Новости по теме Europe

French immigration thriller bags Cannes Palme d'Or A French thriller spotlighting the plight of traumatised refugees building new lives, "Dheepan", captured the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or top prize.

25 May 2015

Andrzej Duda: heir apparent to Poland's conservative Kaczynski twins Andrzej Duda, the 43-year-old conservative MEP and lawyer who won Poland's cliffhanger presidential election on Sunday, has strong ties to the powerful Kaczynski twins.

25 May 2015

Sweden swoons over its Eurovision winner Swedish pop lovers celebrated their country's sixth Eurovision victory with an outpouring of national pride, welcoming heartthrob winner Mans Zelmerlow home.

25 May 2015

Church unnerved by Ireland's huge 'Yes' to gay marriage The once-dominant Catholic Church in Ireland was trying to come to terms with an overwhelming vote in favour of gay marriage.

25 May 2015

Ireland awaits count in historic gay marriage vote Ireland waited Saturday to learn the outcome of a historic referendum on same-sex marriage, with crowds of anxiously optimistic "Yes" supporters expected at Dublin Castle to hear the result.

23 May 2015

'Dad bods' conquer Cannes The movie industry's obsession with slim figures and six-packs is notorious but if the Cannes Film Festival is anything to go by, a generous gut may now be key to winning critics' hearts.

23 May 2015

Ukraine court orders arrest of two 'Russian soldiers' A Kiev court ordered two suspected Russian soldiers who were captured by Ukrainian troops in the separatist east to be placed in pre-trial detention until July 19.

23 May 2015

Poet Joseph Brodsky's flat opens as museum in Russia Russia opened the doors of a new museum dedicated to Nobel Prize-winning dissident poet Joseph Brodsky in the communal flat where he spent his youth.

23 May 2015

Polls open for Irish referendum on gay marriage Polls opened in Ireland for a historic referendum on allowing same-sex marriage that is backed by all the main political parties but opposed by the Catholic Church.

23 May 2015

Merkel sets tough line at EU summit with eastern partners German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the EU's eastern partners not to expect too much of the bloc and warned Russia to mend its ways over Ukraineю

22 May 2015

Hollande says world must respond to threat to Palmyra French President Francois Hollande said the world must respond to Islamic State jihadists' seizure of Palmyra.

22 May 2015

Air France to continue transporting lab monkeys Air France will continue to transport live monkeys for laboratory testing, the airline's CEO Alexandre de Juniac said at an Air-France-KLM shareholders' meeting held.

22 May 2015

Spain confident of Greek debt deal 'within coming days' Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said he expects Greece will reach an agreement with its bailout creditors in the "coming days".

22 May 2015

Eurovision, a stage for geopolitical conflicts? Behind the kitsch, glitz and smoke machines of the Eurovision Song Contest -- hosted by Vienna -- hide more serious international geopolitical tensions.

21 May 2015

Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Luz publishes 'Catharsis' album Luz, one of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists to survive January's Islamist attack on the French satirical magazine, published an album recounting his life after the massacre.

21 May 2015

Time short for global climate deal in Paris, warns Hollande French President Francois Hollande warned that time was short for a year-end deal on climate change and called on world leaders to unlock the complex process in the months ahead.

21 May 2015

Poroshenko says Ukraine waging 'real war' with Russia Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in an interview broadcast that his crisis-torn country was fighting a "real war" with Russia that could escalate at any time.

20 May 2015

Greece's last film poster painter soldiers on Far from the limelight of Cannes, Greece's last painter of film posters toils away in a little garden studio to deliver his latest commission.

20 May 2015

x-Soviet Georgia urges EU progress, despite Russian pressure Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has warned European Union leaders against letting Russian aggression in Ukraine undermine the bloc's project of building closer links with ex-Soviet nations.

20 May 2015

Britain's Prince Charles meets Irish republican leader Prince Charles became the first British royal to meet Irish republican leader Gerry Adams, on a visit that will take him to the scene of his great-uncle's murder by the IRA.

20 May 2015

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