Future of food served up in ParisCountries are vying to conquer global plates, and palates, with their homegrown specialities at the International Food Fair.
Pope faces key test with vote on divorcees, gaysPope Francis was set to sort his allies from his enemies with a Vatican vote on a document drafted opening the Catholic Church's doors to remarried divorcees and gays.
Russia to launch Europe's largest prisonRussia will launch Europe's biggest prison in 2015 to replace one of its most notorious jails that once held revolutionary Leon Trotsky and Soviet-era dissidents.
Russia's Rosneft takes EU to court over sanctionsRussian oil giant Rosneft and a close associate of President Vladimir Putin are fighting the EU in court over sanctions imposed on some of Russia's biggest companies.
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London pays homage to immortal myth of Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes never existed but his fictional address of 221B Baker Street still receives a steady flow of letters addressed to the famously intuitive detective.
Rolls-Royce cuts forecasts on Russian sanctionsRolls-Royce announced that it was slashing its earnings forecasts partly as result of Western trade sanctions against Russia, causing a share price collapse.
'Maximum cooperation' demanded on MH17: Dutch PMDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has met Russian President Vladimir Putin to demand "maximum cooperation" in the probe into doomed Malaysia flight MH17.