BERLIN - German exports have grown 11.4 per cent to top one trillion euros in 2011 but a sharp decline towards the end of the year has triggered fears in Europe's biggest economy, according to fresh...

SYDNEY - Australia's flag carrier Qantas Airways Ltd. said Wednesday it has pulled one of its A380 super jumbos out of service after cracks were discovered in its wings, despite Airbus assuring that...

Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TUSAS) has delivered three modernized F-16 aircraft to Pakistani Air Forces.

Turkish Defense Industry Undersecretary Murad Bayar said that Turkey and Pakistan have...

European Council President Herman Wan Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso will arrive here on a four-day visit beginning today to participate in the annual India-EU Summit...

Scientists have claimed that the egg sac silk of the cocoon stalk of the European cave spider Meta menardi is the most stretchable yet tested.

Spider silk is of broad interest for its strength,...

The executive director of Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE), Piara Powar, has been branded a racist for calling an Asian fan a "coconut".

Replying to Parmjit Singh's Twitter comment about a...

One of the world's largest mobile phone makers, Nokia, is planning to cut 4000 factory jobs in Europe as it shifts the assembly of smartphones to Asia.

The company said in a statement that jobs...

The United States may get its first Mormon president this year, if Republican candidate Mitt Romney prevails in his bid. But in France, the Mormon faith is viewed with deep suspicion and a project to...

A defiant Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is defending his financially troubled nation's new constitution and related laws, saying those criticizing it are motivated by greed and want to keep...

A brutal cold front blamed for hundreds of deaths across Europe is threatening to linger even longer.

High winds whipped across Russia's Krasnodar region Wednesday, churning water in the port city...

Debt-ridden Greece is facing a final decision whether to adopt steep new austerity measures to ease its precarious financial state and avoid a default on its loans next month.

Greek lawmakers...

Turkey is calling for renewed international efforts to end bloodshed in neighboring Syria, where a government assault on the city of Homs, a center of dissent, is intensifying.

Turkish Foreign...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek labor unions have called a two-day general strike starting Friday to protest new cutbacks decided to secure the country's vital rescue loan...

SL Benfica's Argentinian playmaker Pablo Aimar talks to Champions magazine about the joy of scoring, his pride at inspiring Lionel Messi and why, at 32, he has no thought of...

FC Barcelona will play Athletic Club in the Copa del Rey final after squeezing past Valencia CF while Juventus overcame AC Milan at San Siro in the Coppa Italia semi-final first...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish security forces killed 13 Kurdish militants in fighting in southeast Turkey overnight, security sources said, marking an escalation in violence at a time when...

THE RACT is recommending LPG users fill their tanks today if they can find it for about 80c a litre.The message comes after a sudden price hike across Tasmania.RACT price monitoring yesterday found...

In 1953, novelist Thomas Mann appealed to an audience of students in Hamburg to strive for "not a German Europe but a European Germany." This stirring pledge was endlessly repeated at the...

Moscow, Feb. 8 (AP): After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under kilometres of ice for some 20 million...

NEW YORK - Stocks staged an afternoon-long rally and closed higher Wednesday as Greece appeared to close in on the cost-cutting deal it needs to keep from defaulting on its national debt. The Dow...

The Associated Press BEIRUT -- The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between Syria's vice...

A newly declassified document from the German Foreign Ministry archive contains revealing new information about the failed 1981 coup in Spain. According to the report, Spanish King Juan Carlos...

Next FRANKFURT, Germany - The European Central Bank and the Bank of England are preparing to offer more emergency support to the financial sector in the hope of softening the impact of a looming...

31/05/2011ATHENS, Greece -- Ports will be blocked for four hours Tuesday (May 31st) due to protests by workers against the government's privatisation plans. Port workers will gather outside of...

31/05/2011TIRANA, Albania -- Albania is home to the second largest number of smokers in Europe after Turkey, according to figures published by the Public Health Institute in Tirana to mark...

Fabio Capello's reign as England coach ends today while Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is cleared of tax evasion; Zambia reaches the Africa Cup finals and Australia pole vaulter Steve Hooker...

He's a mysterious Russian street artist -- compared to Britain's Banksy whose graffiti stencils can sell for hundreds of thousands of...

Russian scientists on Wednesday announced they had drilled deep through Antartica's icesheet to reach a pristine lake untouched for tens of thousands of...

Thousands struggled without power, including around the historic city of Mostar, where some 15,000 homes lacked electricity. (Getty) At least four Balkan nations have suspended shipping on the...

Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache helicopter pilot - and scooped a prize for his shooting skills, Britain's Ministry of Defence has...

Fabio Capello arrived in London four years ago with a sparkling CV but for all his club success he departed still barely able to speak English and with his adopted country rent with division and long...

Meteorites hurtle across space, then blaze through the atmosphere like falling stars before they crash to the ground. A meteorite from Mars, recovered recently from the Moroccan desert shortly...

Greek leaders have fallen short of striking a deal on austerity cuts ahead of crucial euro zone talks, jeopardising chances of winning a new bail-out package and averting a disastrous debt default. ...

Vodafone today posted third-quarter results slightly below forecasts as increasingly tough trading in Spain and Italy overshadowed solid performances in emerging markets and northern Europe at the...

US President Barack Obama has said Europe must not flinch as its political leaders confront a debt crisis that he acknowledged could do real harm to America's economic recovery. In an interview...

Zbigniew Brzezinski says that as American power declines relative to other countries, and China's influence grows, the United States can no longer dictate to the world, or be "the...

As European debt crisis negotiations approach the 11th hour on yet another bailout for Greece, Margaret Warner reports on some of the people behind the economic success of Germany -- Europe's...

The third largest faction in the European Parliament has called for a freeze on contacts with the Russian State Duma until Russia holds "free and fair parliamentary elections." The...

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said that he wanted to create one of Europe's best health care systems in Georgia. "I have an ambition that the health care system in Georgia would...

Russia would continue military-technical cooperation with Iran in domains not included in the UN Security Council June 2010 Resolution. Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical...

A MP from the Nationalist Movement Party, Sinan Ogan, has submitted a bill to the Turkish parliament on recognition of the Khojaly genocide. Ogan said the massacre in Khojaly fell under several...

The German national statistics office has reported that German trade reached an export surplus record which estimated of €158 billion. As the world's second-biggest exporter behind China,...

PARIS  — The Vega rocket will blast off from French Guiana on Monday, an inaugural flight aimed at giving Europe a vehicle for scientific satellite missions, the first new rocket Europe...

(MENAFN) The French Central Bank said that the country's economy in 2012's first quarter would be expected to record a zero growth, reported Xinhua News.Banque de France added that at the...

(MENAFN) The Greek government said that in 2012, it would slash 15,000 jobs from the public sector, which employs around 750,000 people, reported Tehran Times.The Greek administrative reform...

The first European Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for the diagnosis and management of Wilson's disease are published by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) on the...

The minister said, "This is conditioned by the role Russia plays on the international arena and by the fact that Russia is a traditional partner of the Republic of...