Millions of tourists in Paris will be able to shop all-week long if French MPs pass a controversial set of reforms seen as vital to unblock its stuttering economy.
French President Francois Hollande said that the "same targets" were hit in the weekend attacks in Copenhagen as during the January assault in Paris that claimed 17 lives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged European Jews to move to Israel after a Jewish man was killed in an attack outside Copenhagen's main synagogue
Saturday's twin attacks on a cultural centre and synagogue in Copenhagen left two people dead and five police officers wounded before the assailant himself was gunned down.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered heavy losses in Hamburg city-state elections, where an anti-euro party also looked set to enter parliament.
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has had a phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the outcomes of Norman Talks in Minsk, Belarus.
The race for the Golden Bear top prize at the 65th Berlin film festival shaped up as a dead heat, with break-out talents looking well placed to pip cinema heavyweights.
The G7 voiced concern about bloody violence and the build-up of weapons in eastern Ukraine, days before a negotiated ceasefire was due to come into effect.
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko have discussed the Normand Talk between Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France in Minsk on the phone.