A giant purple hand moored on the River Vltava in Prague has been causing a stir in the Czech Republic. The middle-finger salute to the Prague

Brazil has sold the production rights to the largest ever oil discovery following an auction at a beachfront hotel in Rio. The Brazilian state-run

She is known as Maria and has captivated Greece. An international search is now under way to find her real parents For the moment the young girl is

Miki Kobayashi of Japan won gold in the women’s karate -55kg final on the third day of the World Combat Games in Saint Petersburg

Chris Froome hit the summit of cycling this year when he won the sport’s most prestigious race – the Tour de France. Born and raised in Kenya

The ‘Seed of Change’ scheme is growing solid roots in Palermo. In an abandoned nursery in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city, the project

State funerals have been held in Sicily for the African migrant victims of recent shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea. Absent from the ceremony in

Exhausted firefighters continue to battle wildfires across the Australian state of New South Wales. The hottest September on record has added to

Spain has been ordered to release a Basque separatist militant. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled Ines del Rio Prada a member of the

Starbucks in China has been accused of charging customers there more for its coffee than in other countries. An investigation by state-owned China

EU foreign ministers meeting Luxembourg told Ukraine on Monday that it must resolve the row over jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko if the

The Brazilian government has launched a major security operation in Rio de Janeiro as the production rights to the largest-ever oil discovery are

Brazil has auctioned production rights to the Libra field, its largest-ever oil discovery, despite domestic opposition. President Dilma Rousseff

The British government has become the first in Europe to provide state guarantees to help fund a nuclear project. The move comes after French utility

An explosion has torn through a bus in southern Russia, in what the authorities say was a bomb attack, killing at least five people. Investigators

This is the Roma couple who have appeared in court in Greece accused of abducting a four-year-old girl. The youngster, known as ‘Maria’, was

Ines del Rio Prada’s argument that she be freed from prison in Spain was based on the principle that there should be no punishment without law, and

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) says it will not examine the thoroughness of a Russian investigation into the massacre of Polish war

French chef Raymond Blanc has caused an angry online response after criticising the finalist of a UK television cooking show. Blanc tore into a

Shares of JPMorgan Chase slipped on Monday following reports it had reached a tentative deal with the US government over bad mortgage loans. Chief

Web users have vented their frustration after popular social networking website Facebook began experiencing problems. People are reporting they are

The European Court of Human Rights has called on Spain to release a member of the Basque separatist organisation ETA and to end what has been known

Japanese exports were up in September, but growth was well short of expectations. Exports rose 11.5 percent from a year earlier; economists had

The eight European teams to battle it out for four spots in next year’s World Cup finals in Brazil found out on Monday who they will meet in next

UK supermarket giant Tesco has admitted it threw away close to 30,000 tonnes of food – in just six months. It also said a combination of

Philips said its latest quarterly net profit – at 281 million euros – was nearly triple what it made a year ago. That follows two years of

Jackass co-founder Johnny Knoxville plays an obnoxious octogenarian in his latest movie ‘Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa’. It’s the story of 86-year