Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:50
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, has been detained by French police as part of an investigation into a suspected prostitution ring.
Europe

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, has been detained by French police as part of an investigation into a suspected prostitution ring.

Germany's government and two main opposition parties have agreed to jointly nominate a former East German human rights activist as the country's next president, the German chancellor has said.

With barely nine weeks to go until France's presidential election, incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy has finally launched his re-election campaign in front of thousands of flag-waving supporters in the southern port city of Marseille.

Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in cities across Russia, in a show of force two weeks before a presidential election that is expected to return him to the Kremlin.

Hundreds of banner-waving protesters have rallied in Athens to protest deep budget cuts that have paved the way for approval of a new $171 billion European bailout for the debt-laden nation.


Dutch Prince Johan Friso is in critical condition in hospital after he was buried in an avalanche while skiing off piste in the Austrian Alps, authorities have said.

Pope Benedict XVI has brought 22 new Catholic officials into the elite club of cardinals who will elect his successor, in a greatly simplified ceremony that took into account that the 84-year-old pontiff is slowing down.

Two masked men stormed into a small museum at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece, smashing display cases with hammers and making off with dozens of antiquities up to 3,200 years old, authorities say.

Rupert Murdoch has pledged to launch a Sunday edition of his scandal-hit Sun tabloid in a bid to win over angry staff.
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