2013-06-01

Turkish police pulled back from Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Saturday afternoon, allowing tens of thousands of demonstrators to flood in after days of

Police used batons and pepper spray to break up a small group of activists, who were throwing stones and smoke bombs, during a second day of

Around 130,000 passengers pass the Merdare crossing point between Kosovo and Serbia everyday. What makes it special is that both Serb and Albanian

Former AC Milan legends Pippo Inzaghi and Andriy Shevchenko both netted in Kahka Kaladze’s testimonial match in Georgia on Friday, to the delight of

Russia is taking steps to kick its smoking habit – with new tobacco legislation that came into force on Saturday, June 1 It is now illegal for

Taksim Square fell eerily quiet after the police moved out. It was still crowded, but the tension dropped almost palpably. It was a stark contrast to

Jose Mourinho is leaving Real Madrid after a three-year spell and turns Blue again. Five years since his departure from London, the Portuguese

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), of manipulating this

Italian newspaper La Stampa has published a video plea for information about the whereabouts of correspondent Domenico Quirico, who has been missing

Germans are renowned for their stoical attitude. But after the darkest winter in over 40 years, even the hardiest residents are being tested as rain

The US and China spat over American missiles in the Pacific is nothing new. But this time, they’ve entered a new war of words – over cybercrime

What began innocently enough as a peaceful protest against a plan to transform a cherished green space in the heart of Istanbul has been transformed

Clashes between police and anti-government protestors in Turkey have continued to escalate well into Saturday in some of the fiercest protests for

Residents in Brussels have complained about a noisy neighbour: Lola the donkey, who is appearing in a play at a cultural centre in the same apartment

One bottle alone, a Petrus 1990, fetched a cool 7,625 euros at auction in Paris: three times the expected price. The French presidency was selling

A verdict in Silvio Berlusconi’s own sex-related trial is due soon. In a parallel case Italian prosecutors have asked for seven-year jail sentences

In the US more tornadoes have struck Oklahoma City including the same suburb that was devastated just ten days ago. Casualties have been reported

Disturbances continued well into the night of Friday into Saturday in Turkey as police clashed with demonstrators in the fiercest anti-government

Protesters in Beirut threw tomatoes outside parliament in anger at a decision to put back Lebanese elections that had been due to take place this

For the first time hundreds of people of different ethnic backgrounds have marched together in the northern Bosnian city of Prijedor. The

Germany’s latest national census, the first since reunification in 1990 shows there were fewer people living in the country than previously thought