Новости по теме Europe

DBS buys Societe Generale's Asian private banking business Singapore's DBS Bank said Monday it had agreed to buy the Asian private banking business of French lender Societe Generale in a deal worth $220 million, boosting its access to the region's super rich.

17 March 2014 14:54

Tennis: 'Smart' racket offers tennis revolution Aluminium and graphite swept away the wooden racket that Bjorn Borg used to win 11 Grand Slam titles, but smart rackets that analyse power and spin promise a new tennis revolution.

17 March 2014 14:19

Nazarbayev and Cameron discuss situation in Ukraine Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and British Prime-Minister David Cameron have discussed the situation in Ukraine over the phone.

17 March 2014 13:48

95.5 percent in Crimea vote to secede from Ukraine Crimea will formally apply to join Russia on Monday after voting to split from Ukraine as Europe prepared to hit Moscow with a wave of sanctions in the worst East-West stand-off since the Cold War.

17 March 2014 13:03

Polluted Paris forces thousands of cars off the road Thousands of cars will be banned from Parisian roads on Monday as the city tries to curb dangerous pollution levels by introducing alternate driving days for the first time in nearly two decades.

17 March 2014 11:45

France indicts two women over 'Syria-bound' teenage girl French prosecutors on Friday charged two women over the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl who is believed to have travelled to Syria to fight alongside jihadist rebels.

16 March 2014 17:23

Austria prepares to extradite Ukraine oligarch to US Austrian authorities said Friday that Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash had been placed in "extradition custody", the first step towards a possible extradition to the United States.

15 March 2014 14:13

French court sentences Rwandan over genocide A French court sentenced a former Rwandan army captain to 25 years in prison over the 1994 genocide Friday, in a landmark ruling just weeks ahead of the massacre's 20th anniversary.

15 March 2014 12:10

Bomb thrown at police in Northern Ireland Police officers in Northern Ireland came under attack on Friday night when an explosive device was thrown at their vehicle in Belfast, a police spokesman said.

15 March 2014 10:12

EU ready to plug in to 'universal' mobile phone charger The European Union took another step towards the mandatory introduction of a common mobile phone charger, which could power-up all makes of handsets.

14 March 2014 18:02

Paris makes public transport free to tackle severe pollution Paris authorities said Thursday they would make public transport free for three days to encourage drivers to leave their vehicles behind due to severe pollution caused by unusually warm weather.

14 March 2014 17:12

Diana leaked royal directory to UK tabloid, court hears The late Princess Diana leaked a royal phone directory to the now defunct News of the World tabloid, its former royal editor told Britain's phone-hacking trial.

14 March 2014 14:20

NATO should intervene in Crimea 'before massacre': Tatar leader Tatar community leader Mustafa Dzhemilev on Thursday urged NATO to intervene in Crimea to avert a "massacre" and called on the Crimean Tatars to boycott the upcoming referendum to join Russia.

14 March 2014 11:45

Astronomers reveal 'largest yellow star ever' Astronomers have spotted the largest yellow star ever observed in our galaxy and 1,300 times larger than the sun.

13 March 2014 17:39

Pope marks first year far from Rome's madding crowd Pope Francis will spend the first anniversary of his election in a spiritual retreat, far from the adoring crowds in Rome and the tensions within the Church hierarchy that have defined the last year.

13 March 2014 17:10

Bollore to quadruple electric-car points in Britain French tycoon Vincent Bollore said Wednesday he aims to introduce a car version of the "Boris Bikes" hire scheme in London, and quadruple the number of electric car-charging points in Britain.

13 March 2014 15:37

Ukraine PM says EU accord may be signed next week Ukraine's new leaders will likely sign a long-awaited political accord with the European Union next week, interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Wednesday after talks at the White House.

13 March 2014 14:18

Move over '123456': passwords go high-tech too Internet users may before long have a secure solution to the modern plague of passwords, in which they can use visual patterns or even their own body parts to identify themselves.

13 March 2014 13:17

Now the hard work starts for superstar pope Pope Francis celebrates one year in office on Thursday swaddled in a blanket of approval world leaders would die for and most of his predecessors could only dream of.

13 March 2014 10:25

Cinefondation-Atelier selects Kazakh film project Aliyushka feature project by Kazakh film director Adilkhan Yerzhanov has entered the list of 15 projects selected by Cinefondation-Atelier.

12 March 2014 22:28

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