2012-05-28

Ukraine’s main opposition parties have unveiled more details on their joint reform programme. Front of Change leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk and former

Video has emerged of French journalist Romeo Langlois, who is being held by FARC rebels in Colombia. The drug-funded group has announced that it

A fire at an upmarket shopping centre in Doha, Qatar, on Monday killed at least 19 people, including 13 children. Four teachers and two

Having gone from regular underachievers to clear favourites, Spain will once again be the team to beat when the European Championships kick off in

Italy’s football team, notably subdued following yet another match-fixing scandal, left their training ground at Coverciano on Monday to head for a

Some of the countries that are struggling most with the eurozone debt crisis – Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy – now find themselves also facing an

Outgoing Serbian president Boris Tadic looks to become the country’s next prime minister. Tadic lost his bid for re-election to conservative

An Islamist and a former prime minister are through to the run-off of Egypt’s landmark presidential elections. Official results announced on Monday

Greek journalists staged a 24-hour strike on Monday. The walkout stopped all TV and radio broadcasts and halted updates on many internet news

Newly nationalised Bankia saw its share price plunge after asking for an additional 19 billion euros in state aid. With investors doubting the

The men and women of the international media who regularly cover the Cannes Film Festival backed the jury’s choice of “Love” for best picture, but

Kofi Annan flew to Damascus to appeal to President Bashar al Assad and try to rescue his faltering peace plan. The UN and Arab league envoy has

The transfer of Saif Gaddafi to the interim government in Tripoli has been delayed again owing to a disagreement over money. The Zintan rebels who

The Kenyan capital of Nairobi has been hit by a large explosion, wounding at least 30 people. There were conflicting reports as to what caused the

Ali Larijani has been re-elected as speaker of Iran’s parliament. The 55-year-old is a fierce critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Seen as a

The Syrian government says it had no hand in the Houla atrocity, blaming terrorists. The head of the UN Mission in Syria named no culprit. Western

An Islamist will take on a former prime minister in Egypt’s presidential election run-off, according to state news agency reports. With all appeals

Austrian director Michael Haneke won this year’s Palme d’Or at The Cannes Film Festival with “Amour”, which tells the tale of an elderly couple

The Spanish government’s reported plan for rescuing the country’s fourth-largest lender Bankia unsettled the financial markets on Monday. Sources

The Vatican has denied Italian press reports that a cardinal is being suspected of leaking confidential documents to the media. The documents

When Loreen, Sweden’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, broke all records during the selection stages, it is fair to say hopes were high – and

The UN has evidence that rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being supported and trained by Rwanda, according to a report in the British

For this edition of Russian Life, euronews travels to the Kaliningrad exclave. Isolated from the rest of the country, it is the smallest, youngest

Six new opinion polls all hand Greece’s pro-bailout parties victory in next month’s general election. The results from those voter surveys

Mikhail Fridman, the head of TNK-BP, Russia’s third largest oil company, has stepped down saying it was for “personal reasons”. Fridman’s

The Lloyd’s of London insurance market has reduced its exposure “as much as possible” to the eurozone in case the bloc’s currency collapses. That

Intesa Sanpaolo, which has more branches than any other bank in Italy, has reportedly told unions it could merge or close nearly one fifth of them to

Have you every wondered what it would be like to conduct a full 132-piece orchestra? Well now you can do just that at the London Science Museum’s new

It was the 25th Anniversary of Rolling Thunder, which began as a tribute to the veterans of the Vietnam War. In Washington DC, bikers from all over

Fireworks lit up the San Francisco sky to celebrate the Golden Gate Bridge turning 75.