Category Archives: Europe
Ireland change four for Australia
Ireland recall four players including fit-again Sean O’Brien to face Australia in Saturday’s World Cup clash at Eden Park.
‘Breakthrough’ in Belgian talks
The negotiator in Belgium’s political crisis announces a breakthrough in efforts to form a coalition after 15 months without an elected government.
UK sues the European Central Bank
The UK is taking legal action against the European Central Bank over a planned change to European banking rules that could harm the City of London.
Dinosaur found dead in its tracks
A fossil housed for 50 years in a Polish institute is the first dinosaur skeleton preserved with its own footprints, say scientists.
Spain police in sickness protest
Almost the entire police force of a small town in southern Spain go on sick leave in a dispute over unpaid wages.
Menem cleared of arms smuggling
Former Argentine President Carlos Menem is formally cleared of involvement in illegal arms sales to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s.
Men remanded over slavery charges
Four men are remanded in custody charged with slavery offences relating to people found at a travellers’ site in Bedfordshire.
Sex abuse victims seek Pope case
Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests ask the International Criminal Court to investigate the Pope and senior cardinals.
Breivik’s old party slips in vote
The anti-immigrant Progress Party once favoured by right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik loses a third of its vote in local elections in Norway.
