economy
Two billion franc boost to the Swiss economyThe Swiss government has announced plans to spend the equivalent of more than 1.7bn euros to help… 17/08/11 22:23 CET
Markets want more from Merkel and SarkozyThe leaders of the euro zone’s two biggest economies have vowed on moving to a more integrated… 17/08/11 20:42 CET
European markets volatile after Sarkozy-Merkel talksAnother volatile day for European shares. Markets closed at their highest level in more than a week… 17/08/11 11:23 CET
Obama’s jobs pledge on midwest bus tourThe Obama battle bus has been ploughing through America’s rural midwest. It is a crucial… 17/08/11 10:36 CET
pictureoftheday
Crocodile performance in ThailandZoo performer Theerapone Manolai smiles as he puts his head between the jaws of a crocodile during… 17/08/11 14:57 CET
Sport
La Liga players move closer to strikeThe start of the Spanish season looks set to be delayed after talks between the Spanish football… 17/08/11 20:42 CET
world news
Turkey strikes PKK targetsTurkish warplanes attacked Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant targets in northern Iraq on… 17/08/11 15:01 CET
Renewed calls for Darfur doctor to be releasedAn Italian aid group said on Wednesday that it was “optimistic” that one of its doctors kidnapped… 17/08/11 23:33 CET
Anti-Pope visit protesters fill Madrid’s streetsA fake ‘Popemobile’ with a devil’s head set next to the driver led a phalanx of demonstrators… 17/08/11 23:23 CET
Veil fines spark challengeA French Muslim businessman says he is going to go to court to challenge a ban on women wearing… 17/08/11 22:34 CET
Festival highlights the cost of CatholicismYoung and happy, pilgrims from the four corners of the Earth are gathered in Spain for the Roman… 17/08/11 20:42 CET
Gorbachev calls for new Russian leadershipFormer Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev launched a thinly-veiled attack on Russian Prime Minister… 17/08/11 19:43 CET
Priests to forgive abortion at Pope youth festivalThere is set to be a big exercise in forgiveness by the Roman Catholic church at its World Youth… 17/08/11 18:44 CET
Indian anti-corruption activist refuses to leave jailProtests have spread across India for a second day in support of an elderly anti-corruption… 17/08/11 18:14 CET
Facebookers jailed for inciting riotsTwo Facebook users in their early twenties have been jailed for four years for inciting riots… 17/08/11 18:04 CET
Former ‘Orange’ allies face off at Tymoshenko trialUkraine’s ex-president Viktor Yushchenko had to run a gauntlet of angry supporters of the country’s… 17/08/11 17:35 CET
Your money is safe with us, Biden tells ChineseVice-President Joe Biden is in China for talks aimed at easing Beijing’s worries about the state of… 17/08/11 16:33 CET
UN court releases Hariri murder indictmentThe UN court investigating the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister has released the… 17/08/11 15:34 CET
Syria: Dozens dead, hundreds held in LatakiaSyrian state TV has broadcast video which it says shows security forces pulling out of one… 17/08/11 15:03 CET
Libyan rebels under fire in ZawiyahLibyan rebels aiming to topple Colonel Muammar Gaddafi came under fire from government troops in… 17/08/11 14:08 CET
Criticism mounts of Pope’s visit to SpainThe Pope Benedict’s forthcoming visit to Madrid for a Roman Catholic youth festival has sparked… 17/08/11 12:54 CET
Facebook users jailed for ‘inciting riots’Two English Facebook users have been jailed for four years for inciting riots more than one week… 17/08/11 12:23 CET
Deadly blast in south east TurkeyEight Turkish soldiers have been killed in a suspected bomb explosion in the south east of the… 17/08/11 11:43 CET
Images of ‘normal’ life in TripoliAs Libyan rebel forces appeared to gain ground to the west and south of Tripoli, the Gaddafi regime… 17/08/11 08:33 CET
Syria accused of crimes against humanitySyrian tanks have begun to withdraw from the eastern city of Deir al-Zor after a military crackdown… 17/08/11 06:03 CET
Washington: ‘Gaddafi’s days are numbered’Libyan rebels appear to have put government troops on the back foot, forcing them to retreat into… 17/08/11 04:03 CET
Saving the euro – Sarkozy and Merkel styleIt was not what investors had been hoping for but the leaders of France and Germany have favoured… 17/08/11 02:13 CET
Cholera epidemic spreads in famine-hit SomaliaA cholera epidemic is now killing children in Somalia. The intestinal infection is the latest… 17/08/11 00:44 CET
Madrid protests on eve of Pope’s arrivalThousands of people have attended a religious mass in central Madrid for the start of the Roman… 17/08/11 00:43 CET
