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USA

How healthy are the US presidential candidates?

Sport

Paris Saint Germain ready for improving Arsenal

Paris Saint Germain and new boss Unai Emry begin their quest for European glory on Tuesday when they host Arsenal in their Champions League Group A opener in the French…

China

Chinese student sues over books that call homosexuality a "disorder"

A Chinese student is taking the ministry of education to court over textbooks that say homosexuality that is a “mental disorder”.

United Kingdom

David Cameron steps down as MP for Witney

Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron is to step down as the MP for Witney, seemingly ending his political career.

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Europe News

The Brief from Brussels: Barroso feels heat over US bank role

This is the Brief from Brussels, a roundup of the top stories from Europe’s de facto political capital.

Business Series

Alstom in crisis talks with French government over train making plant

Alstom has begun crisis talks over plans to stop making trains at its plant in Belfort. The French government is insisting the facility remains open.

World

Clinton's pneumonia 'feeds narrative that she is secretive'

Donald Trump has pledged to release details of his own health record after Hillary Clinton’s malaise at the weekend and the news that she had been diagnosed with…

Syria

Five years' talking brings no closer end to Syrian carnage

There is a new ceasefire in Syria, brokered between the US and Russia, respectively the godfathers of the opposition, and regime.

Saudi Arabia

Eid al-Adha celebrated around the world

Muslims around the world celebrate one of the most important festivals of the Islamic calendar on Monday (September 12): Eid al-Adha.

Belgium

Paralympian of the year Marieke Vervoort will choose euthanasia, but not yet...

Marieke Vervoort was named Paralympian of the year in both 2012 and 2015, but that’s not what the media were focussing on ahead of the Belgian’s arrival in Rio.

Adventures

Glide like an eagle over Macedonia

The largely mountainous republic is popular amongst paragliders.

Europe News

Barroso faces EU probe over bank job

Former European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso faces an ethics probe after he joined Goldman Sachs.

World News

What is the state of Juncker's Union now?

“Because our European Union is not in a good state.

Economy

Spain's taxpayers will never get most of bank bailout money back - report

Spain's government has reportedly admitted it will never get back much of the more than 50 billion euros used to bail out the countries' banks according to a report the newspaper El Pais.

Turkey

Bomb injures dozens in Turkey a day after crackdown on Kurdish mayors

Scores of people have been injured in a car bomb attack on local government offices in the southeastern Turkish city of Van.

Sport

Guardiola draws first blood in Manchester derby

Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City laid down an early marker with a deserved 2-1 win over Jose Mourinho’s United in the Manchester derby on Saturday.

Cult

Tommy Hilfiger and Gigi Hadid launch fashion line in New York

Veteran fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger teams up with top model Gigi Hadid to boost his brand at star-studded New York Fashion Week show.

Libya

Haftar's oil blitz could fatally undermine Libyan government

The internationally-recognised Libyan government’s loss of key oil facilities to forces loyal to the eastern administration and General Kalifa Haftar is a potentially serious blow that could starve Tr

USA

Get Well Soon or In Bad Shape: How the internet reacted to Clinton's pneumonia

It started as a cough, it became a stumble and now it’s all over social media.

Business Series

Sanofi and Verily pair up to improve diabetes treatment

French drugmaker Sanofi and the US firm Verily are to invest around $500 million (445 million euros) in a joint venture to help people with diabetes.

Sport

Brilliant Wawrinka upsets the odds to beat Djokovic and win US Open

Stan Wawrinka produced a stunning performance to beat world number one Novak Djokovic and win the US Open for a career third grand slam crown.

Business Series

HP Inc to buy Samsung's printer business to expand into copiers

HP Inc is to buy Samsung's printer business with CEO Dion Weisler saying it will looking to "disrupt" the office copier business.

Cinema

First Filipino win at Venice Film Festival

Filipino director Lav Diaz picks up the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for 'The Woman Who Left', while the runner-up Silver Lion is split between Andrei Konchalovsky for Holocaust drama 'Rai'

Italy

No longer Charlie: Amatrice to sue Charlie Hebdo over cartoon

Amatrice Town Council has filed a petition against French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo for ‘aggravated defamation’ after it published a cartoon showing the victims of last month’s earthquake in I

Markets

European markets hit by worries over US rate hike timing

Monday was a rough day for the world's financial markets amid fears that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates again as early as next week.