2014-07-21

Patrice Evra has signed for Italian champions Juventus ending an eight-and-a-half-year spell at Manchester United. The 33-year-old France left back

England and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has announced his retirement from International duty. The 34-year-old earned 114 caps playing for the

With the World Cup dust almost settled and the national leagues still on holiday, we take a look at some of the key movers and shakers from the

Egyptians are complaining that a cut in government energy subsidies has led to a massive rise not only in fuel prices but also other goods and

A train carrying flight MH17 victims has left the rebel-held town of Torez in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister, Volodymyr Groysman

As the crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines aircraft that killed 298 people is investigated in Ukraine and fighting rages on between rebels and

US President Barack Obama has accused Russian-backed separatists of continuing to block the international investigation into the crash of flight MH17

Israeli bombing in Gaza has intensified, with the Palestinian death toll now reaching more than 500, mostly civilians. Artillery, tanks and jets

On Sunday, July 20 the Gaza Strip suffered its highest death toll since Israel’s offensive began. A day later euronews visited the Abu Alaa market

Travellers crossing international borders by plane do not, generally, consider whether they might fly over dangerous areas. The destruction of

Moscow has gone on the offensive over accusations that pro-Russian separatists were responsible for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight

In what has become a traditional annual event on the island of Malta, Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja has drawn thousands to his summer concert. The

Didier Burnod spoke with our special envoy in Gaza, Valérie Gauriat. Burnod: “The bombardments don’t seem to have lost any of their intensity

Set in the 1920’s on the opulent French Riviera, Woody Allen’s latest movie ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ is a romantic comedy starring Colin Firth. He

A major installation by key avant-garde artist ==Otto Piene= has gone on show in Berlin coinciding with his death. He died on the eve of the

The Israeli city of Tel Aviv has been coming under fire from Gaza. Two rockets are reported to have been intercepted mid-air. Israeli officials

Nineteen migrants have died, allegedly from suffocation, while travelling in a crowded boat en route from North Africa to Italy. It is believed

Costa Concordia is being towed away from the Italian island where it struck a rock and sank killing 32 people two-and-a-half-years ago. A convoy of

Karl Albrecht, the co-founder of budget supermarket Aldi, has died at the age of 94. The store was born when Karl and his brother Theo took over

Everybody knows flying drones, but have you seen a diving one? A new robotic submarine can be controlled with an Android smartphone to carry out

The Forbes family has agreed to give up control of its media empire and sell a majority stake to a Hong Kong based group. A collection of investors

Huawei Technologies, the world’s second largest telecom equipment maker, has said it will achieve sustainable growth in 2014. The Chinese company

1918: November 11 After hostilities were brought to an end on the Eastern Front, with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918

Armistice signed by Ottoman and British leaders ending hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre of war. Led to the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire

1918: October 24-November 3 Following the loss of 300,000 soldiers at the Battles of Caporetto in 1917, morale in the Italian army was low. Under

1918: September 26-October 17 The Hindenburg Line consisted of six defensive systems established during the winter of 1916-1917 from Arras to

1918: September 19-25 The British forces’ progress on the Sinai and Palestine front had been hampered by the Spring Offensive of 1918, with the

France’s Foreign Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, has hit out at the “unacceptable” anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish businesses during demonstrations in