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The appointment of two little-known figures to the new top jobs in the EU has drawn a mixed response.
Belgian PM Herman van Rompuy was named President of the European Council, while Briton Baroness Catherine Ashton was made EU foreign affairs...
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At least 37 BBC executives earn more than the Prime Minister, it was revealed yesterday, as the corporation disclosed the scale of its senior salaries for the first time.
The broadcaster said that its 107 “most senior decision makers” earn £22...
After months of complaints by European dairy farmers angry over low prices, protesters in Brussels on Monday poured milk onto the streets, hurled eggs and other missiles, and started fires that filled the air with black smoke.
Police helicopters...
At London’s Tate Modern art gallery, a spotlight shines on a blank space where a photograph of a nude Brooke Shields, age 10, was supposed to hang. A sign warns, “This room contains images that some visitors may find challenging.” The...
Robbers used a helicopter Wednesday in a spectacular raid of a cash depot in Stockholm, breaking into the building through the roof and flying off with bags of cash, police and witnesses said.
The pre-dawn heist stunned police in the Swedish capital,...
What good is it to be right if you’re all alone? President Nicolas Sarkozy of France wants his country to lead the world by example in restricting bankers’ bonuses. As usual, Mr. Sarkozy is deploying populism in his latest campaign to “moralize...
As I stand inside, helmet on head, shoulder to shoulder with a group of slightly nervous strangers, the refrain of a Merle Travis song keeps running through my head: “It’s dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew/ the dangers are double, the pleasures are...
A man has died and more than 150 people have taken ill on board a cruise liner berthed in Invergordon, Easter Ross.
The vomiting bug, norovirus, is thought to have taken hold on the Marco Polo, which is touring the UK and Ireland with 769 passengers...
Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Queensland, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting Australia may have a more complex prehistoric past. The three dinosaurs, the first...
The Serious Fraud Office is embroiled in a fiasco that may inadvertently have settled the fate of José Sócrates, the Portuguese Prime Minister, and determined the outcome of that country’s elections in September.
Beyond Portuguese domestic...
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