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Vienna - The man who shot dead a Chechen refugee in the Austrian capital is still on the run, the Vienna prosecution said Monday, a day after the arrest of a second suspect in Poland was announced.
Polish police arrested a 31-year-old Russian of Chechen origin near Warsaw on Thursday, on suspicion that he took part in the murder of...
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Madrid - The glaciers on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees mountains straddling Spain and France are set to melt completely by mid-century, the daily El Pais on Tuesday quoted an Environment Ministry report as saying.
The glaciers covering parts of the Spanish Pyrenees have lost 88 per cent of their surface since 1894, down to 206...
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Riga - More names joined the race to become Latvia's next prime minister Tuesday as President Valdis Zatlers held a second day of talks with political parties.
MEP Valdis Dombrovskis of the New Era party (JL) emerged as a likely front runner on Monday evening when he was confirmed as his party's nominee for the prime ministerial...
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Rome - AC Milan have described as "lacking foundation" a report Tuesday by the Corriere della Sera newspaper that an Arab investor is about to become a major shareholder in the club.
In a brief note on their web site, Milan denied the sale of club shares, which is controlled by Fininvest, the holding company owned by media...
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Budapest - Hungary's ombudsman for minority affairs called on Tuesday for a "peace plan" to deal with rising ethnic tension in the country, in the wake of a spate of attacks against Roma families.
"There is not only an economic crisis, but also a social crisis in Hungary," Erno Kallai told Hungary's national...
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Berlin - German business confidence slipped more than forecast in February, a key survey released Tuesday said, as signs emerged that the global economic slowdown was getting worse.
In a major test of the economic mood in Europe, the closely- watched Ifo business confidence index came in at 82.6 points this month after posting a...
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Paris - The struggling French economy provided some unexpected good news on Tuesday as the government's statistics office Insee reported that household spending on manufactured goods had increased by 1.8 per cent in January.
The rise was especially marked in durable goods, with a rise of 5.7 per cent over January 2008, sparked by a...
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Warsaw - Poland's Internal Security Agency turned up over a ton of cocaine worth 500 million zloty (136 million dollars) and detained nine people after months of investigation alongside US and Columbian officials, local media reported on Monday.
The nine people included members of Columbian drug cartels and gangs from Western Europe,...
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Brussels - NATO on Monday condemned "in the strongest possible terms" the terrorist attack in Cairo that killed a French woman and injured several Europeans and Egyptian civilians.
"There can be no justification for this cowardly and pointless attack," NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said in a...
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Madrid - Spanish movie professionals, officials and media were Monday euphoric over the Oscar awarded to Penelope Cruz, 34, the first Spanish actress to win an Academy Award.
Cruz took the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in US director Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which was shot in Spain.
Culture Minister...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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