In an overheard exchange with U.S. President Barack Obama at the G20 summit last week, French President Nicohlas Sarkozy allegedly called Benjamin Netanyahu a 'liar.'
The home secretary, Teresa May, has blamed the head of the border force, Brodie Clark, for relaxing checks on the nation’s borders.
An online petition launched by a think-tank, seeking a House of Commons debate on the issue of of immigration, has achieved 100,000 signatures.
The Greek press warned political parties that "today is the last chance" to end the political stalemate and appoint a new leader.
Two of Britain's biggest High Street names have posted worrying financial reports.
Silvio Berlusconi will face on Tuesday a crucial vote on Italy's public accounts while the interest rate on Italian ten-year bond hits another high of 6.733 per cent.
The UK jobs front continues to be grim, even as a Trades Union Congress (TUC) report, published on Tuesday, has shown that unemployment figures rose 97 percent in local council areas over the past year.
An MPs' panel has firmly backed the Government's high-speed rail link plans but has raised concerns over the current preferred route for the project.
Thousands of Russian soldiers and military cadets paraded across the Red Square to mark the 70th anniversary of the parade that saw Soviet Soldiers march from the Kremlin into the frontline where they faced the Nazi forces during World War II.
Last week, embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to end its crackdown on anti-government demonstrations, pull troops from the streets and release prisoners jailed during months of protests, according to the Arab League. However within days, more civilian deaths have been announced and the city of Homs has now become the symbol of the deadly crackdown led by Assad's forces.
Former general Otto Perez Molina has been elected president of Guatemala after pledging to tackle crime and drug-related violence that are plaguing the country.
The prime minister, David Cameron, confirmed to the Commons that he would be using British taxpayers money to invest into the IMF - a fund used to help ailing economies.
The British economy will contract this quarter or next, warns accountancy and business advisory group BDO.
Israeli officials deny that the international hackers' group were responsible for the malfunction of several government-run websites on Sunday.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi denied planning to quit on Monday. In a message update to his Facebook page, he said "the rumours of my resignation are groundless."
Laila Soueif, the mother of the prominent activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah, currently in prison under investigation has announced she began a hunger strike Sunday, to oppose the imprisonment of her son by the country's ruling military council, accused of represing activists and religious minorities.
Delegates on board the Freedom Waves to Gaza flotilla have been mistreated by Israeli forces and are currently being detained in Givon prison, central Israel, say activist groups.
The Muslim world has begun celebrating Eid al-Adha, a festival where humility and solidarity within the community is put promoted.
An e-petition calling for tighter regulation on immigration is drawing close to 100,000 signatures which would trigger a debate in the House of Commons.
A UN peacekeeper has been killed in Sudan's Southern Darfur and two other have been injured near the capital of South Darfur state, the United Nations said in a statement. It came less than one month after three peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in North Darfur.
China's political leadership may be grappling with the flip side of technology after a world-class innovation like its high-speed rail system hit a major road block in terms of safety and security. However, China's space experts have been able to consolidate the country's position as an emerging competitor to the U.S. by means of a couple of success stories of late.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi denied media reports that he could resign within hours.
A break-up of the single currency would be economically better for the UK within five years, according to a leading research group.
Tombs of the family of dead Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have been desecrated, an Algerian newspaper has reported, after a gang attacked a Sirte cemetery of the Gadadfa tribe.
The Avon and Somerset police are investigating reports by eye-witnesses of black smoke on the carriageway. It is believed that the smoke could be one of the reasons behind what is one of the worst road crashes in the United Kingdom's history. On Sunday though, the Somerset section (both north and southbound, between Junctions 24 and 25) was re-opened at 9 p.m.
Feminist protesters gathered outside the 60th Miss World competition in London Sunday night.
Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni declared Sunday that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition "has no majority in Parliament" as the government faces a key confidence vote Tuesday on emergency economic measures.
The new president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, will look to promote “growth” in the eurozone, according to a leading portfolio manager in the City of London.
After 48 hours of political deadlock, Greece will name its new prime minster by the end of the day after the outgoing premier, George Papandreou, and opposition leader, Antonis Samaras, reached a consensus with the country’s president Carolos Papoulias yesterday evening.
Venezuelan-born militant Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - dubbed "Carlos the Jackal"- will go on trial in Paris on Monday charged with terrorism. The self-styled Cold War revolutionary is accused of terrorist bombings in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.
