2015-09-04

World News

Syrian migrants cycle to Norway border

While many migrants cram onto trains in Hungary or onto flimsy boats in the Mediterranean, it seems others have found an alternative route. This

04/09/2015

Ukraine

Polio: first outbreak in Europe for five years

The World Health Organisation says two young children have been paralysed in the first polio outbreak in Europe for five years. Both cases are in

04/09/2015

Sport

Vuelta: Oliveira solos to stage 13 victory

Nelson Oliveira of the Lampre-Merida team soloed to a maiden Grand Tour victory on stage 13 of the Vuelta a Espana on Friday. The nature of 178

04/09/2015

USA

Iran and Yemen top agenda as Saudi king meets Obama

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has been meeting US President Barack Obama in Washington, with Iran and Yemen topping the agenda. It is the king’s first

04/09/2015

Hungary

Day of chaos hits Hungary as migrants march to Austria

Amid chaotic scenes at Keleti station in Budapest a thousand, mainly Syrian nationals, have set off for Vienna on foot. Keleti is walking! Refugees

04/09/2015

Turkey

Refugee boy's drowning raises hopes for political solutions

The European Union is debating how to reconcile its traditional values with masses of individuals begging for refuge. Meanwhile, criminal networks

04/09/2015

World News

Central European leaders underline opposition to migrant quotas

Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland are voicing their opposition to any EU quota system for accepting migrants. The prime ministers of

04/09/2015

Economy

G20 says US interest rate rise unlikely to harm global growth

The G20’s finance ministers and central bank governors have begun a two-day meeting in the Turkish capital to discuss the global economy. In an early

04/09/2015

Germany

Five injured as fire tears through refugee shelter in Germany

Five people have been taken to hospital after fire broke out at this refugee shelter in the German state of Hesse. One of them is in a serious

04/09/2015

Sport

Iceland beat the Netherlands to close in on first major tournament appearance

Iceland stunned the Netherland’s 1-0 in Amsterdam on Thursday to take a giant step towards qualification for next year’s European Championships in

04/09/2015

Business Planet

Worth its weight in gold: the transeuropean initiative boosting innovation

Boosting innovation and competitiveness through unprecedented transeuropean parternerships is the business of the Worth Project. Business Planet went

04/09/2015

Europe News

Europe faces a "moment of truth" over migrants

04/09/2015

Sport

Judge overturns Brady's four-game 'deflategate' suspension

A federal judge in New York has overturned Tom Brady’s four-game ban handed down by the NFL for his alleged involvement in the “Deflategate” scandal

04/09/2015

Economy

Swiss inflation hits 56-year-low

Inflation in Switzerland has slumped to its lowest level since 1959. Consumer prices posted their biggest monthly fall in 56 years in August, the

04/09/2015

Austria

Austrian lorry: 71 victims suffocated almost immediately say police

Police in Austria say the 71 migrants found dead in an abandoned lorry last week appear to have died of suffocation almost immediately after being

04/09/2015

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: EU calls for urgent summit to tackle migrant crisis

In this week’s Europe Weekly, we look at the worsening migrant crisis. Hungary was in the eye of the storm as nearly 3,000 people were forced to

04/09/2015

World

Road to EU refuge strewn with thorns

After arriving in Greece, then passing through the non-EU Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia, refugees once more reaching European

04/09/2015

Cinema

Boston Globe revelations of child abuse hit the silver screen in the film Spotlight

Actors Mark Ruffalo, Stanley Tucci, Rachel McAdams and director Tom McCarthy were at the Venice Film Festival to present the movie ‘Spotlight’. The

04/09/2015

Economy

US unemployment falls again to 71/2 year low

The latest US jobs data for the month of August shows unemployment at its lowest level for nearly seven and a half years, but the rate of job

04/09/2015

Culture news

Up, Up and Away in Covent Garden with an exhibition of thousands of balloons

Covent Garden in central London is ‘hosting’ a unique exhibition of hundreds of thousands of balloons. It is the work of French photographer Charles

04/09/2015

World News

And also...a one-man protest at Hungary's treatment of refugees, Russia starts school with Chuck Berry, and Pope Francis goes shopping

Every Friday journalists from euronews’ various language teams choose a selection of stories from Europe and beyond which did not reach the

04/09/2015

Syria

Aylan: Kobani awash with tears as the toddler, his brother and mother are buried

The coffins of two toddlers and their mother who drowned trying to reach safety in Greece and a new life in Europe have been taken back to Syria for

04/09/2015

Europe News

Europe faces a "moment of truth" over migrants

The European Commission has confirmed plans for bigger refugee relocation quotas. It follows a visit to the Greek island of Kos by the First Vice

04/09/2015

Cinema

"Love" a controversial film with scenes of non-simulated sex

Sex features heavily in the latest film by Gasper Noe ‘Love’; unsimulated, undisguised and in 3D. Yet the director does not force the audience into

04/09/2015

Hungary

Hungarian 'Freedom Train' stationary for a second day

Hundreds of men, women and children, mostly from Syria, remain stranded on a train in Hungary for a second day. Authorities stopped the train at

04/09/2015

Economy

China's Bohai snaps up Irish aircraft leaser Avolon

An Irish industry leader, the plane leaser Avolon, has accepted an all-cash bid of 6.2 billion euros from China’s Bohai Leasing. Only in December

04/09/2015

World

No going back: ex-National Security Advisor Sandy Berger on the Iran nuclear deal

In the United States, the highly controversial debate about the Iran nuclear deal has mobilised many high-profile opinion makers on both sides of the

04/09/2015

Syria

Syria's Assad may share power with 'healthy' opposition - Putin

Russia – Syria’s closest ally along with Iran during the four-and-a-half year war – is now raising the possibility of President al-Assad sharing

04/09/2015

Afghanistan

Insecurity greets returning Afghan refugees after exile in Pakistan

A growing number of Afghan refugees are heading home after years of exile in Pakistan. Tens of thousands have returned under a UNHCR led voluntary

04/09/2015

Syria

ISIL militants blow up Palmyra's ancient tower tombs

04/09/2015