Google has agreed to create a 60m euro ($82m; £52m) fund to help French media organisations improve their internet operations. It follows two months of
(Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande arrived in Mali on Saturday on a one-day visit to support French troops fighting a campaign against Islamist rebels
Russian President Vladimir Putin has unleashed the worst political crackdown in the country’s post-Soviet era, a human rights group has said. In a report, Human
(Reuters) – Germany’s openly gay foreign minister has told Moscow’s envoy to Berlin a Russian draft law banning “homosexual propaganda” contravenes human rights and could
Protesters in Greece have stormed the Athens offices of a government minister in the latest demonstration against austerity measures. More than 30 demonstrators reached a
Ceija Stojka, a Roma (Gypsy) Holocaust survivor, writer and self-taught artist, has died aged 79. Through her writing and artwork, Stojka raised international awareness of
A real-life “tractor beam”, which uses light to attract objects, has been developed by scientists. It is hoped it could have medical applications by targeting