2012-07-31

If you live in Croatia your name could end up posted on the internet. Not in lights of stardom – but on a ‘name and shame’ list. That is what the

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has sacked two senior officials, after a plane dropped hundreds of teddy bears over the hardline state in

Dozens of anti-government protesters have been arrested, after joining unsanctioned rallies in St Petersburg and Moscow. Some of the demonstrators

British energy giant BP faces further troubles as lower oil and gas prices, as well as a decline in production due to maintenance work has a negative

Syrians fleeing the violence in their homeland said on Tuesday that conditions at Jordan’s new refugee camp must improve. The Zaatari camp opened

Russian ecologists say devastating forest fires that have ravaged vast areas of Siberia have ruined the region’s ecosystem. The authorities argue

A Spanish politician has been charged with homicide in Cuba following a car crash that killed two government opponents, including leading dissident

Part of central Oslo was evacuated and special forces sent in after a fake bomb was left on a US embassy car by mistake. The device which had been

Hit by the financial crisis, the EU’s construction sector has lost 14 percent of its work force and nine percent of investment since 2008. The

Is it time for the policymakers at the Federal Reserve to introduce some stimulus measures to try to energise the moribund US economy or will they

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti says he is starting to see light at the end of the tunnel with Europe’s debt crisis. This, despite new figures

Job losses have been announced at Deutsche Bank as its second-quarter profit plunged. The investment banking division – which has for years been

Ukraine has become the third country to ratify a free trade area agreement with former Soviet countries in the Commonwealth of Independent

More than half of India’s 1.2 billion population are without power in the country’s second blackout in as many days. Road and rail networks shut

The jailed ex-wife of child killer Marc Dutroux is set to be released from jail within weeks, after a Belgian court ruled she could be transferred to

Most of the 2.5 million inhabitants have fled Aleppo, leaving the streets and buildings of Syria’s commercial hub to the fighters. President Assad’s

An exhibition of Olympic history has opened at London’s Royal Opera House, showcasing some of the incredible artefacts and images from the Olympic

With over 300 days of sunshine per year, Ain Beni Mathar in Morocco, near the border with Algeria, was the perfect site to build a thermal and solar

Successful supermodels from the 1940’s through to the 1980’s have teamed up to share their personal careers and beauty stories in the new

France has begun withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, a process expected to take five months. The first group of combat troops – based at

UBS has suffered a surprise slump in profit. The Swiss bank’s second-quarter net profit more than halved to the equivalent of 354 million euros

Russian investigators have charged protest leader Alexei Navalny with theft, threatening one of president Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken opponents

To win the Olympics athletes need dedication, hours of training and lots of perseverance, but they also require one vital ingredient they have no

Various statues across London, including the famous Admiral Lord Nelson figure in Trafalgar Square, received specially commissioned headwear to

The number of people out of work in the eurozone hit a record high in June.   The latest figures from Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, showed

Euronews spoke with Majed Abdul-Nour, a freelance journalist in Aleppo who described the sustained violence. He says aid agencies are struggling to

The battle for Aleppo continued on Tuesday as rebels denied government claims that the Syrian military had retaken the district of

India has been hit by a second major power blackout in two days. Officials estimate that the electricity supply to more than half its 1.2 billion

China continued their impressive gold medal haul at the London Olympics on Monday when the country’s gymnasts stormed to the top of the podium to