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' albumLuz, 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 HollandeFrench 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 RussiaUkrainian 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 onFar 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 pressureGeorgian 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 leaderPrince 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.
Kiev shows off captured 'Russian soldiers' to mediaKiev showed off two purported Russian soldiers it captured during a gun battle in the separatist east that Ukraine's pro-Western leadership says proves the Kremlin's direct involvement in the war.
Top cartoonist Luz to leave Charlie HebdoCartoonist Luz, who drew Charlie Hebdo's front cover picture of Mohammed following the massacre, said he was leaving the paper.
Russia indicts extradited tycoon for theftRussian authorities on Monday issued an indictment for fraud against tycoon Sergei Polonsky, less than a day after flying him in from Cambodia.
Britain's parliament more gay and diverse after electionWith more female, gay and ethnic minority background lawmakers than ever before, the new House of Commons following May 7's general election has never looked more diverse.