2016-03-04

Culture news

Manish Arora shows his sweet surrealist side at Paris Fashion week

Paris Fashion week took a turn down the road of weird and wonderful with the Hells Bells collection by Indian fashion designer Manish Arora. The New

04/03/2016

Cinema

Spirits Homecoming: an homage to South Korea's sex slaves

Spirits Homecoming is a South Korean film about comfort women and is based on the horrors experienced by so-called sex slaves in Japanese military

04/03/2016

Europe News

EU plan to save Schengen unveiled ahead of crunch summit

It is a last-ditch attempt to save Schengen. The European Commission has unveiled a timetable to restore the fraying open border zone by the end of

04/03/2016

World News

And also... Lenin becomes Lennon; an Oscar at the airport and more

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

04/03/2016

Greece

Flooding adds to misery of migrants stuck on the Greek-Macedonian border

Heavy rain has flooded parts of a makeshift camp where up to 12,000 people have sought refuge

04/03/2016

Switzerland

Switzerland reveals plans to cut down on immigration amid EU row

Switzerland on Friday unveiled tough draft legislation to impose unilateral curbs on immigration should it fail to agree with the European Union by

04/03/2016

Economy

Italy's GDP growth remains feeble

It has been confirmed Italy's economy grew by just 0.1 percent in the final three months of last year from the previous quarter.

04/03/2016

Business Series

London Stock Exchange profit jumps, detailed talks about Deutsche Boerse merger continue

The London Stock Exchange Group has reported a 31 percent jump in profit for 2015 and said detailed discussions are continuing with Germany's Deutsche Boerse about a merger.

04/03/2016

Ukraine

Jamala: Ukrainian Eurovision song is about remembering past not politics of present

04/03/2016

France

Hollande and Merkel stand together on migration ahead of EU-Turkey summit

The French and German leaders presented a united front over Europe’s migration crisis on Friday, ahead of an emergency EU summit with Turkey on

04/03/2016

France

Air France plane narrowly avoids collision with drone

04/03/2016

Brazil

Corruption investigators detain former Brazilian President Lula da Silva for questioning

Investigators are looking into claims that Lula benefited from illegal kickbacks at the state oil company Petrobras

04/03/2016

Honduras

Honduras: clashes break out after death of activist Berta Cáceres

Clashes broke out in the Honduran capital following a student protest over the murder of prominent environmental rights activist Berta Cáceres

04/03/2016

Cinema

Anomalisa - a heartrending drama that touches the human within us

This week in Cinema Box, a highly unconventional stop-motion animation: ‘Anomalisa’ – directed and produced by Americans Charlie Kaufman and Duke

04/03/2016

Cinema

London is smashing in the high-octane action film London Has Fallen

When the British Prime Minister dies under mysterious circumstances, his funeral in the capital is a must-attend event for leaders of the Western

04/03/2016

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Gutting the gun store

Surveillance video footage shows masked robbers breaking into and pillaging a Houston gun store.

04/03/2016

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Political inspiration

Artist Filippo Minelli set off colourful smoke bombs in the courtyard of London’s Somerset House on Wednesday (March 2) as part of a new exhibition

04/03/2016

My Europe Series

Victims of domestic violence struggle for justice

Far too many women, and it _is_ more often than not women, are subjected to domestic violence. Some wives and mothers are driven to breaking point and kill their tormentors. Can they expect justice? D

04/03/2016

Turkey

Turkish police targeted in two separate attacks

Turkish police have been the target of two assaults in as many days. Two female assailants were killed following gunfire and grenade attacks in

04/03/2016

Israel

Palestinian woman shot dead after car ramming attack - Israeli army

Israeli forces say they have shot dead a Palestinian woman who drove a car into an Israeli soldier in the West Bank on Friday. He is not thought to

04/03/2016

Cyprus

Immigrant art project wins Saatchi gallery prize

04/03/2016

Hungary

Can you be punished for committing a "crime" in a country where it is legal?

Gabor Tanacs examines the case of a Hungarian owner of a brothel in Germany to examine the reality of cross-border justice. ‘Elizabeth’ runs a

04/03/2016

USA

Detroit: Trump forced onto defensive against anxious Republicans

Donald Trump was on the defensive in the Detroit debate. Currently leading in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, he was

04/03/2016

USA

Republican debate turns into cock fight – Trump defends size of his man parts

04/03/2016

My Europe Series

Know your rights when your company sends you to work in the EU

This week’s question on UTalk comes from Isabelle in Toulouse, France: “Why does the EU regulation on seconded workers regularly stir controversy in

04/03/2016

Brazil

Brazil's lower house speaker to go on trial for corruption

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday voted to allow the Lower House speaker Edward Cunha to go on trial for corruption. He is accused of taking bribes

04/03/2016

France

German media claim French 'downplayed' nuclear incident

Reports in German media claim a incident at a French nuclear power plant close to the border with Germany was downplayed by the French authorities

04/03/2016

USA

Most distant galaxy ever seen - 13.4 billion light years away

Scientists at the space agency NASA say the Hubble telescope has detected a galaxy 13.4 billion light years away. It’s the most distant galaxy ever

04/03/2016

Honduras

Prominent rights activist shot dead in Honduras

A prominent environmental rights activist was shot dead in Honduras on Thursday prompting protests in the capital Tegucigalpa. Berta Caceres was

04/03/2016

France

Talks in Paris fail to make progress on implementing a peace deal in eastern Ukraine

Talks in Paris aimed at getting the fragile Minsk peace agreement back on track in eastern Ukraine failed to make progress on Thursday ahead of a

04/03/2016