Sydney Daily Telegraph criticises 'ridiculous' UK media ban as it follows German tabloid Bild in printing controversial image Daily Mail follows Bild in racing to the bottom One of Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspapers has published a picture showing the Duchess of Cambridge's bare bottom, refusing to follow a "ridiculous" ban imposed by the British media. The image was taken during the...
Paper comes close to invading duchess's privacy with pictures and then tells her she should 'make more of an effort to cover up' The Daily Mail's decision to publish a string of revealing images of the Duchess of Cambridge , including a pixellated image of her bare bottom, comes close to invading her privacy without ever stepping over the mark. Continue reading... ...
Mother of dead student says police destroyed evidence and asks for investigation into involvement of far-right group The mother of a British student whose body was found on a road in Germany in 2003 told a court yesterday of her 11-year struggle to understand how he died, and accused German police of having destroyed key evidence in the case. Erica Duggan's 22-year-old son Jeremiah, from north London,...
German photographer who recently won the Prix Pictet for his series exploring global food production The German photographer Michael Schmidt has died, aged 68, of cancer, three days after winning the Prix Pictet for his epic series Lebensmittel (Foodstuffs), which took seven years to complete and which explores global food production in the relentlessly monochrome style that had become Schmidt's signature....
Number of unemployed people in Germany rose by 24,000, while France's jobless total reached record high of 3.364m Unemployment is rising in Europe's two largest economies, with a shock jump in Germany and a new record high in France, according to the latest figures. The number of unemployed people in Germany rose unexpectedly by 24,000 to 2.905 million in May. It was the biggest monthly increase since...
Controversial carcinogen suspect hexachlorobenzene stored at Botany since 1991 after two failed attempts to send it overseas The Australian chemicals company Orica said on Tuesday it had applied to ship a vast stockpile of toxic waste to France to end a long-running saga over how to dispose of it. The company has 15,000 tonnes of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) a byproduct and suspected human carcinogen of...
Eyewitness: German transit terminal gives a foretaste of 'fortress Europe' as confused migrants await their fate Fortress Europe will increasingly look like this: a sealed, makeshift transit area beyond the main terminals where the fate of bewildered asylum-seekers and refugees from the Third World is swiftly decided before they are flown back home. Outside Station C183 yesterday soiled sheets and...
The fresh crop of MEPs includes Holocaust deniers, fascists, xenophobes and a leftwing war hero Poland's newly elected MEP is anti-EU, anti-democracy, pro-Putin and, by his own account, anti-women. The 72-year-old led his party New Right to fourth place in the elections, with 7.2% of the vote. He also gained 28.5% of votes among 18- to 25-year-olds more than any other party. Continue reading... ...
A Brussels dinner brings together the walking wounded from an election that has reshaped the politics of at least four nations Prime ministers, presidents, and chancellors from across Europe are to dine in Brussels on Tuesday evening, and digest the verdict from their respective disenchanted voters. Many will arrive as walking wounded, their credibility battered, their reputations bruised, their policies...
CDU and its sister party CSU together gain 35.4% of vote, with the Pirate party and Animal Rights party also gaining seats The party group led by Angela Merkel, below, emerged as the overall winner in Germany, in spite of suffering its worst result in the history of European parliamentary elections. The CDU and Bavarian sister party the CSU together gained 35.4% of the vote, beating into second place...
Elections return record number of MEPs opposed to EU project, with far right winning in France, Denmark and Austria Rolling coverage of the European election results European politics were jolted as seldom before on Sunday when France's extreme nationalists triumphed in the European parliament elections, which across the continent returned an unprecedented number of MEPs hostile or sceptical about...
British Museum and Radio 4 join forces to examine the objects that symbolise the cultural powerhouse of Europe They were once "the Hun", then they were the "Jerries"; now they are the European heavyweights whose priorities will determine much of the continent's future. But few British people learn their language any more and fewer still will visit their country this summer. Germany...
Budget airline writes to European commission, Irish government and French embassy in Dublin over new inquiry into operations Ryanair has lodged a formal complaint with the European commission after French police raided its Marseille offices as part of an new inquiry into the low cost airline's operations in France. The Dublin-based company has sent protest letters to Brussels, the Irish government...
Greek deputy PM Evangelos Venizelos describes the dramatic 2011 crisis summit that nearly forced his country out of the eurozone and outlines the damage that was averted It was a meal where only four of the 14 participants spoke and nobody ate. Seated in front of crystal glasses, the finest porcelain laid out before them, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and her French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy,...
Koblenz court orders man to delete nude images of ex-partner, even though he had shown no intention of publishing them Intimate photographs should be deleted at the end of a relationship if one of the partners calls for it, a court in Germany has ruled. The ruling by the Koblenz higher regional court has resonated throughout a digital world grappling with the balance between freedom of expression and...
Pink wigs, dangerous darts and buckets of paint cause an explosion of colour in two shows performed at an arts festival in the Ruhr valley, Germany. The Australian physical theatre group 3 is a Crowd perform Fright or Flight while the Belgian visual artist Miet Warlop presents Mystery Magnet. The FIDENA international puppet theatre festival in Bochum runs until 24 May Continue reading... ...
ECHR dismisses Rory and Stuart Gray's claim that their rights were denied when Germany refused to extradite Daniel Ubani The sons of a man accidentally killed by a German out-of-hours doctor on his first UK shift have lost a claim at the European court of human rights that the authorities in Germany did not provide an effective investigation into their father's death. Rory and Stuart Gray had said...
Latest survey shows French private sector contracting this month, lagging the rest of the eurozone Summary: Eurozone growth dips as France stumbles UK economy grew 0.8% in Q1 - confirmation Photos: cleaners occupy Greek ministry entrance Deutsche Bank AGM hit by protests 5.18pm BST A slight dip in eurozone growth, according to the latest PMI surveys, left European markets struggling for direction,...
Germany's political elite is complacent about the far right, and is failing to fight for the Europe it helped to create On a recent Monday morning in Brussels, a German diplomat just back from a weekend in Berlin is chatting to colleagues. "Can you imagine," he tells them, "my neighbours asked me whether Angela Merkel was planning to move to Brussels! She is on all her party's posters...
Jean-Claude Juncker, former Luxembourg prime minister, vying with Martin Schulz, German social democrat, for EU's top job It is a paradox about the European parliament that may escape many of Europe's 375 million voters as they start going to the polls on Thursday: the less people vote for it, the more powers it gets. At every European election since the first in 1979, turnout has shrunk but over the...