2013-06-20

UNESCO has added six Syrian sites to its ‘World Heritage in Danger’ list, saying the armed conflict there has made it impossible to protect

Google has found itself in hot water in France. The country’s data protection watchdog has told the internet giant to change its privacy policy or

Senator Claire McCaskill has announced that one of the companies that carried a background check on Edward Snowden is now also under scrutiny

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has submitted his resignation after just twelve days in the job. A former university dean, Hamdallah was

Eurozone finance ministers met in Luxembourg to discuss reform of the banking sector and a request by Cyprus to revise the terms of its ten billion

The number of refugees worldwide has reached its highest level for 18 years, according to the UN, with Syria the main cause behind a dramatic

At the 50th Paris airshow, a number of unmanned aerial vehicles or, “drones” as they have become known have been demonstrating their

There is calm and silence in some streets in Turkey. After three weeks the symbolic heartlands of the protesters in Istanbul have been evacuated but

The British government’s plans to privatise the UK’s postal service have been rejected by a majority of workers at the Royal Mail. That was

June 21, 1948: Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration in New York. Otherwise known as the LP, it played

Shock and sadness greeted news of the death of Emmy Award winning actor, James Gandolfini, who has died in Rome at the age of 51. Gandolfini, best

French high fashion couturier Jean-Louis Scherrer has died at the age of 78 after a long illness. After starting out at Christian Dior, he went on

Members of Nelson Mandela’s family, including his wife Graca Machel, visited the ailing former South African president in hospital on June

Seventeen year-old Alberto di Tullio had a ride to remember on June 19. Pope Francis took the teenager, who has Down Syndrome, for a spin near the

Workers at Danish supermarket COOP have found cocaine hidden within boxes of bananas shipped from Columbia. It is the third time COOP has

Argentina forward Lionel Messi and his father Jorge were ordered on Thursday to appear before a Barcelona court in September over tax fraud

Greece’s coalition party leaders met again on Thursday June 20 to try to end the political crisis triggered by the closure of the state broadcaster

Argentina forward Lionel Messi and his father Jorge were ordered on Thursday to appear before a Barcelona court in September after Spanish

Parts of France are on orange alert as savage storms leave a trail of destruction in their wake. The South-west region is on storm watch, as the

The building blocks of life are back, and this time they’re life-size. Sculptor Nathan Sawaya’s new exhibition in New York – ‘The Art of the Brick’ –

‘Mickey in Tokyo’ is one of a series of new animated shorts produced by the Walt Disney Company, and showcased this week at the Walt Disney Family

The European Commission says the charges for passenger and freight trains using the Channel Tunnel are excessive and it wants them cut. The

At Le Bourget this year, ATR registered 173 orders worth more than three billion euros, a record for the company in a single air show. The

Epidemiologists investigating a new respiratory virus that has killed 38, say it spreads easily between people and is more deadly than SARS. More

Everyday, millions of people experience increasingly complex and intrusive security checks before they board for their flight. Tapping into

Piloting an aeroplane with touch screens like a tablet? It’s possible – indeed it’s in out near future. Richard Perrot, Director of Marketing

More protests are planned in dozens of cities in Brazil on Thursday, suggesting that decisions to reverse hikes in public transport fares in Rio and

When thousands of diseased pig carcasses floated down Shanghai’s Huangpu river in March, the world watched agog. The reality, however, is that