World and European champions Spain reached the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 as winners of Group C and sent Croatia crashing out after beating them 1-0

The US and Russian presidents have agreed that deadly conflict in Syrian must end but they have failed to set out a plan on how to stem the

It has been almost four weeks since miners in Asturias first went on strike, protesting against government cuts meant to reduce Spain’s budget

This lady is not for turning is the warning Angela Merkel has delivered to Greece in the wake of its pro-bailout election vote. Shortly after

Three years: that’s the time Carrefour’s new CEO, Georges Plassat, says he needs to turn around Europe’s largest retailer. A realistic estimate

After a nailbiting election, the race to form a new government in Greece has begun. For the winner, New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, who will

The victory of pro-bailout parties in the election in Greece is being seen as a positive step towards averting a further crisis in the eurozone

At the G20 summit at Los Cabos in Mexico European leaders are coming under increasing pressure from the rest of the world to come up with a lasting

French President Francois Hollande’s Socialist party are celebrating after gaining an outright majority in the National Assembly. Sunday’s

A man arrested over the fatal shooting of two female gendarmes in the Var region of southern France on Sunday night has reportedly admitted carrying

Chinese astronauts have carried out a manned docking with an experimental space module, the latest milestone in China’s ambitious campaign to build a

Despite both candidates claiming victory in Egypt’s presidential elections, supporters of Mohammed Morsi have been celebrating in Cairo’s Tahrir

Talks on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme have got off to a tense and difficult start, according to Michael Mann, the spokesman for EU foreign

How with the sharpest of eyes and intellect can you start to analyse the Greek elections? Dubbed the financial equivalent of the Cuban missile

The rocketing price Spain has to pay to borrow money has prompted investors to believe it will become the fourth euro zone country to need an

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Fashionistas flocked to the UK to be part of the first ever London Men’s Fashion Week. The three day event comes as men’s clothing continues to be

“Scream” is the second single from Usher’s new album “Looking 4 Myself”. This time round, in a shift from his usual lovelorn ballads, Usher’s music

In her new movie ‘Peace, Love & Misunderstanding’ two-time Oscar-winner Jane Fonda plays a stalwart hippie who helps her estranged daughter through a

A new therapy for treating breast cancer could increase life expectancy by 50 percent for sufferers. T-DM1 has been praised by cancerologists for

The mobile phone group Vodafone looks certain to have won its bid for Britain’s fixed-line operator Cable and Wireless Worldwide, after CWW’s biggest

The British supermarket giant Tesco has admitted defeat in Japan and is pulling out of the country after an eight year attempt to crack the

After the Sarkozy ‘hyper-presidency’ ushered in five years ago with the new-style hyperactive showbiz glitz of Nicolas Sarkozy, France is getting

In search of new horizons and brighter career prospects, Robin and Aafke took the plunge to work abroad. The budding radiographers set sail from the

A result that will lead Greece back to growth is how some European heads have described the result of the parliamentary elections. Although the

Germany says the terms of Greece’s 130 billion euro bailout should remain non-negotiable. The comments come after the anti-bailout Syriza party as

Talks are underway to form a coalition government in Greece following Sunday’s forced re-election.   Centre-right party New Democracy failed to grab

After Greece made it through to the quarter finals knocking out Russia a day earlier, it was looking as though there could be another upset as the

Germany secured their place in the final eight knocking out Denmark exactly 20 years after their surprise Euro 92 victory. Germany opened the scoring

French newspapers claimed the Socialist party’s outright win in legislative elections would given them ‘carte blanche’ to carry out their promises to