German Defense Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg announced late Monday that he gave up his doctorate title permanently, as investigations are going on over his allegedly plagiarizing large parts of his thesis in 2006. His…
Category: Europe
Wayne Rooney plans to make amends for the worst season of his life by firing Manchester United to a crucial victory against fading champions Chelsea on Tuesday. By his own admission Rooney has been well…
European Union industrial carbon emissions rose by up to 4 percent last year, analysts estimate, still far below 2008 levels and leaving the bloc on course to beat its 2020 climate target. The EU emissions…
Mario Gomez struck in injury time as Bayern Munich took a huge step towards avenging their defeat by Inter Milan in the 2010 Champions League final. The Bundesliga top scorer pounced on an error by…
Europe could save €900bn (£762bn) and still hit its 2050 carbon reduction targets if it built fewer wind farms and more gas plants, a coalition of gas producers including Gazprom, Centrica and Qatar Petroleum has…
Some 24 European countries have been affected by match-fixing and up to 100 games have been manipulated in the past five months alone, said a betting watchdog official on Wednesday. Speaking as an expert witness…
The blast at an arrival hall at Domodedovo Airport serving Moscow was a suicide attack, officials say. They say they are looking for three Chechen men in connection with the attack, but probably this time…
British intelligence helped draw up a secret plan for a wide-ranging crackdown on the Islamist movement Hamas which became a security blueprint for the Palestinian Authority, leaked documents reveal. The plan asked for the internment…
As Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) become more active in global development especially in the area of humanitarian assistance, their role in the socio-economic and political spheres in various regions of the world need to be given a closer look. A Non-governmental Organization…
World economies in the past few months could be said to have reached the stage of recovery from the global recession. But what do we really consider recovery? What criteria of a recovery from a…