killed for her

The European debt crisis continues to bite — late on Friday the Fitch agency downgraded Italy’s sovereign credit rating to A+, it was the first such

In what is being seen as a warning to European governments to better support the region’s weakened banks, the debt rating agencies have slashed their

After Steve Jobs succumbed to cancer, just weeks after handing over the reins of Apple, homage to the super innovator poured in. Swiss French

Keeping his famous promise of ‘I’ll be back’ Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to his home town of Thal in Austria on Friday. Surrounded by hundreds

Campaigning in Poland’s General Election has ended, with Saturday to cool off before nerves crank up again on Sunday polling day. The prime

Heavy fighting continues in Colonel Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte, after the new Libyan government forces launched their largest assault so

Syrian activists claimed government forces have killed at least seven anti-government demonstrators in protests after Friday prayers. The Syrian

The credit rating of a dozen UK banks has been cut by Moody’s. It based that on the likelihood of less state support in a future crisis. Royal

There seemed to be confusion over the state of the Greek bailout talks on Friday. Inspectors from the so called troika – the European Union, the

The launch date has been announced for the first private passenger rail service in France competing with the state owned SNCF. An Italian and

There was mixed jobs news from the US on Friday. The number of people in work grew more than expected in September and job gains for the prior months

Street protests have continued in Athens as the German Economy Minister, Philipp Rösler, arrived with 60 businessmen and women to discuss investment

British actor Paddy Considine’s directorial debut – the gritty Midlands-set drama Tyrannosaur – has just opened in the UK. It expands on his 2007

Young British singer-songwriter Jessie J stole the show at the MOBO Awards, held in Glasgow, with four prizes, including Best UK Act and Best Album

October 10, 1957. The finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah stops to buy orange juice in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware, USA but is

A worker at the ill-fated Fukushima nuclear plant has died. The death of the 56-year-old man is the third at the plant since three of the reactors

U2 singer Bono sings during a mass held on the occasion of Desmond Tutu’s 80th birthday in Cape Town, South Africa.

Police in Moscow moved to break up opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the eve of his 59th birthday. They were there to remember a former

This Sunday Poland will hold elections for its two houses of parliament. It is a dual between the two main parties: Civic Platform and Law and

Students and high-school pupils have walked out of their classrooms and onto the streets to denounce cuts to education spending in debt-burdened