Portuguese author and journalist Miguel Sousa Tavares is being investigated for calling President Anibal Cavaco Silva "a clown" in an interview.
Posted 8 minutes 21 seconds ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

UK security service MI5 asked London street attack suspect Michael Adebolajo if he wanted to work for them half a year ago, a childhood friend claims.
Posted 14 minutes 20 seconds ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

China and Switzerland sign a memorandum of understanding on a free-trade agreement, the first such deal for China with a major Western economy.
Posted 32 minutes 21 seconds ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

A dancer alleged to have had paid sex as a minor with Italy's ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi tells a court she lied to investigators in 2010.
Posted 2 hours 54 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

A Spanish judge orders a new investigation into the tax affairs of Princess Cristina after an earlier subpoena for questioning in an embezzlement case against her husband was dropped.
Posted 5 hours 21 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

A Roman Catholic parish priest at an elite French ski resort is stripped of his functions for refusing to renounce Freemasonry.
Posted 5 hours 27 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

Reinforcements of specially trained police are being sent to Stockholm after five nights of unprecedented rioting in the capital's suburbs.
Posted 6 hours 14 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

Food lovers and businessmen attend Sarajevo's first ever halal food fair, set up in response to a rise in demand for halal food products in the wider Balkans region and beyond in recent years.
Posted 6 hours 26 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

RAF Typhoon jets are launched to investigate an incident involving a civilian plane from Pakistan within UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence says.
Posted 9 hours 17 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

The wife of a soldier murdered in south-east London on Wednesday says she expected her husband to be safe in the UK.
Posted 9 hours 23 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

Gibraltar is accepted as a full member of Uefa after a vote at the European football confederation's congress.
Posted 9 hours 35 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

An intimate love story between two young women receives rave reviews in Cannes days before the winner of the Palme d'Or is announced.
Posted 9 hours 35 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

The Turkish parliament approves controversial legislation to restrict the sale and advertising of alcohol.
Posted 9 hours 52 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

Czech police say that an American man suspected of killing a family of four in Brno has been arrested at an airport in Washington.
Posted 9 hours 58 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

In an age when "extremely violent and sadistic imagery is two clicks away", school sex education is struggling to keep pace, suggests a study.
Posted 11 hours 22 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

IMF chief Christine Lagarde is questioned by French prosecutors for a second day over a payout to a tycoon when she was French finance minister.
Posted 11 hours 22 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

A body washed ashore on the Normandy coast is confirmed to be that of a missing French yachtsman.
Posted 12 hours 10 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

Russia's most popular social network, VKontakte, is temporarily blacklisted by mistake - and some users find it blocked.
Posted 12 hours 39 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

The Stockholm fire brigade tackles fires at at least two schools on a fifth night of rioting in the Swedish capital.
Posted 12 hours 39 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

Provides an overview of Ingushetia, including key events and facts about this republic in Russia's North Caucasus.
Posted 13 hours 32 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

Giro d'Italia organisers say Italian cyclist, and former winner, Danilo Di Luca, has tested positive for EPO.
Posted 13 hours 38 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

US photographer Annie Leibovitz wins the 50,000 euro (£40,000) Prince of Asturias award for communication and humanities.
Posted 13 hours 44 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

The cost of energy used to be roughly the same on both sides of the Atlantic, but the US-led revolution in shale oil and gas has sent prices tumbling.
Posted 13 hours 50 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

Heathrow Airport's runways were closed after a plane made an emergency landing.
Posted 14 hours 12 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story

Germany's economy barely grew in the first quarter of the year, figures show, as private consumption helped offset shrinking exports and investment.
Posted 14 hours 18 minutes ago - 05/24/13 - Full Story