Unemployment in Cyprus reached 6.2% in 2010, compared to 5.3% in 2009, according to data released by the Statistical Service. According to the results of the Labour Force Survey, which is carried
Black-clad, masked youths battled riot police and attacked banks and luxury stores in central London on Saturday, overshadowing a protest by more than a quarter of a million Britons against government spending
French warplanes have destroyed five Libyan military planes and two helicopters at Misrata air base in the past 24 hours, France's armed forces said. Armed forces spokesman Thierry Burkhard said all seven
Libyan rebels danced on wrecked government tanks and handed out bread and water to residents on Saturday after retaking Ajdabiyah, a gateway to the east that has been left a ghost town
Radiation levels have soared in seawater near Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, officials said on Saturday, as engineers struggled to stabilise the power station two weeks after it was hit by
Thousands of mourners at a funeral for a Syrian killed in anti-government protests burned a ruling Baath party building and a police station on Saturday as authorities freed 260 prisoners in a
Lights started going off around the world on Saturday in a show of support for renewable energy, given added poignancy by Japan's nuclear disaster, which raises doubts about nuclear power as a
Thousands of Bulgarians rallying in the Bulgarian capital on Saturday urged the government to quit over economic crisis in the European Union's poorest nation. About 4,000 people joined a protest called by
Portugal's commitment to fiscal consolidation targets is essential to calm financial markets and both the Lisbon government and opposition must be clear on them, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday. Portuguese
February saw a drop in outbound tourism, with the number of residents of Cyprus returning from a trip abroad falling by 2.4% to 69,325 compared with 71,045 in February 2010. Among the
