‘Money, Money, Money’, a Swedish group once sang. But when it comes to counterfeit cash, suspected fraudsters in Italy are being blamed for 90

Atletico Madrid booked their ticket into the champions league last 16 following a 4-0 thrashing of Olympiakos in Group A’s penultimate round of

French President François Hollande has called for Egypt to continue what he called its “democratic transition process” as he welcomed President Abdel

The controversial awarding of double points for the final race of the Formula one season will be dropped for the 2015 campaign. Standing starts

Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato has resigned after a judge said she had “personally profited” from crimes allegedly committed by her ex-husband

Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have regrouped and laid fresh claim to a protest site cleared by police, refusing to give up on their dream of

Across the United States there have been new protests over a grand jury’s decision not to charge a white police officer with killing an unarmed black

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has presented his 21 billion euro reserve, an emergency fund created by the Commission and the

They do not normally carry weapons but terrorism fears in Norway ahead of Christmas mean that police on patrol will be armed for the next four weeks

Restoration work is underway at Rome’s Colosseum after a Russian tourist carved a 25 centimetre high ‘K’ onto a wall of the amphitheatre. The

Spanish police say they have broken up a human trafficking ring smuggling people fleeing the Syrian conflict into Europe. At least 18 arrests were

The leading boats in the Volvo Ocean Race have reached the half-way point of the second leg from Cape town to Abu Dhabi. After one week of racing

Lionel Messi continues to break goal-scoring records. Three days after reaching a record 253 goals in La Liga, courtesy of a hat-trick

OPEC meets this week in what many are calling its most important summit in a decade, with a falling oil price and signs world demand may be on the

President of the European Commission (EC) Jean-Claude Juncker has unveiled details of a 315 billion-euro investment plan to kick-start Europe’s

German chancellor Angela Merkel is not one to shun a fight, and her governing coalition is to present a law making 30% female board members an

The Russian air force has sent 14 fighter jets to Crimea, the territory it annexed from Ukraine in March. As they landed in Belbek, a senior

Latvia has expressed concern over a deal deepening cooperation between Russia and Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region. During a visit to the

Already being dubbed “Milka-Cola” by some Coca-Cola’s new venture into the milk market, Fairlife, has been launched. Coke will hope there will not

The French city of Grenoble is banning billboard advertising. It will instead open community spaces and plant trees. City authorities say they have

Angelina Jolie was joined by members of the British Armed Forces on the red carpet in London for the premiere of the film “Unbroken” which she

From the brink of bankruptcy to the bin. Far from being rewarded for saving travel company Thomas Cook boss Harriet Green is being given the boot a

Q3 profits at Russia’s Sberbank are down by 24% with the bank doubling its provisions for loan losses. The state-controlled bank is one of those

The cognoscenti of art in Azerbaijan were at the Museum of Modern Art in Baku for a trip back to the stone age. One of the country’s leading

Denis Mukwege, has been awarded the 2014 European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. For 15 years, the gynaecologist has treated

ISIL insurgents clashed with Kurdish peshmerga forces south of Iraq’s strategic oil city of Kirkuk late on Tuesday (November 25) and continuing into

The Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has arrived in France for a two-day visit which looks set to be dominated by security issues concerning

In Morocco, fresh flooding sparked by heavy rain has left around 36 people dead. All services of the armed forces have been deployed to help