2012-11-27

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has waded into the leadership row threatening to splinter his conservative UMP party. His intervention

French President François Hollande and steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal have vowed to continue talking over the future of a plant in the north-east of the

The number of people out of work in France has risen to its highest in 14-years. The pressure is now President Francois Hollande to stem the

Egyptian telecoms magnate Naguib Sawiris has stepped up activity in the European telecoms market. He has expressed interest in Telecom Italia and is

It was predicted 45 years ago, but it was only earlier this year that the existence of the ‘Higgs Boson’ could finally be proven. Today Professor

Large areas of Wales and England remain on flood alert after several days of almost non-stop heavy rains caused devastation in many parts of both

A fire that killed 111 textile workers in Bangladesh has been declared as arson. More than 150 others were injured. For the second successive day

The announcement of a deal to reduce Greek debt did not stop protesters from taking to the streets to oppose job losses demanded by international

On October 29, 2004 Yasser Arafat is on board a helicopter. The man some call “The father of Palestine’‘ is critically ill. An air ambulance in

Portugal’s parliament has given final approval to its 2013 budget which includes the biggest tax increases in modern history. The centre-right

The debt crisis in the recession hit eurozone is the biggest threat to the global economy, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and

Thousands of opponents of Egypt’s President Mursi have taken to the streets in protest against his special decree. In scenes reminiscent of the

Just over two years since retiring from a glittering cricket career Andrew Flintoff is about to embark on an altogether different kind of sporting

A true declaration of war or an attempt to apply pressure while awaiting the mediation of the President? France’s Minister for Industrial Renewal

Chinese artist Yue Minjun’s first major European exhibition is now open in Paris. Offering a cynical view of contemporary Chinese society, the show

End of Watch, the gritty police drama starring Michael Pena and Jake Gyllenhaal as a pair of detectuives working in one of the toughest

Thousands of furious Italian workers at Europe’s biggest steel plant have staged a sit-in after management announced it is to suspend

Israel’s former foreign minister Tzipi Livni has formed a new political party to stand in January’s general election as an alternative to the

The remains of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have been re-buried in Ramallah after his body was exhumed to try to determine whether he

The debt crisis in the recession hit euro zone is the biggest threat to the global economy, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation

France’s President Francois Hollande is set to meet Lakshmi Mittal in a bid to end an intensifying row over the fate of two idle steel

Greek bank stocks dropped ten per cent amid fears that the Greek debt buyback plan will further erode their diminishing capital base. The stocks

The former French prime minister Francois Fillon is setting up his own group of supporters while his conservative UMP party tears itself apart over

Male prisoners in Thailand performed a dance routine to “Gangnam Style”, the song by South Korean rapper Psy that has become an Internet sensation.

The leader of the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reportedly agreed to pull out from the eastern cities of Goma and

Farmers have driven tractors in the EU institutions area Luxembourg Square, coming from France, Germany, Netherlands, and of course Belgium to

Some 20 kilometres from Skopje in the Macedonian countryside lies Hi-Tech, a company which specialises in manufacturing circuit boards, the electric

Protesters in Cairo appear determined to press on with demands that Egypt’s president gives up the near-absolute powers he decreed himself, despite

Two hundred thousand people turned out in Rio de Janeiro urging the president to throw out a new law they believe will cost their region dear. It

Euro finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund have reached a deal on an urgently needed bailout for near-bankrupt Greece. After 12