- French president Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP party won a comfortable majority but failed to gain the widely predicted landslide victory in the second-round of parliamentary elections yesterday.
- European leaders are bracing themselves for a "three shirt" Brussels summit this week, as talks on a scaled-back version of the European Union's constitutional treaty entered their final leg.
Montenegro police arrested a former Serbian police general yesterday who had been on the run for more than three years since being charged with murder and persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal said.
Officials have been forced to suspend flights into an airport in the Italian city of Milan due to a plague of hares. The animals invaded the runways at Milan's Linate Airport - and affected the operation of vital equipment
Tony Blair agreed to commit British troops to battle in Iraq in the full knowledge that Washington had failed to make adequate preparations for the postwar reconstruction of the country.
Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann faced criticism last night after officers said family and friends may have destroyed clues within hours of her abduction.
A shadowy group in France has issued the French government with an unusual ultimatum: raise the price of wine or blood will flow. The group's name is the Crav, which stands for nothing more threatening than the Union for Viticultural Action in the Languedoc region in the south.
Berlin's city government is to sell an 81% controlling stake in the Landesbank Berlin (LBB) bank group in a deal worth 5.35bn euros ($7.1bn; £3.5bn).
Measures moving through the U.S. Congress, including a requirement for travelers in some countries to register travel plans online 48 hours before departure, have raised fears in Europe of disruptions in the trans-Atlantic flow of business and leisure travel.
Iran on Sunday condemned Britain's decision to grant a knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie, who was forced into hiding for a decade after the Islamic republic's spiritual leader ordered his assassination.
The A380 superjumbo, swooping high above Le Bourget airfield on its daily demonstration flights, may cast a long shadow over the Paris Air Show this year. Production delays for the double-deck, 555-seat technological marvel have been the catalyst for the plane maker's outsized woes over the past year.
A British court sentenced seven men to a total 136 years in prison on Friday after they were accused of acting as accomplices to a Qaeda-linked terrorist planning spectacular attacks in the United States and Britain.
German women seized during World War II seek recognition. The women, some from western Germany, others from the former communist east, have been meeting once a month since 1996. They share memories, celebrate birthdays and above all struggle to have their past recognized.
Russia said Friday it could not rule out freezing its participation in a treaty limiting the use and deployment of non-nuclear heavy weaponry around Europe after its attempt to overhaul the accord was rebuffed at a special meeting this week. Organizers of an extraordinary meeting on the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty said participants failed to find common ground for a joint statement after talks that began Tuesday in Vienna.
With a ceremony that went off like a classic Swiss timepiece, officials Friday inaugurated the world's longest overland tunnel, a 34.6-kilometer-long (21-mile-long) rail link under the Alps meant to ease highway traffic jams in the mountainous country. The tunnel, which took eight years to build and cost 4.3 billion Swiss francs (US$3.5 billion; €2.6 billion), will trim the time trains need to cross between Germany and Italy from 3 1/2 hours to just under two.
Bulgaria's last three dancing bears are being sent to a mountain sanctuary after activists bought their freedom Friday in an effort to stamp out the centuries-old tradition which has survived in the Balkans despite being outlawed.
Bertie Ahern, who has led Ireland for a decade, has secured re-election as prime minister for a third term, winning parliamentary support for a broadly based coalition that he said would ensure a stable government for the next five years.
The European Union said Friday it would extend what it called "an open invitation" to members of the Cuban government to visit Brussels — on condition that the human rights situation on the communist island is discussed. The invitation is part of the EU's drive to improve its relations with Cuba, strained for years over the issues of human rights and political freedoms.
Elton John sang for tens of thousands of Ukrainians at a charity concert in Kiev's main square in a bid to raise money and increase awareness of the rapidly growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in this ex-Soviet republic.