2012-10-22

Lawyers will appeal against the six-year jail term handed to seven officials in Italy for failing to give adequate warning of a 2009 earthquake.

Surveillance video has emerged which captures the moment a huge car bomb exploded near a restaurant in Beirut. Friday’s blast killed intelligence

Eleven men, with suspected links to al-Qaeda, have been charged with terrorism conspiracy in Jordan over an alleged plot to attack shopping centres

Two regions in Spain have just had elections with results that look simple but are not. In Galicia, the conservative People’s Party (PP) in power in

Violence broke out in Pristina at a demonstration against a new push by the European Union to normalise relations between Kosovo and Serbia. Eighteen

Russian investigators say a man accused of plotting unrest with other opponents of President Vladimir Putin has turned himself in and

Dutch electronics giant Philips share price posted the biggest increase on the Amsterdam stock market on Monday thanks to quarterly results above

Sexual abuse allegations against one-time British television star Jimmy Savile have rocked the BBC. Now the crisis engulfing the broadcaster, who

Spanish newspapers see the regional election victory in Galicia as giving a breathing space to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, his centre right

One effect of the financial crisis on Europe is its encouraging of the efforts of separatists who think their regions would be better off if they

A group of six Italian scientists and a former senior government official have been sentenced to six years over their handling of the L’Acquila

The political position of former EU health chief John Dalli had become ‘untenable’ the European Commission has admitted. Dalli quit last week

Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen was unhurt after a man tried to attack him with a knife on Monday, his aides said. Katainen was campaigning

Ukraine’s industrialists and politicians are betting on massive investment in traditional primary industries to spearhead economic development.

Set in 1960s Britain, Ginger and Rosa is a new drama from director Sally Potter, starring Elle Fanning and Alice Englert as two best friends. The

Celebrated Italian pianist Mario Formenti is playing a piece by French composer Gaspard le Roux. More used to the concert hall, Formenti has spent

Sarah Smith is part of a new generation of environmentally-aware entrepreneurs. Her drive to suceed has taken her to Paris where she will pitch her

The crucial swing state of Florida will be the battleground for the third and final US presidential debate. Commentators generally agree that

Two female members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot convicted of protesting against President Vladimir Putin in a cathedral have been sent to prisons

This car can steer, park for you and even brake in case of an emergency. A prototype automatic driving system fitted into the electric vehicle

Poznan rises early. The city of just over half a million has with Warsaw the lowest unemployment rate in Poland and getting to work on time and in

BP is heading towards a fresh start in Russia after the announcement it has sold out its stake in the TNK-BP joint venture to state-owned oil giant

Japan’s September exports fell by more than the median forecast, 10.3%, and the Bank of Japan governor today said the economy was “leveling

While the eurozone made dramatic inroads into its fiscal deficit deadweight last year, slashing it to 4.1 percent of GDP from 2010’s 6.2 percent

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro denied on Monday that he is dying. The 86-year-old published photos and a strongly-worded article in the

Lance Armstrong’s life ban from cycling, imposed by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, has been upheld by the International Cycling Union – which

Lebanese government troops were deployed on Beirut’s streets on Monday to stop fierce gun battles which were raging between Shi’ite and Sunni

Cycling legend Lance Armstrong remained cool for the cameras at a charity event in Austin Texas on Sunday, not betraying any particular concern about

On Monday South Korean police blocked activists who were trying release balloons carrying propaganda to North Korea after Pyongyang threatened to