2012-09-06

Another bloody day in Syria with as many as 90 people killed on Thursday. Amateur footage uploaded to social media websites gives a glimpse of the

As President Barack Obama prepared to accept the Democratic Party nomination to run for a second term, it appeared as if the party faithful has been

The high street in Spain is set for more pain. Everyday living costs like heating, phone bills, clothes and haircuts have gone up in price following

More than half of the 61 people who died when a migrant boat capsized in the Aegean Sea were children, according to officials. The small vessel

A website in Lithuania that publishes lists of KGB spies operating during the country’s Soviet-era crashed on Thursday as thousands of visitors tried

Nokia new smartphones failed to impress the markets and the Finnish mobile phone maker’s share price plunged after they were showcased on Wednesday

The eurozone debt crisis is worsening the outlook for major developed world economies according to the Organisation for Economic

Shares rallied on Thursday as investors welcomed the European Central Bank’s aggressive sovereign bond buying plan. Europe’s stock market indexes

Can and should Europe be doing more to help its young find work? Only this week the International Labour Organisation said global youth unemployment

It appears there are no limits to the talents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.   He was in Siberia on Wednesday to teach young Siberian

Barack Obama first got to the White House because he brought Americans the most hope. Now the president of has to convince them he is still their

After nearly a year out battling cancer Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh said he can’t wait for his highly-anticipated return to the sport at this

Some details of the four victims killed in a shooting in the French Alps on Wednesday have emerged following a press conference held by a French

Germany’s national carrier Lufthansa has been forced to cancel two-thirds of scheduled flights on Friday ahead of a 24-hour walk-out by cabin

French director Olivier Assayas brought his movie Apres Mai to the Venice Film Festival. It follows a group of Parisian youths after the May 1968

The European Central Bank is to buy the government bonds of struggling eurozone countries’ like Spain and Italy to lower their borrowing costs, but

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that the European Central Bank is not ripping its own rule book with its massive bond buying

As the world marked International Literacy Day - new figures showed many Europeans still lack basic reading and writing skills.   Roughly one in

European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi has given some details of his plan to “save the euro”. The bank will buy government bonds of struggling

Some 75 million years ago, this gigantic 12 metre-long dinosaur – Atsinganosaurus velauciensis, a member of the Titanosaurus family, lived in the

At least 58 people have drowned after a boat carrying illegal immigrants sank off the coast of Turkey. The passengers were believed to be mostly

Maria lives in Portugal. She is 44, her daughter is 13. Divorced and jobless, she used to work as an executive secretary but has been unemployed

Australia’s struggling Qantas Airways has agreed to a 10-year alliance with Dubai’s Emirates, a key step in efforts to turn around its loss-making

The latest unemployment figures for Greece show that almost one in four people was jobless in June. The official number of people out of work rose

The tragic story of Mimì and Rodolfo in early nineteenth century Paris, and the unforgettable arias which made La Bohème immortal, have drawn

The night sky of western Turkey was lit up by an explosion in which 25 soldiers were killed and four others wounded. The blast happened at a

Activists from the international environmental organisation Greenpeace, some dressed up as bears, staged a protest near Russian energy giant

A large 14-storey tower block from the 1960’s on the outskirts of Paris was demolished in a matter of seconds on September 5 by French authorities

Barack Obama has officially been nominated as the Democratic Party candidate for November’s presidential election by an overwhelming majority. The

Police have confirmed they have found a four-year-old girl alive hiding under the bodies of the three British victims of a fatal shooting in the