Japan

Chocolate sushi for your Valentine!

Nestle presents sushi-shaped KitKat chocolate in a light-hearted bid to attract more Valentine's Day shoppers

7 February 2017

Mexico

Mexico's bus tour of "corrupt hot-spots"

It is a bus tour with a difference.

7 February 2017

USA

Goodbye Granddad - a long-living lungfish

The longest-living fish in captivity has been put down due to ill health.

7 February 2017

Denmark

World's biggest yacht is shipshape and 'nearly' ready to sail

A Russian tycoon is about to take delivery of the world’s biggest yacht.

7 February 2017

Myanmar

Fed up horoscope writer tells Tauruses to stop complaining

Many of us have had a bad day at the office.

2 February 2017

USA

Groundhog Day: a mixture of the profane and pure fun

America is to get six more weeks of winter after 2017's Groundhog Day forecast. Thanks a bunch, Phil.

2 February 2017

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No more Mr. Tough Guy - endurance race bows out after 30 years

If an 8-mile cross-country run on a muddy route wasn’t tough enough, add a lengthy and challenging obstacle course and freezing cold muddy waters in the British winter, and you have the “Tough Guy”…

30 January 2017

World News

The end is nigh 'Doomsday Clock' ticks closer to midnight

'Doomsday Clock' ticks closer to the end of the world

27 January 2017

China

Anger after rat is strung up by its limbs

Images of a rat being strung-up by its limbs in China have been condemned as ‘heartbreaking’ by animal rights campaigners.

26 January 2017

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Russian woman drags two tram cars

A Russian power lifter has managed to pull two tram cars full of passengers.

26 January 2017

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Skating on frozen water in The Netherlands

Canals and lakes across The Netherlands have frozen over in a cold snap.

24 January 2017

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Hot air balloons in Switzerland

Château-d’Oex in Switzerland is hosting its International Balloon Festival until January 29.

23 January 2017

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Belarus Ice Swimming

A winter swimming championship was held in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. The competition attracted participants from across Europe.

23 January 2017

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And also... a German snowman, a frozen fox and an Irishman in the pub

Every Friday journalists from euronews’ various language teams choose a selection of stories from Europe and beyond which did not make the international…

13 January 2017

Italy

See Italy's first capsule hotel

Rooms are 4 metres square and cost 8 euros an hour - or 25 for a whole night.

12 January 2017

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And Also... man travels 5km on roof of his stolen car, singing Italian foetuses cause controversy

Every Friday journalists from euronews’ various language teams choose a selection of stories from Europe and beyond which did not reach the international…

6 January 2017

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Thousands brush up on their calligraphy in Tokyo to start the new year

Thousands of people brushed up their calligraphy as they gathered and competed in the traditional Kaikizome (literally ‘first writings’) of the New Year on Thursday (January…

6 January 2017

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Japan: Sushi restaurant purchases bluefin tuna for over $614,000

A popular sushi restaurant in Tokyo, Sushizanmai, purchased a 212 kilogram bluefin tuna for 72 million yen (614,016 USD) at Japan’s iconic Tsukiji fish market during its first auction of the year on T

6 January 2017

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Hundreds take New Year plunge in Dutch seaside town

Hundreds of people plunged into the icy cold North Sea as part of a New Year’s Day tradition in the Dutch seaside town of Scheveningen.

2 January 2017

USA

Los Angeles' iconic Hollywood landmark vandalised

The Hollywood sign erected on the hills overlooking Los Angeles has been vandalised as part of a New Year prank

2 January 2017