2012-07-11

Doctors and nurses in Portugal demonstrated in the capital, Lisbon, on Wednesday after going on strike over planned cuts to the country’s healthcare

More unverified amateur video purports to show Homs under heavy bombardment just two days after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad suggested a “step by

A group of rich countries have pledged 2.6 billion dollars over the next eight years to fund family planning services in poorer, developing

Thousands of Shi’ite Muslims attended the funeral of a man shot dead as police arrested a Shi’ite cleric for sedition in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern

Russian politicians have taken another step towards approving a new law on the internet which its supporters say will protect children, and its

The 10th stage of the Tour de France has been won by Frenchman, Thomas Voeckler. The 33-year-old, who recently found out that he has not been

Seventeen years after the Srebrenica massacre, trucks are still carrying remains through Sarajevo, on the way to the Potocari memorial cemetery, for

Six months after taking office, Spain’s prime minister has given way to reality. The crisis has gone from bad to worse, the country is now wedged

The eurozone may be in the midst of a debt crisis, but the euro itself is still in strong demand as a reserve currency. Around the world

After Burberry published quarterly sales that missed expectations the markets expressed a fear that the economic crisis may finally be taking its

Keepers have discovered the body of a young man killed by tigers inside their enclosure at Copenhagen Zoo. The 21-year-old is said to be a foreign

A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a police academy in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, killing at least ten people. The bomber detonated his

A derailed train has caused a huge explosion and fire in Colombus, Ohio in the United States. Eleven carriages came off the track – several of them

Tests continue to determine the cause of death of US-born Eva Rausing, who was married to TetraPak container heir Hans Kristian Rausing. Police

News over entertainment. Those were the results of a study conducted by television researcher, Nielsen, and Sony Electronics, in an attempt to

The European Commission has announced new plans to cut the amount of CO2 emitted by new cars and vans by 2020. The proposals are likely to mean a

The ongoing territorial dispute over a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea is overshadowing talks between the region’s main powers at

Doctors and nurses in Portugal went on strike on Wednesday in protest at government spending cuts. Unions called for the two-day walkout over plans

It seems that more and more journalists want to befriend the police. But this friendship hasn’t been well received in London, where two British

Innovation is key at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire, England. A week long international trade fair for the aerospace industry, where the

A woman has been spotted with a man. So why is this a big deal? Because it’s a woman. Because it’s North Korea. Because it’s Kim

The energy cartel OPEC is predicting that the growth in demand for oil – which is already weak so far this year – will continue to slow next

Five hundred and twenty newly-identified victims of the Srebenica massacre are being buried on the 17th anniversary of the atrocity. During the

“Yes we can!” they shouted in central Madrid. Striking miners marching to the Industry Ministry on Wednesday have already achieved their first

Sex, drugs, rock and roll. A well known phrase that may have been coined with The Rolling Stones in mind. Today they are pensioners and include a

The film ‘The Imposter’ tells the unlikely but true story of how one Frenchman convinced a Texas family he was their son who had gone missing three

The International Labour Organisation has warned the eurozone could lose another 4.5 million jobs over the next four years, bringing the total number

Renault’s sales fell in the first six months of the year. They were down 3.3 percent from the same period last year. An increase in international

Germany’s cost of borrowing has fallen to a new record low. On Wednesday the government easily sold 4.15 billion euros worth of 10-year government