VANDALS daubed swastikas and anti-Islam slogans on 500 graves of French Muslim war veterans in an attack that President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned as "revolting"
POP queen Madonna is suing a British tabloid for £5 million ($11.4 million) after it published private photographs of her elaborate wedding to film director Guy Ritchie
ANGER over the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old boy erupted in a third day of rioting across Greece today, with security forces firing tear gas to break up a mass protest outside parliament
AUTHORITIES across Europe and Asia rushed to pull Irish pork from store shelves or ban imports today as the European Commission said a score of countries could be affected by a dioxin scare
A MOSCOW court today ordered the release on bail of the jailed former vice-president of Yukos oil group, Vasily Aleksanian, who is battling cancer and AIDS, Russian news agencies reported
ENVIRONMENTAL activists cut through a fence and took over a runway at London`s third main airport yesterday forcing the cancellation of more than 50 flights