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The Hague // Over 10,000 unaccompanied migrant children have disappeared in Europe, the EU police agency Europol said on Sunday, fearing man...
LONDON // Terry Wogan, the Irish broadcaster whose warm brogue and sly, gentle humour made him a star of British television and radio for de...
Geneva // Representatives of Syria's main opposition body arrived in Switzerland on Saturday for UN-organised peace talks even as doubts...
AYVACIK // Turkish coastguard officials recovered the bodies of women and children washed up on a beach yesterday after another refugee boat...
It was the disaster that injected a shot of realism into space exploration ambitions and whose impact is still being felt today. Thirty year...
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BEIRUT // Indirect peace talks aimed at resolving Syria's five-year conflict began on Friday in Geneva - but without the participation o...
US economic growth braked sharply towards the end of last year. Americans spent less and businesses stepped up efforts to reduce the amount ...
Pressure is building on Google over its tax payments with a "British cabinet minister Patrick… http://ift.tt/20y9mBo 3Novices Euro...
The last classic Land Rover Defender has rolled off the production line, nearly 70 years after they first hit the road, or the field, the ba...
France's economy remains lacklustre. Growth for the final three months of last year was 0.2 percent slightly down from the previous quar...
In a bold move the Bank of Japan has unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero to try to stimulate the economy. That means comme...
JERUSALEM // The United States and Britain have monitored secret sorties and communications by Israel's air force in a hacking operation...
Earth has just experienced the hottest year since records began, according to a report by the United Nations. Greenhouse gases are behind th...
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Brussels is pushing for new rules to reduce tax avoidance. Among the planned measures EU countries would be able to tax company profits in s...
Oil prices continue to get a bit of a boost from the idea that major producers - particularly Russia - may cooperate to cut production. Russ...
The number of people out of work in Spain fell by a record amount last year according to figures released on Thursday. However the unemploym...
The welcome I reach the hotel easily by the airport coach, which stops on the road behind the hotel. As I make my way into the hotel throug...
Social media giant Facebook has bucked the trend of underwhelming tech results of Apple and eBay and more than doubled its profits in the fo...
No change in the cost of borrowing is expected from the Federal Reserve as the US central bank's policymakers end their two day meeting ...
China's slowdown is even having an impact on technology giant Apple. The company has forecast its "first revenue drop in 13… ht...
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS // Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo Thursday pleaded "not guilty" to four charges of crimes against ...
STOCKHOLM // Sweden is preparing to deport up to 80,000 of last year's record number of asylum seekers, interior minister Anders Ygeman ...
A school in north-eastern England is reprimanding parents who do not get dressed before bringing their children to school, warning that it s...
Shelina Janmohammed My heart sank when I woke last week to front-page newspaper headlines that the UK prime minister had said Muslim women ...
Moving and learning - learning by moving. It sounds like a paradox but it is a new way which is being developed for students to learn. It is...
Toyota remains the world's top carmaker for the fourth year running. Its sales worldwide last year totaled 10.15 million vehicles. That ...
Paying for the sins of the past - Royal Bank of Scotland is setting aside more billions to cover legal costs, compensation for mis-selling o...
*Interview with David Palmer-Jones, President of the European Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services (FEAD) and CEO of Su...
ROME // Hassan Rouhani wraps up his visit to Italy on Wednesday before heading to France on the second leg of a trip signalling the dramatic...
COPENHAGEN // A Danish man who returned from a trip to Mexico and Brazil has tested positive for the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus, but is...
Ian is seven years of age. He suffers from chronic encephalitis which affects his language and movement - his motor skills. Now a Swedish…...
This year on Space we'll be following a mission called ExoMars. It's the first to look for direct signs of life on the red planet. T...
Crude prices headed up on Tuesday - rising five percent - on hopes that OPEC and non-OPEC producers may be edging closer to a deal to pump l...
With sanctions lifted, Italy and Iran have signed 17 billion euros worth of business deals during President Hassan Rouhani's visit to Ro...
Apple is expected to report sales of its iPhones increased by a little more than one percent in the final quarter of last year when it annou...
EasyJet's shares fell on Tuesday after it said demand for travel was dampened by security fears in the later part of last year following...
Paris // Tempers flared in Paris as striking taxi drivers blocked key roads and set fire to tyres on a “Black Tuesday” which saw simultaneou...
Collapsing oil prices continue to hammer the value of the Russian currency - the rouble - as inflation there pushes upwards and people cut b...
German sportswear maker Adidas is said to be pulling out of its sponsorship deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations...
Once upon a time, in a land far away, an ancient storyteller spun a fairy tale that would for thousands of years captivate those who heard i...
In this edition of Real Economy, we take you on a journey to discover how our waste can become sustainable gold - powering the circular econ...
_Abdeluheb Choho, Amsterdam Vice Mayor_ Amsterdam is not a circular city today. We have just started into moving towards becoming a circular...
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