LEADING UK banks have been given a welcome boost by a European Union financial test while others key institutes in the eurozone have been savaged. The Bank of England welcomed the results of the European Banking Authority’s (EBA) stress test which laid bare the full scale of Europe’s banking crisis. Barclays,...
Former President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is to go on trial for obstruction of justice in a case related to the scandal at state oil firm Petrobras, court documents show. The multi-billion-dollar affair has already seen dozens of politicians and officials arrested. Lula, with six others, is accused of hampering...
THE next Euromillions winner will be a Briton after it was revealed a UK ticket holder scooped the £61.1million jackpot. National Lottery announced the winner matched all seven numbers to grab the mammoth sum. The winning numbers were 01, 21, 26, 40, and 50. The lucky star numbers are 02 and 04. The jackpot, a total of...
Dozens of families have left besieged eastern areas of the city of Aleppo along a humanitarian corridor, Syrian state media says. The civilians boarded buses and were taken to temporary shelters, state news agency Sana said. Some rebels had also surrendered to government forces, the report said. Russia, an ally of the Syrian...
Родственники террориста из Ниццы сообщили о нем важные сведения Семья водителя-террориста Мохаммеда Бухлеля, который убил 84 и ранил 202 человека в ходе теракта в Ницце, отрицает...
US President Barack Obama has delivered a stirring speech at the Democratic convention, hailing Hillary Clinton as his political heir and rounding on "home-grown demagogue" Donald Trump. "There has never been a man or woman, not me, not Bill, nobody more qualified than Hillary" to be president, he said. When...
French prosecutors have identified the second man involved in the killing of a priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday as 19-year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean. Like the other attacker, Adel Kermiche, he was known to the security services. The teenagers were shot dead by police outside the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray where...
Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She said the attackers "wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help people in need. We firmly reject this". But she did propose new...
JUST one extremist in Britain is under curfew despite there being more than 2,000 terror suspects in the UK, it has been revealed. The Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures, known as T-Pims, is used by the police and MI5 to keep surveillance on terror suspects who are yet to be deported. But, as of May this year, the...
JEAN-Claude Juncker’s chief Brexit negotiator’s role has been dismissed by a former cabinet member. Sir Malcolm Rifkind said former French foreign minister Michel Barnier was a “tough guy”. But the former foreign secretary played down Barnier’s role in the Brexit negotiations, claiming Theresa May...
About 70 members of Russia's Olympic team have left a Moscow airport for Brazil to take part in Rio 2016 while others stay at home, banned for doping. Members of the volleyball, handball, boxing, synchronised swimming and table tennis teams were seen off at Sheremetyevo Airport. The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) wanted...
The Japanese city of Hiroshima has asked Pokemon Go's creators to keep its virtual monsters out of memorials to victims of the atomic bomb. It wants the monsters removed by 6 August, when an annual ceremony is held on the anniversary of the 1945 bombing. It follows a request by the operators of the Fukushima nuclear plant...