Human rights are at risk as austerity bites in Portugal, the Council of Europe is claiming. It fears a return to child labour with youngsters

There has been international condemnation of the Syrian attacks. The US said indiscriminate killing could not be justified. Peace envoy Kofi Annan

Bankia continued its descent into hell on Thursday in Madrid, despite partial nationalisation. The share price of Spain’s fourth biggest bank was

President Obama’s backing for same-sex marriage has brought impassioned and predictable responses. Conservative Christians called it “saddening”

Trying to draw a line under a four-year banking crisis, the Spanish government has effectively taken over Bankia, one of the country’s biggest

French president-elect Francois Hollande has been meeting Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker in Paris. It comes a day after he came face-to-face

Hoping to succeed where his opponents have failed, Socialist Evangelos Venizelos has launched Greece’s third bid to form a coalition

Thousands of off-duty police officers have taken to the streets of London in a rare protest against austerity measures. They rallied against budget

The art of politics has never been easy, but in Brussels it seems to be very thirsty work. That is because last year the European Parliament used

Standing 25 metres high, the Marine Worlds Carousel is part of an unprecedented artistic project in Nantes. But its magic is not yet

Young photographer Asef Ali Mohammad received his Sony World Photography Award at a ceremony in London for a series of images he captured of

Director Morgan Spurlock’s comedy documentary ‘Mansome’ questions the strength of man in an age of metrosexuals, while exploring male grooming habits

Gay marriage is a big subject to raise in the six months before the American people vote on who will lead the country. Barack Obama is the first

Over 80 percent of all refugees and migrants into the European Union cross at the Turkish-Greek border. While Greece finds it difficult to cope with

The European Union’s policy towards Gaza and the Palestinian Authority’s attitude to the conflict in Syria are just two of the topics raised in an

Relatives of those onboard a doomed Russian passenger jet that crashed in Indonesia have been told there are no signs of life at the scene. The

From July, mobile phone charges for EU citizens when travelling inside the bloc will become cheaper. The cuts agreed by MEPs reduce once more the gap

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is resisting calls for a relaxation of the austerity drive she has prescribed as a remedy for the eurozone debt

The number of people out of work in Greece has hit a new record. The unemployment rate was 21.7 percent of the workforce in February and in the

Mangled, smouldering cars, a huge crater three metres deep in a highway which was main artery around the south of the city and a fragile ceasefire

Officials have confirmed at least 55 people have been killed and more than 372 wounded in two blasts which rocked the Syrian capital of

Algerians are electing a new parliament that officials say will bring democracy to a country largely unaffected by the ‘Arab Spring’ revolutions in

The final countdown is on to the London 2012 Olympic Games. The flame that will burn at the main stadium has been lit during a traditional ceremony

Global warming is having a serious impact on the earth’s water cycle. The water cycle is the continuous movement of water on, above and below the

The crash of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 while on a demonstrator flight in Indonesia has dealt a major blow to Russia’s attempts to build up its civil

Sony has announced a record loss of 4.4 billion euros in the year just ended, but is predicting a return to profit in the current financial

There was some good news for Spanish energy group Repsol as its quarterly profit came in better than expected. That eased concerns about its