World / Europe

Etiquette and protocol highlights for royal wedding guests 23 Apr 2018 - 04:52 pm

NEW YORK: Grab those nude stockings, ladies. You'll be at a royal wedding, after all. While the May 19 nuptials of Prince Harry...

Chef dies after collapsing at London Marathon 23 Apr 2018 - 02:43 pm

London: ِA 29-year-old chef has died after collapsing in the hottest London Marathon on record, organisers said on Monday. Matt Campbell, who featured...

It's a boy: Kate, wife of UK's Prince William, gives birth to third child 23 Apr 2018 - 01:46 pm

LONDON: Kate, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a boy on Monday at a hospital in London, the third child for...

Merkel party warns competition 'impossible' against Facebook 23 Apr 2018 - 01:39 pm

Berlin: A leading politician from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party warned Monday that Facebook's dominance makes competition "impossible", joining a broadside against...

Belgian court sentences Paris suspect Abdeslam to 20 years in jail 23 Apr 2018 - 11:45 am

Brussels: A Belgian court on Monday sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving suspect in the Paris attacks, to 20 years in prison for...

French police arrest suspect over Mont Saint Michel scare 23 Apr 2018 - 10:46 am

Paris: French police have arrested a man accused of threatening to attack police at Mont Saint Michel, causing a scare that led to...

UK Prince William's wife Kate taken to hospital to give birth to third child 23 Apr 2018 - 10:22 am

LONDON: Kate, the wife of Prince William, was admitted to hospital on Monday to give birth to the couple's third child and the...

Police in Armenia detain opposition leaders, protesters 22 Apr 2018 - 08:43 pm

YEREVAN: Police in Armenia detained three opposition leaders and nearly 200 protesters on Sunday, drawing a rebuke from the European Union after demonstrators...

German Social Democrats elect Andrea Nahles as first female leader 22 Apr 2018 - 04:36 pm

Wiesbaden, Germany: Germany's centre-left Social Democrats on Sunday elected Andrea Nahles, a combative and outspoken former labour minister, as the first woman leader...

Tourists at iconic French abbey evacuated after threat 22 Apr 2018 - 02:03 pm

MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France: French authorities evacuated tourists from the Mont-Saint-Michel abbey and were searching houses Sunday on the famed outcropping in the English Channel...

Britain may regulate young people's use of social media - minister 22 Apr 2018 - 01:43 pm

LONDON: Britain's health minister Jeremy Hunt threatened to impose new regulations on social media firms unless they did more to protect young people...

Armenian PM walks out of talks with protest leader 22 Apr 2018 - 10:02 am

Yerevan: Armenia's prime minister and ex-president Serzh Sarkisian walked out of a televised meeting Sunday with anti-government protest leader Nikol Pashinyan shortly after...

German Social Democrats to elect Andrea Nahles as first female leader 22 Apr 2018 - 07:53 am

Berlin: Germany's Social Democrats are Sunday expected to elect Andrea Nahles, a combative and outspoken former labour minister, as the first woman leader...

Moscow slams US for refusing Bolshoi prima ballerina visa 21 Apr 2018 - 03:42 pm

Moscow: The Russian foreign ministry on Saturday slammed the US for refusing an entry visa to a prima ballerina at the country's Bolshoi...

Ukraine moves to split church from Russia as elections approach 19 Apr 2018 - 04:54 pm

KIEV: Ukraine's Orthodox church could become independent of Moscow under the terms of a presidential initiative lawmakers approved on Thursday, a move that...

New asylum-seekers free to travel from Greek islands, court rules 18 Apr 2018 - 09:53 pm

ATHENS: A top Greek court ruled on Wednesday that migrants landing on Greek islands should no longer be held there while asylum claims...

Queen to welcome Commonwealth leaders as group seeks mission 18 Apr 2018 - 09:40 pm

LONDON: The flags of more than 50 nations are flying outside Buckingham Palace as Queen Elizabeth II prepares to welcome leaders from the...

Pro-Putin youth group to form counter-protest squads 18 Apr 2018 - 09:24 pm

MOSCOW: The youth wing of Russia's dominant party says it will begin training groups of activists to mobilize quickly to conduct counterdemonstrations to...