LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said on Sunday it will go further in its attempts to tackle the gender pay gap by forcing large firms to publish details about the bonuses given to men and women. In July, Prime Minister David
FRANKFURT, Germany – Frantic deal-making in the German property market has spotlighted the scarcity of housing in the country and thrown into sharp relief the influx of up to one million migrants fleeing war and poverty. Property consolidation reached new heights
NEW YORK – A former follower of radical London imam Abu Hamza al-Masri avoided prison on Friday after providing what a U.S. prosecutor said was over a decade of “unprecedented” cooperation in terrorism investigations that led to the conviction of his
LJUBLJANA/DOBOVA, Slovenia – Slovenia said it will consider all options, including fencing off its border with Croatia, if European leaders fail to agree a common approach to the migrant crisis as thousands stream into the ex-Yugoslav republic. Migrants began crossing
BORDEAUX, France, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Forty-two mostly elderly people died when a bus and a truck collided head-on and caught fire near Bordeaux early on Friday, officials said, in France’s worst road crash in decades. Another five people were
LONDON – Heard the one about the lord, the gangster and the prime minister’s wife? An old scandal from the 1960s re-emerges in lurid new detail from declassified British intelligence files featuring prominent politician Lord Boothby, his mistress, who was
LJUBLJANA/RIGONCE, Slovenia – More than 12,000 migrants have crossed into Slovenia in the past 24 hours and thousands more are expected, prompting authorities to ask the rest of the European Union for help dealing with the flood of people. Slovenia
Sweden said on Thursday it expected up to 190,000 migrants this year, putting unprecedented strain on a country famous for welcoming refugees but planning to house many in tents this winter. On the opposite pole of the angry debate on
British retail sales recorded their strongest monthly growth in almost two years last month, boosted by bumper beer sales linked to the Rugby World Cup hosted in England and Wales. Retail sales volumes surged by 1.9 per cent on the
A masked man wielding “knife-like weapons” killed one teacher and wounded another as well as two boys at a school in western Sweden on Thursday before being shot by police. Police said the suspect, a man in his 20s, was
Slovenia has asked the European Union for police to help regulate the inflow of migrants from Croatia, Interior Minister Vesna Gyorkos Znidar told TV Slovenia. Over the past 24 hours, more than 10,000 migrants, many fleeing violence in Syria, have
Chinese President Xi Jinping has sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to finance nuclear power stations in Britain, crowning a visit that Prime Minister David Cameron hopes will unleash a wave of investment from the world’s second largest economy. After a
Japan on Tuesday acknowledged the first possible casualty from radiation at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, a worker who was diagnosed with cancer after the crisis broke out in 2011.
(Reuters) – Four boatloads of migrants came ashore at a British military base on Cyprus on Wednesday, authorities said, the first time since the migrant crisis began that migrants have landed directly on what is considered British sovereign soil. Vessels
Britain will look to encourage high spending Chinese tourists to visit the country by introducing a two year multiple-entry visa, the government said on Wednesday during a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Xi’s visit, which included an audience
LYON, France, Oct 20 (Reuters) – France’s far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen said the government was using the judiciary to persecute her as she went on trial on Tuesday for comparing Muslim street prayers to Nazi occupation.
Deutsche Bank AG erroneously paid $6 billion (3.9 billion pounds) to a U.S. hedge fund client after a junior trader processed the wrong figure, the Financial Times reported. The bank recovered the amount from the client the next day and the
LJUBLJANA, Oct 20 – Slovenia’s parliament is expected to approve changes to its laws later on Tuesday to enable the army to help police guard the border, as thousands of migrants flooded into the country from Croatia after Hungary sealed off
Oct 20 – Twelve Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to call publicly for the release of their fellow laureate, Liu Xiaobo, and his wife Liu Xia during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to
LONDON, Oct 19 – Bank of England Governor Mark Carney will spell out how Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU) affects the central bank’s ability to manage the economy and protect the country’s banking sector in a key speech
Canada’s Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late surge to a stunning majority election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamour, youth and charisma to Ottawa. Harper
Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives has fallen to its lowest since May 2013, a poll showed on Sunday, as her coalition partner said Germany must win over refugee skeptics or else risk “planting social explosives in our nation”.
BERKASOVO, Serbia – Thousands of migrants clamoured to enter European Union member Croatia from Serbia on Monday after a night spent in the cold and mud of no-man’s land, their passage west slowed by a Slovenian effort to impose limits on
German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Istanbul on Sunday desperate to secure Turkey’s help in stemming the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe, but without being seen to sacrifice their human rights. Dubbed a “punch-bag” for her own
Migrants camped on France’s north coast continued their bids to reach Britain on Thursday as the first autumn winds blew into their sprawl of tents and shanties and EU leaders arrived in Brussels, 200 kilometres away, to discuss the broader
