The Polish government has survived a vote of no-confidence in parliament, brought about by the ongoing wiretapping scandal. Starting last week a

Romania’s parliament has asked the president to resign after his businessman brother was detained for allegedly taking bribes. Parliament’s vote

Nigerian police now confirm at least 21 people have died in a large explosion at the Banex Plaza shopping centre in the capital Abuja. Another 17

Corsica’s most active militant separatist group is ending its armed campaign. The National Front for the Liberation of Corsica, the FLNC, was set

Russia has revoked its right to launch military action in Ukraine. The move, taken at the behest of President Vladimir Putin, was overwhelmingly

Award-winning Spanish novelist Ana Maria Matute has died. She won almost every Spanish literary award, including the Spanish-speaking world’s top

The jury in the British phone-hacking trial has been discharged after failing to reach verdicts on further charges against former newspaper editor

Children who survived South Korea’s Sewol ferry disaster have returned to school, ten weeks after the tragedy. Holding hands as they walked through

Awash with oil from shale production the United States has taken a small step towards lifting its long-standing ban on the export of crude.

The two Koreas have commemorated the 64th anniversary of the start of the Korean war. South Korea’s president vowed to make efforts for peaceful

The old reign has made way for a new Spanish monarch but the corruption scandal implicating the younger daughter of King Juan Carlos, and his

An explosion has ripped through a shopping centre in the Nigerian capital Abuja killing at least 30 people but local media is warning the death toll

British workers get just eight public holidays a year, putting them among those with the fewest annual days off in Europe. They are on a par with

Abu Dhabi’s state-owned Etihad Airways says it has agreed terms and conditions to buy just under half of Italy’s loss-making flagship airline

US actor and director Zach Braff is back with a new comedy – ‘Wish I Was Here’. The film tells the story of Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor

Iraqi President Nouri al Maliki wants to start forming a new government within a week, but he has rejected calls to form a more inclusive government

A Spanish judge has called for Princess Cristina and her husband to stand trial on tax fraud and money laundering charges. The sister of

The much awaited EuroMusic Contest final event will be held at Divan du Monde (Paris) on June 30th. Over 4,000 artists entered this innovative

It has been five years since Michael Jackson died yet his career is more alive than ever. Just last month, a second posthumous album, Xscape

Disturbing photographs have emerged showing leaders of Greece’s extreme right-wing Golden Dawn Party posing in front of a giant swastika flag. The

Security firm Kaspersky Lab says it has discovered that a major European bank has been plundered of more than half a million euros by cyber

Shares of GDF Suez fell 2.5 percent on Wednesday after the French government sold part of its stake in the gas and power group – offloading 3.1

It turns out the US economy was much weaker than had been thought in the first three months of this year. The final reading from the Bureau of

At a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels the organisation’s Secretary-General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, accused Russia of not respecting its

In Egypt, at least eight people are being treated for injuries after homemade bombs went off at four metro stations and a courthouse in

The Russian parliament’s upper chamber has voted overwhelmingly to revoke President Vladimir Putin’s right to order military intervention in Ukraine

In the EU, seven out of 10 bottles are recycled, but it is far from easy. First, the bottles must be sorted. Euronews watched the process as a

He is one of the most celebrated photographers of his generation. Now, Germany’s Juergen Teller has his first solo show in Athens, entitled –