2013-05-23

IMF chief Christine Lagarde is back in court today facing more questions over her role in a controversial payout made to a French businessman. If

With Europe still mired in recession, euronews asked the former President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, to consider the results

Türkiye bahar aylarında 30 yılı aşkın bir süredir ülkeyi kana bulayan çatışmayı bitirmek için kararlı bir çözüm süreci başlattı. Türk yetkililer

The woman who talked to the attackers of the soldier in London has described how she tried to calm them down. Ingrid Loyau-Kennett is originally

Britain’s Ministry of Defence has identified the soldier who died near the Woolwich army barracks in southeast London as 25-year-old Drummer Lee

European football’s governing body UEFA has toughened up it’s stance on racism within the game and introduced a minimum 10 match ban for any players

All the big names in Russian opera and ballet performed at a recent gala to open the new Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Guests were

French President François Hollande has demonstrated his country’s close ties with Germany by delivering the keynote speech at an event to celebrate

Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov has reversed a decision to strip ten reporters of their media credentials, after more than 100 journalists

Ford is to shut its two Australian production plants after 90 years of making cars there. It blamed the strength of the Australian dollar, along

Two French heads of the IMF in a row in legal scandals of different kinds begins to reflect embarrassingly on their country of origin. Christine

Holiday-makers planning to travel to Greece this summer may be well advised not to take the new five-euro bank notes with them. The new five-euro

With high streets across Europe languishing and many spaces shuttered, and with people keen to bring opera closer to the people, what better time to

Islamist suicide bombers have struck at an army barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger. In Agadez in the north, at least 20 soldiers were

The murder of a soldier in Woolwich has already sparked a sequence of worrying and violent reactions in the United Kingdom. Hours after the brutal

The eurozone’s downturn has eased slightly, but businesses continue to suffer from a chronic lack of new orders, which should inhibit any meaningful

Nissan has issued a recall for more than 840,000 vehicles worldwide. They are the Micra, which is known as the March in some markets, and their

Grandiose, dramatic, harmonic and controversial – 200 hundred years after he was born, German composer Richard Wagner continues to inspire and stir

As the Cannes Film Festival celebrates 100 years of Bollywood, one of India’s most iconic dancers, choreographers and musicians, Raghunath Manet

French singer and songwriter Georges Moustaki has died after a long illness. He was 79. Greek-born Moustaki arrived in Paris in 1951 and will be

A Russian court has refused to grant parole to a jailed member of the Pussy Riot punk band. According to supporters, the judge ruled against Maria

Thousands of Italian students have sailed to Palermo on so-called “ships of lawfulness” to mark the 21st anniversary of the killing of an anti-mafia

Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes after heavy rain caused flooding in southeastern Norway. In Nesbyen, a mudslide reached

Toupee-wearing and more over-dressed than an audience has ever seen him – Michael Douglas takes on the role of gay, flamboyant pianist Liberace in

Hundreds of Venezuelan university lecturers and students marched through Caracas to demand better pay for teachers and increased student grants.

Wall Street rejoined the worldwide sell-off of shares on Thursday as soon as the New York stock exchanges opened. US investors had actually been

A full-grown water monitor roamed inside Thailand’s parliament building in Bangkok for two days before being captured. It disrupted lawmakers’ plans

The residents of Moore got a chance to see up close, what was left of their houses, after Monday’s tornado killed at least 24 people and destroyed

A fourth night of rioting in the Swedish capital saw groups of people, many of them young, setting fire to cars, breaking windows and clashing with