2012-12-13

The latest long-delayed bailout is unlikely to make much difference to Christmas in Greece as people come to terms with wage cuts and unemployment

A ceremony was held for Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who suffered bleeding due to a six-hour operation. The 58-year old socialist leader went

‘Lincoln’ – Steven Spielberg’s epic set around the time of the US civil war – leads the nominations for the 2013 Golden Globes. The 19th century

EU leaders gathered for an unprecedented seventh summit in what has been a turbulent and costly 2012. In contrast to recent meetings an air of

Punch-ups in parliament for a second day as fighting once again broke out amongst Ukrainian politicians. Thursday’s brawls were caused by

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is refusing to resign despite being charged with fraud and breach of trust.    The charges come five

Monte Carlo’s Opera House has opened the season with one of Puccini’s less known but most complex works. Rising opera star Meagan Miller, the

French carmaker Renault was the second best performer on the Cac40 on Thursday after it said it was selling off its stake in the Swedish

On behalf of Ms Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian lawyer currently in prison, Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has accepted this year’s Sakharov Prize for

The head of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party, Pier Luigi Bersani, has dismissed former premier Silvio Berlusconi’s latest turnaround to drop out

The deal reached in Brussels by European Union finance ministers on Thursday to create a single supervisor for the eurozone’s banks is the latest

South Korea has called for tougher sanctions against the North as protests continued against Pyongyang’s rocket launch on Wednesday. The government

EU leaders have arrived for their last Brussels summit of the year, hours after finance ministers agreed to give the European Central Bank new

The nurse who died after being involved in a telephone prank targetting the British royal family was found hanged. On the first day of the inquest

Brussels has responded to former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi’s declaration that he would drop plans to run for election if outgoing Prime

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, of The Hurt Locker, has chronicled the 10-year manhunt for Osama bin Laden in her new film Zero Dark

The Salaj family estate in the village of Grabovnica in central Croatia turns into a fairy tale decorated with an ever-increasing number of Christmas

Spice mania descended on London with the premiere of the ‘jukebox musical’ Viva Forever! based on the songs of British girl band the Spice

If you made plans on how to spend the last remainings days of Earth’s existence, forget about them. Humankind is safe. At least, according to

Sixteen people have been killed in a car bomb in a town near Damascus. The explosion occurred in Qatana, about 25 kilometres from the Syrian

Violent clashes broke out in Buenos Aires on Wednesday between riot police and demonstrators protesting against the acquittal of 13 people accused

Police clashed with protesters in Bangladesh’s capital on Thursday, as opposition parties enforced a general strike, demanding that the government

Violence continues in Hebron, as the funeral takes place for a Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli soldiers on Wednesday evening. The 17 year-old

Here are this year´s 12 most amazing no comment videos December: 7.3 earthquake hits Japan November: Barack Obama’s Victory speech October

Last February Emily Whitehead was a very ill seven-year-old. She had been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and standard treatments had

Global airlines have revised upwards their profit forecasts for this year and next. The International Air Transport Association, which represents

The jobs news from Greece continues to be relentlessly bad. The latest official figures for the third quarter of the year show the jobless rate

European finance ministers have agreed to release the next instalment of Greece’s much-needed loan. This next payment of 34.4 billion euros had

A second day of parliamentary sessions in Ukraine has descended into chaos with even more fighting within the chamber.   A new speaker has now been

“Lincoln” is a biographical war drama directed and produced by Steven Spielberg. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as iconic US President Abraham Lincoln and