2016-11-29

British former football coach Barry Bennell was charged on Tuesday with eight historical offences of sexual assault against a boy under the age of 14.

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

An employee of Germany’s domestic intelligence service (BfV) has been arrested over a suspected Islamist plot to bomb the agency’s Cologne Headquarters.

Argentina’s triumphant Davis Cup team returned home to a hero’s welcome on Tuesday.

Italy’s Emma Morano, thought to be the world’s oldest person and the last to be born in the 19th century, celebrated her 117th birthday on Tuesday.

A fire at a dormitory for schoolgirls in southern Turkey on Tuesday left twelve people dead, eleven of them teenagers.

Investor confidence in Italian banks ability to raise money to cover bad debt takes a tumble as fears over government's future weigh on market.

International investors have turned out in force for the Tunisia 2020 conference.

Hundreds of fans have gathered at Chapecoense’s stadium, the Condá Arena in the city of Chapecó, to mourn the players and staff killed in a plane crash in…

The President of the Bolivian Football Association was arrested this week on corruption charges.

The Palestinian President has opened the first congress of his Fatah party for seven years. An estimated 1,300 delegates gathered to elect new leaders and discuss longer-term policy.

International friends and admirers of Fidel Castro were in Havana on Tuesday to pay their last respects to the leader of Cuba’s revolution.

For only the third time in the history of the competition a tiebreaker will be needed to decide the World Chess Championships.

We remain on our European road.

The German flag carrier says an estimated 1,706 flights will be cancelled on Tuesday and Wednesday due to a long-running pay dispute between management and pilots.

It is all about limiting climate change and boosting sustainability.

Better than expected GDP and Income data from US suggest Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in December.

‘I Am Bolt’ is a new documentary about the athlete known as “the fastest man alive”: Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.

In Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, a giant protective shield is slowly being moved into place a couple of feet at a time.