Hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed victory in Israel's parliamentary election, shrugging off surprise losses to centre-left challengers and vowing to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. However, Tuesday's vote, which
Asian shares retreated from multi-month highs on Wednesday amid caution as the earnings season gathers pace, with Tokyo stocks falling to three-week closing lows in response to a firm yen. "Asian markets
Prime Minister David Cameron will promise on Wednesday to give Britons a straight referendum choice on whether to stay in the European Union or leave, provided he wins an election in 2015.
Never mind President Barack Obama's inauguration address or what Michelle Obama was wearing at the ball. Was Beyonce lip-synching the U.S. national anthem on Monday, or wasn't she? The Grammy-winning singer remained
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld sent two models dressed as brides alongside his tiny godson down the catwalk on Tuesday in a public show of support for French government plans to legalise same-sex
Meeting on the 50th anniversary of the pact sealing their post-war reconciliation, the leaders of Germany and France vowed to bridge differences on the shape of Europe's currency union and unveil joint
Witnessing friends' vacations, love lives and work successes on Facebook can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness, according to German researchers. A study conducted jointly by two German universities
Cyprus has some of the most successful researchers in Europe, relative to population size, according to European Commission data. A press release by the Commission notes that “relative to population size the
Cyprus Minister of Finance Vassos Sharly said Tuesday that the government will do whatever it takes to meet its fiscal requirements during the first three months of the year. Sharly’s comments came
Eurogroup President Jean Claude Juncker said Monday that an agreement for a Cypriot financial assistance programme will be signed with the new government next March. In his last press conference as Eurogroup
