cinema

• Czech festival showcases Eastern European films

  Some of the best new movies from Central and Eastern Europe take pride of place at the Czech film… 08/07/08 19:56 CET

corporate

• Lower crude prices prevent bigger share slide

  Fresh worries about the outlook for the banking sector drove European shares down by 1% on Tuesday… 08/07/08 20:47 CET

• Ecofin differences over fuel and meal taxes

  Germany and France are split over proposals for a cap on fuel taxes and the lowering of VAT on… 08/07/08 20:47 CET

• Siemens to cut more workers

  German industrial conglomerate Siemens plans to cut around 4% of its workforce. It is part of an… 08/07/08 20:47 CET

• G8 calls for Beijing currency changes

  Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations have made a veiled call for China to let the… 08/07/08 20:47 CET

• TNK-BP ‘facing tax troubles’

  Russian tax inspectors have reportedly hit BP’s troubled oil joint venture TNK-BP with new demands… 08/07/08 20:47 CET

europa

• EU to boost missing children cooperation

  The European Union countries have agreed to cooperate more closely in the hunt for missing children… 08/07/08 20:36 CET

• Law binds aviation to contribute to CO2 goals from 2012

  Airlines will have to start paying for their share of air pollution in 2012. An agreement has… 08/07/08 20:34 CET

• EU ministers agree united front on immigrants

  The concept of a fortress Europe has moved a step closer with European interior and immigration… 08/07/08 07:36 CET

le mag

• Bolshoi revives Stalin’s favourite ballet

  When the head of Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet decided to he was going to revive Stalin’s favourite… 08/07/08 19:59 CET

questions for europe

• Torture and ill-treatment

  Aren’t there international laws against this? 08/07/08 12:28 CET

• EU help for small and medium sized companies

  Brussels has come up with the Small Business Act as a way to make life easier for Europe’s 23… 08/07/08 12:28 CET

science

• The sea that nearly died

  Once the world’s fourth largest inland sea, the Aral was virtually destroyed by Soviet attempts to… 08/07/08 19:53 CET

world news

• Rome voices concern over Anglican women bishops

  The Church of England is facing a backlash from traditionalists and other branches of Christianity… 08/07/08 20:25 CET

• Sarkozy pleads pardon for Red Brigades’ Petrella

  French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he asked Italy to pardon former Red Brigades member Marina… 08/07/08 20:08 CET

• US-Czech missile shield deal prompts Russian backlash

  The ink was barely dry on a controversial missile defence deal signed by the US and the Czech… 08/07/08 20:06 CET

• G8 leaders urge nations to share emissions goal

  G8 leaders have reached agreement among themselves on reducing greenhouse gases but insist… 08/07/08 20:04 CET

• New EU-leaning Serbian government confirmed

  The Serbian Parliament has approved a pro-Western government that aims to consign the fervent… 08/07/08 18:32 CET

• Extradition for Red Brigades Petrella

  French President Nicolas Sarkozy has confirmed the extradition of the former member of the Red… 08/07/08 13:48 CET

• Rice arrives in Prague to sign off Czech radar deal

  US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Prague to sign a controversial missile… 08/07/08 13:48 CET

• G8 wants UN deal to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

  The G8 club of rich nations say they want to work with the 200 or so states involved in UN climate… 08/07/08 13:48 CET

• Slovakia gets the go-ahead to join the Euro

  EU finance ministers have given the go-ahead for Slovakia to adopt the Euro on January 1, 2009… 08/07/08 13:48 CET

• Argentine glacier in winter thaw

  The Perito Moreno glacier in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia has ruptured in a rare… 08/07/08 13:48 CET

• Petrella: not the only former Red Brigade militant facing extradition

  A former member of the Red Brigades, Marina Petrella was convicted in absentia in 1992, and… 08/07/08 13:48 CET

• Israel starts exhuming bodies ahead of handover

  Israel has begun exhuming the bodies of slain Palestinian and Lebanese fighters, ahead of a… 08/07/08 07:43 CET

• Anglican church searches for bishop compromise

  The Anglican church says it will try to find a way around fierce opposition to women becoming… 08/07/08 07:38 CET

• Students rally for French dead as suspect is held

  Friends and relatives of the two French students murdered in London held a rally in their memory in… 08/07/08 07:37 CET

• Serbian rivals now united in coalition government

  Serbia’s new government has been voted in by Parliament. Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, a close… 08/07/08 07:34 CET

• Climate change deal dominates G8 in Japan

  The world’s leading industrialised nations are set to take an important step in the fight against… 08/07/08 07:29 CET

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