Sacked BBC “Top Gear,” host Jeremy Clarkson has signed a deal with Amazon to present a new motoring show alongside his former co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May. Clarkson was fired from the BBC for physically attacking a member of
LAMIA, Greece (Reuters) – Wild boar and power cuts were Greek cotton farmer Mimis Tsakanikas’ biggest worries until a bank shutdown last month left him stranded without cash to pay suppliers, and his customers without money to pay him. Squeezed on
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, struggling to contain a revolt in his left-wing Syriza party, said on Wednesday that his government would not implement reform measures beyond those agreed with lenders at a euro zone summit this month. Tsipras faces
(Reuters) From a basement billiard club in central Kiev, Dmytro Korchynsky commands a volunteer battalion helping Ukraine’s government fight rebels in the east. A burly man with a long, Cossack-style moustache, Korchynsky has several hundred armed men at his disposal. The exact number, he said, is “classified.”
ATHENS, July 29 (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday he may have to call an early election to bolster a parliamentary majority that has been strained by bailout reforms demanded by creditors. About three dozen of his
FRANKFURT, July 29 (Reuters) – The European Central Bank said on Wednesday that the euro zone’s founding members had diverged economically, a “disappointing” outcome that goes against the premise that a common currency would let laggards slowly catch up. Central
KIEV, July 29 (Reuters) – Ukraine has banned French actor Gerard Depardieu from entering the country for five years, its state security service said on Wednesday, apparently for making comments that suggested he supported Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year.
Tests on two people in Britain suspected of being infected with Middle Eastern Respiratory Virus Syndrome (MERS) have proved negative, hospital officials said on Tuesday. Concerns about the suspected cases had forced a hospital in northern England to shut briefly
SINGAPORE, July 28 (Reuters) – Britain on Tuesday said it would clamp down on the use of “dirty money” to buy up expensive properties, promising to expose the owners of anonymous foreign shell companies hiding cash in London’s buoyant housing
Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif and eight other people have been sentenced to death for war crimes by a Libyan court.
VIENNA, July 28 (Reuters) – Austria is investigating Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders on suspicion of incitement of hatred at an event in Vienna he attended at the invitation of prominent Austrian far-right politician Heinz-Christian Strache. Wilders, whose party has
LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) – A senior British peer said on Tuesday he was leaving the House of Lords, Britain’s unelected upper parliamentary chamber, after a newspaper published a video which it said showed him using cocaine and cavorting with prostitutes.
BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT, July 27 (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund warned on Monday that the euro zone’s prospects were modest and that more money printing than planned may be needed. Contrasting the IMF’s relative gloom, however, German think tank Ifo reported improving
A surprise contender to lead Britain’s opposition Labour Party said on Sunday he believed swaths of the economy should be renationalised as a battle for the left-wing party’s soul prompted warnings it could split in two. The party, which in
ATHENS, July 26 – Some members of Greece’s leftist government wanted to raid central bank reserves and hack taxpayer accounts to prepare a return to the drachma, according to reports on Sunday that highlighted the chaos in the ruling Syriza party.
MONROVIA (Reuters) – The last four cases of Ebola in Liberia were discharged from a treatment clinic in the capital of Monrovia on Monday, meaning there were no more confirmed carriers of the deadly virus in the West African country.
Britain’s government on Wednesday moved to rein in the spiraling costs of renewable power subsidies which it said threatened to push up household bills. The plans include closing support for small-scale solar projects a year early, changing the way renewable
The British government has cast a shadow over the fairness of a planned referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union by trying to relax rules designed to ensure pre-vote official impartiality, a committee of MPs said. Prime Minister David
Government departments will be asked to identify public land that can be sold off for house building as part of plans to make 20 billion pounds of savings to public spending, Chancellor George Osborne will say on Tuesday. Fresh from
Dressed in a traditional scarlet coat and with a feather in his hat, Queen Swan Marker David Barber led six wooden rowing skiffs up the River Thames on Monday as bird counters began the old English tradition of Swan Upping.
The Labour Party suffered an embarrassing split on Monday when about a fifth of its MPs defied its interim leader’s call not to oppose government plans to cut welfare payments. In his first post-election budget this month, Chancellor George Osborne
(Reuters) U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday offered strong support for Nigeria’s new president, Muhammadu Buhari, saying he had a “clear agenda” for defeating the militant Islamist group Boko Haram and was working to root out corruption.
Gangs of Irish nationalists hurled petrol bombs and other missiles at police sent to a County Armagh town after a hoax bomb alert, and another device exploded nearby, police said on Sunday. The second device, which police said was clearly
SRINAGAR, India, July 19 (Reuters) – Indian and Pakistani forces traded fire across their disputed frontier over the weekend, when Muslims celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr, injuring several civilians and raising tension despite a recent agreement aimed at improving
Prime Minister David Cameron wants Britain to do more to help the United States destroy Islamic State in Syria, he said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Britain conducts regular strikes against IS militants in Iraq but has so far
