2013-05-16

There was a meeting of minds over a future Syria without President Assad but the US and Turkey differ over how to achieve it . A day of talks

When Raquell Guimaraes, a Brazilian fashion designer was short on staff and needed to boost production for her clothing line, she turned to the

It is business as usual for secondary schools in Greece. With threats of arrests from the government should teachers not show up for work, they have

After a glittering career spanning 20 years David Beckham is to retire at the end of the season. The announcement comes three days after the

In France, fighting against discrimination based on sexual orientation and the debate over legislating on same-sex marriage has been high in the

A highly symbolic song from Portugal’s democratic revolution almost 40 years ago is again being sung loudly after two years of austerity measures

François Hollande came out fighting at a news conference marking his first anniversary as France’s President – a day after data showed the country is

Flattened homes and fences, trees and debris scattered across yards, that is what remains of North Texas. 20,000 homes and businesses are thought to

Venezuela’s army has been deployed to fight organised crime, which new president Nicolas Maduro has called the greatest threat to the country. Three

At the end of a donor’s conference just held for Mali, its president could count up three and a quarter billion euros in aid promises, some of the

Upgrades on border lines and crossings are taking place as Croatia becomes the 28th member state of the European Union on July 1. The country has

A new survey shows that at least 71 percent of European industry chiefs believe that China will be level or ahead of Europe in technological terms in

US President Barack Obama and Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have both declared there is no place for Syria’s president in any future

More than two thousand people have held a rally protesting against a planned chemical plant in southern China. It is the second demonstration

Scientists at the Oregon Health and Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Centre(ONPRC) have announced that they have succeeded

Japan’s economy enjoyed rapid expansion in the first three months of the year. Gross domestic product rose by a better than expected 0.9 percent

Ballerina Barbie, Vet Barbie, Mermaid Barbie, Tribal Beauty Barbie – since she was first introduced in 1959, the long-legged blond has been

Chilly Gonzales – the classically trained pianist, comedian-cum-cabaret artist, and burgeoning sitcom writer – is currently on tour across Europe

In France a man has shot himself dead in front of a group of children in a nursery school in Paris. According to reports, the man, believed to be

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, has announced that he is prepared to pursue nuclear diplomacy with world powers. Jalili met with

On May 11, Euronews gained exclusive access to the Tal Ashehab border crossing between Jordan and Syria. The area is controlled by the military and

A top Google executive has denied that his company misled British authorities over the minimising of its tax bill there. Matt Brittin told the

Germany’s plans for a costly drone project have come crashing down. During a parliamentary debate, the German defence minister defended the

Age is no obstacle for 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura as he begins his third attempt to climb to the top of Mount Everest. If he succeeds, the

‘‘Enough, I’m tired of running away, better to end it here,’‘ said Italian mafia boss Giuseppe Pesce as he handed himself into police after three

Winners of Sunday’s parliamentary election in Bulgaria, the centre-right GERB party, want the result cancelled because of possible irregularities

A car bomb exploded in Sadr, a Shiite neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least five people. More than a dozen people were

Greece’s prime minister is in China seeking investment and trade deals to help revive his country’s recession-battered economy. Antonis Samaras and

Falling prices – particularly in Germany and France – pulled eurozone inflation to its lowest for three years in April. The sharp drop – to 1.2