Eurozone crisis set to get worse before it gets better
With austerity measures in place, the markets demand to know where the growth is. But no one seems to have the answerThose who watched Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the spring meeting of the International...
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French presidential election live resultsChris Fenn
View ArticleFrench presidential election live results
French presidential election live resultsChris Fenn
View ArticleWalmart investigates claims of cover-up over $24m in Mexican bribes
New York Times claims the retailer's senior executives hushed up an internal report into bribery allegationsWalmart is investigating claims that its executives hushed up an internal report that found...
View ArticleBriton dies in fall from Magaluf hotel balcony
Benjamin Harper is the second Briton to die at the same Spanish resort in three daysA British tourist has died after falling from a balcony at a hotel, the second Briton to die at the same Spanish...
View ArticleSyria: gunfire as UN observers monitor ceasefire – video
Footage obtained from social media purportedly shows ceasefire violations in Douma and Homs as UN observers tour the streets
View ArticleRussians rally support for Orthodox church over Pussy Riot controversy
Thousands pray outside Moscow's main cathedral, the scene of jailed punk band's alleged hooliganism during anti-Putin protestTens of thousands prayed outside Moscow's main cathedral on Sunday to show...
View ArticleFrench lacking in joie de vivre as dutiful voters fear it's all plus ça change
Election clouded in Gallic indifference but not of the cliched kind – the country now seems genuinely despondent about politicsOutside the polling station in the socially mixed part of the third...
View ArticleAmsterdam train collision investigated – video
Dutch rail authorities are investigating the cause of a head-on collision between two commuter trains on Saturday. The incident left 125 injured, more than 50 of them seriously. One woman was on the...
View ArticleUN to investigate plight of US Native Americans for first time
The UN human rights inquiry will focus on the living conditions of the 2.7 million Native Americans living in the USThe UN is to conduct an investigation into the plight of US Native Americans, the...
View ArticleF1: the controversial Bahrain Grand Prix - in pictures
As the grand prix in Bahrain goes ahead despite continuing protests over human right's abuses, we look at the events in and around the circuit on race dayJonny Weeks
View ArticleAung San Suu Kyi's party to boycott Burma parliament opening
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy will not attend opening session in dispute over wording of MPs' oathBurma's main opposition movement says Aung San Suu Kyi and the rest of her party's...
View ArticleIran claims to be rebuilding US drone – video
Iranian military officials have announced that they have reverse-engineered the US surveillance drone they captured last year and are building a copy
View ArticleCheckpoint Charlie's new cold war with the hot dog vendors
Where spies once came in from the cold, at the crossing point in Berlin, property interests and history are in conflictIt was described as the tensest spot in the cold war, a crossing between East and...
View ArticleMærsk Mc-Kinney Møller obituary
Shipping magnate who built the world's greatest shipping empire and Denmark's biggest corporation, AP Møller-Mærsk groupMærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, who has died aged 98, transformed a successful family...
View ArticleMake Poverty History 2 to launch in 2013
Charities to launch new Make Poverty History campaign on hunger to coincide with David Cameron taking G8 chairBritain's leading aid groups will seek to recreate the high point of the international...
View ArticleChina's leaders are cracking down on Bo Xilai and his Chongqing model | Lin Chun
The campaign against Bo Xilai is not motivated by a desire to stop corruption or solve a murder case, but by a deep political conflictWhy is it that when Ai Weiwei is detained, the west assumes that he...
View ArticleMartin Rowson on the Bahrain Grand Prix controversy – cartoon
Formula One celebrates while anti-monarchy protesters continue their fight on the streets of ManamaMartin Rowson
View ArticleFrench election provokes jokes, japes and cryptic messages on Twitter
Country's attempt to impose a blackout on disclosing results has spurred derision and defiance on the microblogging networkFrance's efforts to prevent premature leaks of its first-round presidential...
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