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Greece

Confusion over Varoufakis offensive gesture row with Germany

Are the images a fake or are they real? A German TV prankster has “admitted” to faking a video showing Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek finance minister

19/03/2015

World News

Under the radar: stories you may have missed from around the world

Scotland: Disquiet over visit by Mexico President The President of Mexico Enrique Pena Nieto ended his visit to Britain by heading to Aberdeen in

06/03/2015

United Kingdom

Woodpecker and weasel vs the internet

04/03/2015

Germany

Child porn trial halted after German ex-MP pays 5,000 euros

He has paid 5,000 euros and acknowledged he made a mistake. And that is what it took for a court in northern Germany to end the child pornography

02/03/2015

Spain

Samsung Galaxy S6 includes metal case and built-in battery

02/03/2015

Bangladesh

Atheist US blogger killed in machete attack in Bangladesh

A machete-wielding mob has hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. Avijit Roy, A US citizen of Bangladeshi origin, was an atheist

27/02/2015

World News

Under the radar: Stories you might have missed from around the world

Each week our team of international journalists curate stories that haven't hit the headlines, but we think are worth a second look.

27/02/2015

USA

USA adopts new measures to govern internet access

Tough new rules on how the internet should be run have been passed by America’s “Federal Communications Commission”

26/02/2015

Turkey

Former Miss Turkey faces jail for "insulting" Recep Erdogan on Instagram

26/02/2015

World News

Some of the lesser-reported stories from Europe and beyond

Our round up of the stories you may have missed this week from around the globe.

20/02/2015

Business Planet

Riga at the heart of Europe's digital revolution

Start-ups in digital are a stunning success story in Europe's otherwise stagnating economy. As the experiences of many in Latvia show, there is nothing to stop SMEs going global.

20/02/2015

USA

Obama urges tech firms to cooperate in tackling cybersecurity threats

Seeking to combat the terror threat, hackers and spies, President Barack Obama has signed an executive order encouraging tech firms to share data on

14/02/2015

World News

You may have missed: Under-reported stories from Europe and beyond

They didn’t make the international headlines but they captured the imagination of euronews team of international reporters so we have gathered

13/02/2015

USA

Barack Obama's silly Buzzfeed video goes viral

US president Barack Obama appears fairly un-presidential in a new video produced by Buzzfeed to encourage Americans to enrol in an Obamacare health

12/02/2015

Business Planet

Delve into digital: tapping into Europe's online start-up potential

As Europe's economy stagnates the digital sector is soaring, with web-based start-ups such as Yoopies setting the pace

06/02/2015

World News

Sweet tweets as Twitter beats Wall Street revenue targets

Twitter has surpassed Wall Street’s profit and revenue targets boosting shares in one of the world’s top social media services.

06/02/2015

USA

Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht guilty of running vast online drugs trade

The suspected operator of the underground website Silk Road was convicted on Wednesday over his role in orchestrating a scheme enabling around $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoin

05/02/2015

My Europe Series

Shining a light on the Dark Net

Want a fake passport? How about an arsenal of guns? Or just click online and with anonymity assured you could be dealing in drugs. It’s all there in

28/01/2015

World News

Facebook says hackers not to blame for temporary outages of its sites

27/01/2015

World News

Glitter, Yo and messages from the dead: bizarre business successes

23/01/2015