2012-12-27

Portugal is set to beat its privatisation revenue goal by selling airport operator ANA to French construction firm Vinci. The deal is reportedly

The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sacked Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi. She was the only woman in his cabinet and the first

Hundreds of Serbian police have been protesting in the capital Belgrade to demand tougher punishment for people who attack them. The protest was

Portugal is reportedly set to beat its privatisation revenue goal by selling airport operator ANA to French construction firm Vinci in a deal worth

Egypt’s ousted President Hosni Mubarak is set to leave his prison clinic for an army hospital, but it remains unclear when. Mubarak, who ruled Egypt

2013 will be a crucial year for the French economy and the government which targets a public deficit of under three percent of GDP in 12 month’s

Mykhailo Fomenko has been appointed as national coach of Ukraine on a one year contract with the option of a further two depending on results. The

Bankia’s shareholders have received a nasty new year’s surprise. They may lose most of their investments or even all of them says the Spanish bank

The son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has made his political debut at a huge rally on the fifth anniversary of his mother’s

An enormous white dome has been erected in Moscow’s Red Square to cover Vladimir Lenin’s Mausoleum which has been closed to the public for

An Italian priest has been urged to resign after posting comments claiming women provoke violence against themselves. Father Piero Corsi has

The US fiscal cliff is so-called because it is a scything, indiscriminate sucking of money out of the economy by the government, to pay its

The Central African Republic (CAR) has called for international help as it struggles to push back rebel forces that now control much of the

The Serbian Football Association’s 80 000 euro fine for incidents in an Under-21 match against England could be increased after UEFA appealed the

Jordan says it is continuing to see an increase in Syrian refugees crossing into its territory. Border officials say many people are being shot at by

The French President, Francois Hollande, has said that he won’t negotiate with Al-Qaeda for the release of four French nationals kidnapped by the

With this week’s talks in Damascus on the Syrian crisis bearing little fruit, the focus is moving to Moscow as the international community seeks a

Another sign of economic recovery in China to cheer the markets with the news industrial profit growth quickened to 22.5% in November

Shares in nationalised Spanish banking giant Bankia slumped by twelve and a half percent on opening in Madrid. It followed the disclosure the bank

A soup kitchen for the poor is something St Emilian church in the Greek capital Athens provides every day. But with the debt crisis throwing so

The proposed privatisation of six hospitals and 27 clinics in Madrid has provoked protests, sit-ins and demonstrations by doctors, many of whom have

He needs to save the US – and in effect – the global economy from a crippling new recession. So US President Barack Obama has cut short his Christmas

An aquarium wall has spontaneously shattered in Shanghai in China. CCTV images show the 15-centimetre thick glass exploding outwards, shooting

Former US President George Bush senior has been moved to a Houston hospital’s intensive care unit after a “series of setbacks”. He was hospitalised

Residents and tourists gather in Phuket, Thailand, to remember the thousands of victims lost in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.

Over 200 Czechs take part in a New Year swimming race in the Vltava river in Prague.

A former homeless person volunteers at a Greek Orthodox church food distribution centre on Christmas Day.  

The so called “Delhi bus rape victim” has been flown to Singapore for further treatment at a hospital specialising in organ donations. Her family is

In Nicaragua, around 400 people living near the San Cristobal volcano have been ordered to leave their homes because of a series of small eruptions

Toyota has agreed to pay out more than a billion euros to settle a class action lawsuit launched by car owners affected by a series of mass