2012-07-03

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the arrest and jailing of Ukraine’s former interior minister violated his human rights. Yuri

Nato will once again be able to send lorries from Pakistan into Afghanistan to supply its forces. Islamabad and Washington have agreed a deal to

Slovakia’s Peter Sagan timed his sprint perfectly to take a crash-ridden stage three of the Tour de France in Boulogne-sur-Mer on Tuesday. The

Italy’s struggle to master its debt and deficit excesses by pursuing higher taxes has raised the intensity of protests by the prosperous north. The

There is a network of torture centres in Syria. That’s a conclusion in a report just published by The Human Rights Watch group. It recorded more

Last weekend’s agreement on Syria brought significant shifts in position from Russia and China, according to Kofi Annan’s spokesman. The UN-Arab

PSA Peugot Citroën’s shares gained on a report that it is to cut more jobs than originally planned this year in France, up to 10,000. With European

Don’t risk throwing the world’s biggest economy into recession with tax increases and spending cuts. That was the warning from the global lender

More government job cuts and other reductions in public spending have been outlined by Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti. Despite strike threats

Negotiations for a first binding treaty to regulate the global weapons market have begun at the United Nations headquarters in New York – planned to

Norway’s trade unions say they will decide on Friday whether to scale up a strike by offshore oil and gas workers. The 10 day old industrial action

Ethnic Serbs living in northern Kosovo have protested against plans to be integrated into the rest of the country. Roads were blocked in several

An Italian newspaper claims crucial black box data from the capsized Costa Concordia is missing. More than 30 people died when the ship ran aground

The president of the European parliament has criticised Finland’s decision to try to block the use of the eurozone’s bailout funds to buy back

The European Parliament is gearing up for a crunch vote on ACTA, the controversial global anti-piracy deal. Many MEPs are expected to reject the

Firefighters say they have made progress in the struggle to contain Colorado’s most destructive wildfire on record. People who had been evacuated

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has begun a week long visit to Scotland as part of her Diamond Jubilee celebrations.   The monarch will spend the next

There was some good news on jobs for Spain but more austerity is coming. The total number of people out of work there fell by nearly 100,000 in

Politicians have been united in their positive response to Bob Diamond’s resignation as Chief Executive of Barclays Bank. The 60-year-old quit on

Versace held its Paris Fashion Week show with the usual high expectations surrounding the luxury brand, and it did not disappoint with its usual

Some of the voices may have changed but the characters of ‘Ice Age 4 – Continental Drift’ are still doing the business in cinemas worldwide. Scrat

Only a few hours away from the final vote of the European Parliament on the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the supporters of a free

Sergio Pininfarina, whose family company designed Ferraris and many more of the 20th century’s most iconic cars, has died in Turin at the age of

Dozens of people have been killed in a series of bombings in Iraq. The deadliest blast was in Diwaniya where at least 40 people died when a bomb in

Leonardo di Caprio, Roger Moore and Ewan McGregor have one thing in common – they have all starred in movies filmed in Thailand. But not only do

Gjorgje is a farmer. He and his workers grow tomatoes in rows of greenhouses near Strumica, in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. So why does

Iran has test-fired a series of ballistic missiles including some that said were capable of reaching Israel and US bases in the region. They were

Microsoft has admitted an online advertising agency it bought five years ago is – in essence – worthless. It will write off the value of the

Accelerating towards full ownership, Italian carmaker Fiat is to buy another 3.3 percent of Chrysler, the US carmaker it manages. By exercising an

The wildfires which have been sweeping across parts of eastern Spain have claimed the life of a helicopter pilot. His death comes after two