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Seagull attacks Pope’s dove released on Holocaust Day
When Pope Benedict XVI tried to release a dove as a symbolic appeal for peace on Holocaust Day, it led to quite a flap. A...
Silvio Berlusconi praises Benito Mussolini on Holocaust Memorial Day
Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has stoked controversy by praising Benito Mussolini on Holocaust Memorial Day - despite Il Duce's anti-Jewish laws. Benito Mussolini had...
Bulgaria votes in Belene nuclear power plant referendum
Bulgaria is set to vote in a referendum on whether a new nuclear power plant should be built. The opposition Socialist party called the vote...
Milos Zeman wins Czech Republic’s presidential election
Former Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman has won the presidential election - the first time the position has been decided by direct popular vote. Milos...
Czech election: Milos Zeman faces Karel Schwarzenberg in second round of presidential run-off
Czech voters have been casting their ballots in the presidential election, the first time the role has been elected by direct popular vote. Former Czech...
Riot police raid breaks up Greek metro strike
Riot police have stormed a metro train depot in Greek capital, Athens, breaking up a sit-in by striking workers. The workers had been on the...
Annette Schavan, German education minister, faces plagiarism inquiry
University of Duesseldorf is to investigate allegations that German Education Minister Annette Schavan plagiarized parts of her doctoral thesis in 1980. The University of Duesseldorf...
Hugo Chavez El Pais picture withdrawn as it turns out to be fake
Spanish newspaper El Pais has apologized after publishing a photo of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez which it said has turned out to be a...
Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Poland dies aged 83
Cardinal Jozef Glemp, who headed the Roman Catholic Church in Poland for more than two decades, has died in hospital in Warsaw at the...
David Cameron pledges in/out referendum on EU
UK’s PM David Cameron has said the British people must "have their say" on Europe as he pledged an in/out referendum if the Conservatives...
Lindsay Sandiford sentenced to death for Bali drug trafficking
Lindsay Sandiford, a 56-year-old British grandmother, has been sentenced to death by firing squad in Indonesia for drug trafficking. Lindsay Sandiford was arrested at Bali's...
Elysee Treaty 50th anniversary celebrations in France and Germany
France and Germany are marking the 50th anniversary of Elysee Treaty that helped to reconcile the two former foes. The German and French leaders have...
Angela Merkel’s coalition loses Lower Saxony election
Germany’s SPD, Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-left opponents, has won a narrow victory in elections in the state of Lower Saxony. The Social Democrats and the...
Austria votes mandatory conscription in nationwide referendum
According to preliminary results from a nationwide referendum, Austrians have voted by a wide margin to retain compulsory military service. Some 60% voted to keep...
Lower Saxony election: CDU’s David McAllister hoping for re-election
Voters in the German state of Lower Saxony are going to the polls in a regional election seen as a bellwether for national elections...
Athens rally against neo-fascist party Golden Dawn
Some 3,000 people have taken part in a rally in Athens to protest against the rise of Greece’s neo-fascist party Golden Dawn. The protest, which...
Ahmed Dogan attacked by gunman during televised conference in Sofia
A man put a gun to the head of Ahmed Dogan, the leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party, during a televised conference in Sofia. Ahmed...
Horse at Tesco prank in contaminated meat scandal goes viral
Two pranksters dressed up as a pantomime horse were thrown out of a UK Tesco supermarket after trotting around the frozen beef burger aisle...
PKK activists funerals attended by tens of thousands of Kurds
Tens of thousands of Kurds have attended the funerals in Diyarbakir, Turkey, of three female Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris last week. Crowds chanted...
London helicopter crash UPDATE: Two dead and 13 injured in Vauxhall crane accident
Two people have been killed and thirteen injured when a helicopter crashed into a crane in central London. Police said the helicopter had hit the...
London: Helicopter crashes into crane on top of a building
A helicopter has crashed into a crane at a building site in south London. Police said it appeared the helicopter had hit the crane on...
German economy slows sharply in 2012
Germany’s economy grew by 0.7 percent in 2012, a sharp slowdown on the previous year Germany’s economy grew by 0.7% in 2012, a sharp...
Nadia Eweida discriminated by British Airways over her Christian beliefs
Nadia Eweida, a British Airways employee, suffered discrimination at work over her Christian beliefs, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. Judges ruled Nadia...
Ernst Strasser sentenced to four years in jail for bribe-taking
Former Austrian Interior Minister and Euro MP Ernst Strasser has been sentenced to four years in jail after being convicted of bribe-taking. The conservative Austrian...
No Pants Subway Ride 2013: London and New York
No Pants Day started off as a prank that bemused a few embarrassed commuters but has since grown into a global phenomenon. And despite the...
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