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EDT: Greece launches new public television after ERT closure
Greece's new public television, EDT, has begun broadcasting news, more than two months after the government shut down the previous state broadcaster, ERT. ERT's 2,700...
Angela Merkel becomes first German chancellor to visit Dachau camp
Angela Merkel has laid a wreath at the former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, in the first such visit to the site by a...
Prince George first official pictures released
Prince George’s first official photographs have been released. Prince George - who is third in line to the British throne - is pictured with his...
Prince William describes Prince George as a little bit of a rascal
Prince William has described his newborn son, Prince George, as a "little bit of a rascal". In his first interview since the birth of Prince...
Princess Diana murdered by a British soldier?
The British police announced last night they were assessing the credibility of new information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed...
Spanish fishermen in Gibraltar protest
Spanish fishermen will protest near the spot where Gibraltar's government has placed 70 concrete blocks, in the disputed waters near the British territory. While Gibraltar...
Princess Diana’s death: Police assessing new information
British police is assessing new information it has recently received about the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed in 1997. Scotland Yard said...
Prince Johan Friso funeral held in small village of Lage Vuursche
The funeral for Prince Johan Friso, who died on Monday following a ski accident, has been held in the Netherlands. Dutch Prince Johan Friso remained...
UBS repays bailout loan from Swiss National Bank after five years
Swiss National Bank has announced a loan it granted to bail out troubled bank UBS in 2008 has been repaid. The development means UBS can...
Mark Sutton dead: Olympic Bond parachutist killed in accident
Mark Sutton, the stuntman who parachuted into the London 2012 opening ceremony as James Bond, has been killed in an accident. Mark Sutton, 42, died...
Eurozone emerges from recession after 18 months of economic contraction
Eurozone has emerged from recession after a record 18 months of economic contraction. According to the Eurostat agency, eurozone’s GDP grew by 0.3% in the...
Jens Stoltenberg’s taxi passengers paid for participation
Norwegian media reported that some of the people in a video of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg posing as a taxi driver were paid for...
Prince Johan Friso dies after a year and a half in coma
Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands has died after a year and a half in a coma following an accident at an Austrian ski...
Laszlo Csatary: Hungarian Nazi war crimes suspect dies at 98
Hungarian Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatary has died at the age of 98 while awaiting trial, his lawyer said. Laszlo Csatary died in a...
Taxi Stoltenberg: Norway PM Jens Stoltenberg works as secret taxi driver
Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg spent an afternoon working incognito as a taxi driver in Oslo, he has revealed. Jens Stoltenberg said he had wanted...
Pope Francis greets Muslims at end of Ramadan
In his Eid message, Pope Francis has urged Christians and Muslims to work together to promote mutual respect, particularly by educating new generations of...
Pope Francis tightens financial supervision at Vatican bank
Pope Francis has stepped up the fight against corruption at the Vatican by strengthening supervision of financial transactions at its internal bank. The Pope issued...
Copenhagen terror alert: Central area evacuated over suspect car
Police evacuated an area of central Copenhagen, Denmark, on Tuesday following the discovery of a parked car with wires attached to it, local television...
Switzerland to change national anthem in 2014
Switzerland considers changing its national anthem as being too old-fashioned, so a new one will be chosen through a competition. The priority is to have...
Ergenekon trial: General Ilker Basbug jailed for life for plotting to overthrow Turkish government
General Ilker Basbug, Turkey's former armed forces chief, has been jailed for life for plotting to overthrow the government, after five years of trials...
Spain considers 50 euros Gibraltar border fee
Spain is considering a 50 euro fee to cross its border with Gibraltar, amid a row over an artificial reef. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo...
Edward Snowden affair: Germany cancels spy pact with US and UK
Germany has decided to cancel a Cold War-era pact with the US and the UK in response to revelations about electronic surveillance operations. Details of...
Silvio Berlusconi angry video message after jail sentence
Silvio Berlusconi has broadcast an angry video message after his jail sentence for tax fraud was upheld by Rome's Court of Cassation, the country's...
Edward Snowden thanks Russia for granting him temporary asylum
Edward Snowden has thanked Russia for granting him temporary asylum, allowing him to leave the Moscow airport where he has been holed up since...
Silvio Berlusconi jail term for tax fraud confirmed
Rome's Court of Cassation has upheld a prison sentence given to former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud. When he was convicted last...
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