Opposition groups in Syria are urging even more protesters to take to the streets on Friday after the agreement of a deal with the Arab League failed

UNESCO’s decision to grant the Palestinians full membership has prompted Israel to freeze its funding to the UN’s cultural agency. The Israelis say

French President Nicolas Sarkozy had hoped the G20 summit in Cannes would be one of the crowning moments of his five years running France. He had

The European Central Bank has unexpectedly cut interest rates in President Mario Draghi’s first meeting in charge. With bond yields in Italy and

George Papandreou says he will scrap a referendum on Greece’s latest bailout deal, if the conservative opposition agrees to back the plan in

Thursday sees the official start of campaigning for Spain’s general election later this month against a background of chronic unemployment and an

For over a decade, the Democratic Republic of Congo had been ravaged by what many refer to as Africa’s first world war. The fighting was concentrated

US President Barack Obama is at the G20 summit encourage the eurozone to find a solution to its debt problem, which could send America’s weakened

While George Papandreou’s gamble to hold a referendum on the country’s EU bailout deal seems to have spectacularly backfired, the final outcome is

The vast economic power of China is increasingly under European scrutiny, with an undercurrent of assumption that Beijing will find it in its own

30 students from different countries around the world are participating for the first time in the debates, workshops and sessions at the WISE Summit

Ukrainian protesters symbolically stuck pumpkins on the gates outside their parliament to show their refusal of new austerity measures. The fruit is

Kelly Slater – the king of surf – has been crowned World Champion for an unprecedented eleventh time at the age of 39. Aficionados of the sport are

Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt, along with team mates Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir and their agent Mazhar Majeed have been

Syrian security forces are reported to have killed five people in Homs, the day after the government agreed to an Arab League plan to pull the army

Kristin Scott Thomas was at the Rome Film Festival for the premiere of her latest film, The Woman in the Fifth. It is about an American writer

To mark the 20th anniversary of their pivotal album Achtung Baby, U2 are releasing a special edition with B-sides, demos, remixes and some unreleased

Tehran has stepped up its attacks on the United States, amid speculation that Washington may accelerate plans for missile strikes against Iran’s

It is an eternal question – do children really benefit from learning at a very early age? Head, heart and hand, India Avnika Menon goes to

The Greek debt crisis may steal the show at the G20 summit but anti-capitalist protest voices are getting louder on the sidelines. Thousands of

Well, they say a new broom sweeps clean. In his first meeting as boss of the ECB Mario Draghi has surprised nearly everyone by cutting base interest

Earnings at BNP Paribas fell 72% in the third quarter after the French bank took a bigger-than-expected hit of two billion euros on Greek debt. The

Greece has enough cash to last until mid-December, a government source says. But will George Papandreou still be in power then, or even by the end

The internet has made our lives easier, whether it is shopping online for groceries, making a payment or booking a holiday. However, surf carelessly

Solving Europe’s financial crisis is the most important task facing G20 leaders meeting in Cannes, according to Barack Obama. Like his French

Arriving at the Cannes summit with nothing concrete to show his euro zone partners, Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi is under increasing pressure. An

China has successfully carried out its first docking exercise between two unmanned spacecraft.The Shenzhou-8 joined the Tiangong-1space lab module

The Greek government may be on the verge of collapse over the issue of holding a referendum, but some in Athens fear Greece has no choice other than

November 4, 1922. A member of an excavation team led by British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the steps that lead to the ancient tomb of