2012-01-10

A probe in France has overturned 16 years of pointing the finger of blame at Rwanda’s Tutsi rebels for killing the former president in 1994 and

It is New Hampshire primary day but professional candidate-watchers already have their eyes on the next electoral rendezvous – South Carolina. It

Cyril Despres regained control of the Dakar rally on Tuesday following his stage 9 triumph from Antofagasta to Iquique. With his third stage win

Since the overthrow and death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, sport, of which certain disciplines were banned in the country, is making a

Christine Largarde’s European tour this week comes as the eurozone crisis heats up again and with the International Monetary Fund crucial to saving

The new year started with the United States tightening its economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme. Additional financial curbs

Why wait decades for your talent to be recognised? One young artist in Poland wanted his work displayed now. So he added one of his paintings to

Veteran political journalist Cokie Roberts shared her insight on the US primary process with euronews, interviewed by satellite link, from the

President Bashar al-Assad has dismissed all suggestions he give up power, as bloody upheaval in Syria continues. In a speech at Damascus University

The British government has given the go ahead for a high-speed rail network initially linking London and Birmingham and later cities further

As organisers celebrated the 200 day countdown to the start of this summer’s London Olympics, protesters were calling for Dow Chemical to be dropped

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s speech was watched closely beyond the country’s borders. In Turkey, prominent Syrian dissident and former judge

Polls continue to indicate a lead for Republican presidential candidate hopeful Mitt Romney as voting in the New Hampshire primary takes place on

A junior minister in Italy’s government of technocrats, Carlo Malinconico, has resigned over allegations he was favoured with free hotel stays in

A court in Copenhagen has fined a Kurdish-language TV based there 400,000 euros for making propaganda for a terrorist organisation. The Danes say

Israel’s Peace Now movement has accused the government of Benjamin Netanyahu of overseeing a record year in settlement building on West Bank land

January 11, 1964 Surgeon General of the United States, Luther Terry, publishes a report on the adverse health effects of smoking. While not the first

A shake-up in mobile phone services in France as Xavier Niel, the billionaire founder of broadband provider Iliad, launched its long-awaited mobile

China’s exports and imports grew at their slowest pace in more than two years in December as foreign and domestic demand declined. The biggest

Olympus is suing its current president and 18 other executives, past and present, for 37 million euros in compensation over a massive accounting

It is day two of a general strike in Nigeria called by unions to protest against the scrapping of petrol subsidies. Lagos’ multi-lane motorways are

In the red half of Manchester, Eric Cantona is already known as ‘the King’. Now King Eric has his eye on the Elysée Palace, the official residence

In Poland work has begun on digitalising some of the classic films of the silent movie era and making them available on the internet.

For centuries angels have captured artists’ imaginations and can be found in Christian, Jewish and Islamic art. A new exhibition at the Israel Museum

In the Australian state of Tasmania, the native eagles are under threat because intensive logging is destroying their natural habitat.

The reality of Haiti two years on after the cameras have gone. Hundreds of thousands of people remain in camps with no education, no work and little

Bosnia’s National Museum in Sarajevo is almost a miracle in itself, outlasting the Habsburg empire, and emerging bloodied but unbowed from two World

The death toll has risen to at least 35 after a bombing near a busy market-place in Jamrud in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber region. Seventy more

An amnesty for political prisoners in North Korea has been announced – though the exact number of how many people will be freed remains unclear

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday that his government is the victim of a foreign plot, backed by the West to destabilise the country