Sweden swoons over its Eurovision winnerSwedish pop lovers celebrated their country's sixth Eurovision victory with an outpouring of national pride, welcoming heartthrob winner Mans Zelmerlow home.
Ireland awaits count in historic gay marriage voteIreland 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 CannesThe 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.
Polls open for Irish referendum on gay marriagePolls 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.
Air France to continue transporting lab monkeysAir 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.
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.