2016-10-05

United Kingdom

UKIP leader resigns after only 18 days

Diane James has resigned as the leader of the pro-Brexit UK political party, UKIP, citing professional and personal reasons.

05/10/2016

Sci-Tech

Piece of coal deciphered as ancient biblical text

A team of scientists at the University of Kentucky working with biblical scholars in Jerusalem have succeeded in revealing the contents of what looks like a lump of…

05/10/2016

USA

Kaine and Pence clash in vice-presidential TV debate

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s vice-presidential nominees have faced off in a punchy one-off TV debate.

05/10/2016

Cuba

Hurricane Matthew sweeps across the Caribbean

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05/10/2016

Business Series

Google takes on Apple and Samsung with its new smart phone

Google has launched a new line in smartphones along with other gadgets designed to take on electronic giants like Apple and Samsung.

05/10/2016

Mexico

Mexico launches "Mexicable" a cable car service with a difference

Mexico has launched its first cable car service as part of a wider public transport system.

05/10/2016

United Kingdom

UKIP loses its leader after only 18 days in the job

Britain’s UK Independence party or UKIP has lost its new leader after only 18 days.

05/10/2016

Russia

US tension over Russian missile deployment to Syria

Russia has raised tensions once again in Syria with it deploying for the first time an S300 surface-to-air missile system to its Tartus naval base in Syria.

05/10/2016

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[Video 360°] Human Tower's rise and fall in Tarragona

Euronews video leads you through the impressive sights of the 26th annual Human Tower Competition in Tarragona in the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia.

05/10/2016

World News

World powers push for more aid for Afghanistan

Fifteen years after the US invasion to oust the Taliban the country remains reliant on international aid and faces a resurgent militant threat.

05/10/2016

Turkey

Turkey shuts more TV stations in post-coup clampdown

Journalists protest after Turkey closes down critical TV station.

05/10/2016

World News

Yahoo "complies with NSA and FBI requests to scan customers' emails" - reports

Yahoo is said to have built a custom-made software program to scan all of its clients’ incoming emails on behalf of the US government.

05/10/2016

World News

UK plans to exempt soliders from European convention on human rights

The government announced the policy change saying that the European convention on human rights (ECHR) was being misused and judgements went beyond their remit.

05/10/2016