Spain

Messi facing 21 months in prison for tax fraud

Spanish media say the Barcelona player was convicted of the multi-million euro fraud along with his father. The sentence can be appealed.

6 July 2016

World News

Oscar Pistorius gets six year sentence for murder

The South African athlete has been sentenced by a court in Pretoria for the murder of his girlfriend in 2013.

6 July 2016

Belgium

Belgian court gives heavy sentences to Verviers ISIL cell members

A Belgian judge on Tuesday sentenced 15 members of an ISIL militant cell, nine of them in absentia, to up to 16 years in prison after convicting them of plotting attacks on targets including Brussels…

5 July 2016

Business Series

EU court perks up McDonald's with MACCOFFEE ruling

McDonald's has won an EU trademark dispute with a Singaporean rival which wanted to use the name MACCOFFEE.

5 July 2016

Germany

Man jailed by German court for stabbing mayor of Cologne

A German court has sentenced a man to 14 years in jail for stabbing the mayor of Cologne the day before Henriette Reker was elected.

2 July 2016

World News

German MPs file war crime lawsuit against Turkey

The Turkish military shelled the town of Cizre in the southeast for five months last year, and then claimed it had killed 600 PKK fighters in its war with the Kurdish militant…

27 June 2016

Italy

Italian mafia boss captured in mountain village

Italy’s second biggest mafia boss has been arrested in Molochia, a small town in the Aspromonte mountains of Calabria.

26 June 2016

Russia

Russian governor Nikita Belykh held over 'large bribe' in corruption probe

The governor of the central Russian Kirov region has been detained, “accused of accepting a 400,000 euro bribe’:http://tass.

25 June 2016

Germany

Germany: jailed nurse suspected of murdering more patients

A former German nurse already serving a life sentence for murdering two patients after injecting them with heart medication, may have killed dozens more, say…

22 June 2016

Germany

Former VW CEO Winterkorn investigated in Germany over market manipulation

Volkswagen is facing more legal challenges over the carmaker’s emissions scandal, from its native Germany.

20 June 2016

Egypt

Egypt court gives Mursi another life sentence over spying case

Egypt’s former President Mohamed Mursi has been given another life sentence after a court in Cairo found him guilty of espionage and leaking state secrets.

18 June 2016

Tunisia

Key trial hearing adjourned in Tunisia

The judge decided to end Thursday's hearing after three hours of angry debate between defense lawyers and the civil prosecution team of Chokri Belaid.

17 June 2016

World News

11 Hindus jailed for life for 2002 Gujarat riots

The massacre occurred during a series of religious riots that flared for two months in the western Indian province.

17 June 2016

World News

Holocaust survivors welcome conviction of Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning

A former Auschwitz guard has been sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted over his role at the Nazi death camp, in what is likely to be one of Germany’s last Holocaust…

17 June 2016

United Kingdom

No charges against Sir Cliff Richard

There will be no further action against British performer Sir Cliff Richard over allegations of historical sex abuse.

16 June 2016

World News

France to deport 20 Russian fans over Euro 2016 violence

France is deporting Alexander Shprygin, the leader of the All-Russia Supporters Union, and 19 other Russian fans.

16 June 2016

South Africa

Pistorius removes prosthetic legs in court

Seen by many as a desperate last bid for leniency for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has removed his prosthetic legs and hobbled in…

15 June 2016

Venezuela

Venezuela: euronews investigates "erased signatures" on referendum petition

Critics of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have accused the country’s National Electoral Council (CNE) of seeking to stall the process of instigating a recall…

15 June 2016

France

Euro 2016: Last chance for Russia after UEFA hands out 'suspended disqualification'.

Russia will be kicked out of Euro 2016 if there is a repeat of the crowd trouble seen against England in Marseilles, UEFA has ruled.

14 June 2016

South Africa

Pistorius must pay for Reeva's death - father

Barry Steenkamp has told the paralympian's murder sentencing hearing in Pretoria that his daughter's death has devastated the family

14 June 2016