U.S. diplomatic staff returned to their embassy in Brussels on Wednesday after a brief evacuation caused by the discovery of a suspicious vehicle nearby, a U.S. official said. Hundreds of U.S. diplomats and staff at the Belgium Defence Ministry were evacuated for around 45 minutes after police discovered a minivan with suspect number plates and
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Brazil stayed outside the top ten of FIFA's highly questioned ranking system on Wednesday, with England, Denmark and Greece all ahead of the five-times world champions. The South Americans, who hit an all-time low of 13th last month, climbed one place to 12th thanks to a 3-0 friendly win in Sweden. But their placing, one
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European stocks dipped on Wednesday as mounting worries over global growth following a string of bleak macro data weighed on sentiment in the run-up to a European Central Bank meeting on Thursday. Shares in BP sank 4.2 percent, the biggest loser among Europe's blue chips, after the U.S. Justice Department ramped up its rhetoric against
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Britain's banks face new rules to stamp out sales incentives that have encouraged mis-selling of financial products going back two decades, the Financial Services Authority said on Wednesday. UK banks have been hit by a series of scandals in the last 20 years over sales of unsuitable products, ranging from home loans to pensions, to
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The government is looking into ways to improve control at check-points, along the ceasefire line, dividing Cyprus’ northern Turkish occupied areas from the southern government controlled part of the country, Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Sophocles Aletraris has said. In 2012, only three hundred tonnes of potatoes were transported legally from the
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Budget carrier easyJet Plc said on Wednesday it would roll out allocated seating across its network from November following a successful trial this summer. Europe's second-largest low-cost carrier after Ryanair had tested the new system across 5 percent of its network during the peak season with 70 percent of passengers preferring it to easyJet's current
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Nokia and Microsoft Corp will take the wraps off the struggling European company's most powerful smartphone on Wednesday, in what may be their last major shot at winning back a market lost to Apple, Samsung and Google. The world's largest software maker and the Finnish company that once dominated the cellphone market will showcase the
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Cyprus will not ease off fiscal austerity measures required by its European Union partners if it secures a 5 billion euro loan from Russia, its foreign minister said on Tuesday. The Mediterranean island, with an economy that generates a little over 17 billion euros in annual gross domestic product, may need 10 billion euros to
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Asian shares slid to near six-week lows and the euro fell on Wednesday, as investors turned edgy ahead of a pivotal European Central Bank meeting on Thursday and U.S. payroll data on Friday. Investors braced for the possibility that the ECB will act less boldly than they earlier hoped. Still, if the ECB disappoints and
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A gunman shot dead one person inside the Montreal theater where the leader of Quebec's separatist Parti Quebecois was addressing supporters in the wake of a narrow election win in the Canadian province, police said on Wednesday. The incident was shocking for Canada, where crime rates are relatively low and political violence is unheard of.
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