President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy has expressed the hope Cyprus would be a united island when it takes over the rotating Presidency of the Council next year. He also
Two Byzantine icons of the 18th century depicting Apostles Andreas and Iacovos, were located in Germany and recovered by the Church of Cyprus. A statement by the Representation of the Church of
Chinese investors including the country's sovereign wealth fund may inject $13 billion into Spanish banks, a government source said on Wednesday after Spain's premier met financial authorities in Beijing. Concerns about delays
Irish taxpayers should not complain about having to bailout the country's crisis-hit banks and in future regulation should be steered at a European level, one of the ECB's top policymakers said on
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Italy's parliament is due to vote on a justice reform bill on Wednesday which would cut the length of many trials and end a bribery case against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. If
German lawmakers should seek the right to vote down any supplementary contributions by the country to a permanent fund being set up to bail out fiscally troubled euro zone states, a document
Russia will boost its efforts to explore the solar system and seek a bigger share of the market for space launches in the next decade, Prime Minister Vladmir Putin said on Thursday.
The world's biggest economies hope to make progress this week on a plan to identify countries that put the global economy at risk, while China warned against any moves that would curb
The scale of the challenge facing Nokia in the all-important smartphones market was underscored on Tuesday when a powerful new handset from Taiwan's HTC overshadowed two new models from the Finnish giant.
