SLOVYANSK , Ukraine: Ukrainian troops moved against pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least two of them in c...
Cornish recognized as British minority
LONDON : The Cornish people are to be recognized as a national minority under a European convention, the British government announced ...
Tiny Pacific nation sues 9 nuclear-armed powers
NEW YORK: The tiny Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands is taking on the United States and the world’s eight other nuclear-armed nati...
Envoy: Terrorism common enemy of India and Pakistan
NEW DELHI: Pakistan says it is “encouraged” by comments from India’s election frontrunner Narendra Modi who stressed cooperation with f...
Perugia shortlisted for European Youth Capital
The medieval Umbrian capital of Perugia has been shortlisted for the title of European Youth Capital 2017. Perugia, a popular unive...
Mayor wants museum to remember Mussolini
The mayor of Predappio, the birthplace of Benito Mussolini in central Italy, has called for a museum to open to remember the fascist le...
Berlusconi signs up for community service
Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi officially signed up to his community service Wednesday, agreeing to a court document w...
Italian factory shutdown threatens 4,000 jobs
A blast furnace at an Italian steel plant was shut down on Thursday with 4,000 jobs at risk despite a call by Pope Francis for official...
Beauty tips for the election season
The Great Indian election is here and it's time to Face the Nation for several thousand candidates and volunteers who are going to ...
Neo-Nazi Hitler party shocks French village
The mayor of a small village in eastern France was forced to explain this week how he ended up giving the green light for a neo-Nazi pa...
One in five French workers is a civil servant
New data out this week shows France’s civil service has continued its nearly unbroken chain of growth since 1980. The figures, however,...
French minister Royal denies ban on cleavage
Ségolène Royal, France’s new minister for the environment has been forced to deny reports on Thursday that she had introduced some stri...
Spain 'fiddles numbers' to shave jobless rate
Spain has managed to push down its unemployment rate to 25.77 percent — by adjusting the formulas used to establish the country's j...
Spanish fascists make Euro election bid
The list of candidates submitted by two far-right Spanish parties for May's European parliamentary elections includes people who we...
Catalonia chief vows to call independence poll
Catalonia's political chief Artur Mas vowed on Wednesday to push ahead with a vote on independence from Spain on November 9th, flyi...
Spain records highest growth figure in six years
Spain's economy grew at the fastest pace in six years in the first quarter of 2014, the central bank said on Thursday in a prelimin...















