2012-06-15

There might be football fever over the Euro 2012 tournament but local businesses in Ukraine are in a cold sweat for a different reason. After the

Luis Moreno Ocampo was the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for nine years. The ICC is the first permanent court ever created to

An initial report into one of Switzerland’s worst coach crashes in 30 years is pointing the finger of blame in some way at the driver. The coach

Poland fans have Krakow’s resident football ‘oracle’, Citta the elephant for predictions on how their team will fare at Euro 2012. Ukraine

It is time to look at Africa with fresh eyes. There is a spirit of optimism on this continent of over a billion people. The World Bank says

It has been 16 months since the violence in Syria began and the time after Friday prayers continues to be an opportunity for dissent to be

Thousands of people have joined a demonstration in Egypt’s second city, Alexandria, to condemn a court ruling which allows Hosni Mubarak’s former

Miners have clashed with police in Spain’s northwestern province of Asturias, as workers continue a strike against austerity measures. Home-made

There is a growing group of dissenting voters in Egypt, angry that the country’s two presidential candidates have left them with no real choice in

It is a weekend of danger on the horizon for the international money markets. The reason is Greece, and the election there. It may see a government

Spain’s total debt has risen nearly five percent over the course of a year, another cause for concern after the country agreed a 100 billion euro

In Washington, the Obama administration has relaxed immigration rules on the deportation of young people taken to the US without legal

A young man who claimed to have lived in a German forest for five years has admitted to police that he made it all up. The youngster, dubbed

Japanese police have arrested the last fugitive from the doomsday Aum cult, who was still on the run after 17 years. Fifty-four year old Katsuya

Human Rights Watch, a leading international humanitarian watchdog is warning that migrant workers in Qatar face abuse sometimes amounting to forced

France’s second round of voting for who enters parliament promises to be a tighter race than perhaps ever before, between the socialists (PS)

French and Ukrainian supporters were both feeling confident, as they travelled to see their sides go head-to-head Donetsk. At Kiev train station

Europe’s number one retailer Carrefour is selling out of Greece. The company says it is selling to its joint-venture partner Marinopoulos, which will

Hong Kong Exchanges has made its first overseas takeover, buying the London Metal Exchange, the world’s largest metals marketplace, for 1.7 billion

Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded five Dutch banking groups including ING, Rabobank, and ABN AMRO, and Belgium’s biggest bank and insurer

The big financial squeeze is hurting businesses everywhere, and the arms trade has not escaped the deep cuts in state spending in the western

Hosting the Euro 2012 football tournament is being seen by some as a chance to strengthen Ukrainian patriotism. As people adorn themselves and

So Spain’s 4-0 win ends Ireland’s chances of going through to the next round. The Irish side had gone into the tournament on a 14-match unbeaten run

A smash hit like Bad Day should have been a good thing for Canadian singer Daniel Powter. It was used as the farewell song on American Idol, sold

Woody Allen and Penelope Cruz added their own brand of glamour to the opening night of the LA Film Festival, with the US premiere of the romantic

New figures show an increase in Spain’s total debt which is adding pressure to the troubled economy. Debt was 72.1 percent of GDP for the first

Aung San Suu Kyi has recovered from a bout of minor illness to continue her European tour with a visit to Norway to receive the Nobel peace prize

With ISEG Jean-Phillippe of Lyon asked: “Would it be possible to have a Europe split into two, a two-speed Europe? And what would the uses and

US President Barack Obama has taken a break from the campaign trail to visit the new skyscraper being built on the site of the Twin Towers in New

UN observers who were finally able to enter the Syrian town of Haffa, where there have been warnings of another massacre, say they found a ‘strong