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ATHENS, May 23 (Reuters) - The euro zone may give Greece more time to meet fiscal targets agreed under its international bailout, the chairman of the euro zone finance ministers said in an interview...

Hezbollah and Europe; Fears of terrorism in Britain; Society’s ills in Greece; North Korean envoy in China; the end of European tax havens; tackling youth unemployment; art fair in Hong Kong; Gibraltar’s soccer bid.    

Kim Kardashian is proud to show off her famous curves. The E! celeb recently enjoyed a family vacation to Greece, and the pregnant star was not about to spend her entire getaway in a...

In Greece, the perils of a drawn-out debt crisis are imprinted on its younger population — whose unemployment numbers are soaring — who turn to selling their bodies for money and to a dangerous, cheap new street drug for escape.    

It is not just temperatures and taxes that are going up in Greece ... so are the hemlines in the country’s parliament.

Investors may not be worrying quite so much about Greece at the moment but a new political party could change that. The Plan B party supports leaving the euro and returning to the drachma. Hayley Platt asks whether it's likely to do any harm to the country's recovery.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's bank rescue fund will aim to sell Hellenic Postbank and Proton by mid-July with big banks continuing to absorb small lenders as part of plans to revive the battered sector, the country's foreign lenders said in an inspection review.

Move to ensure olive oil is served in non-refillable bottles condemned as weirdest decision since curvy cucumber rulingEU bureaucrats have been ridiculed for shifting their focus from fighting the eurozone's debt crisis to impose strict rules on how restaurants serve olive oil.From 1 January eateries will be banned from serving oil to diners in small glass jugs or dipping...

Outgoing Bank of England governor blames regulatory failure for banking crisis and not individualsThe outgoing governor of the Bank of England has called on the British people not to "demonise" bankers for the financial crisis.Sir Mervyn King said on Sunday that the failings of the financial and regulatory system were the root cause of the turmoil which struck the world...

Obama rules out unilateral action in Syria as Russia ships advanced missiles to Assad Top news: U.S. President Barack Obama again ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria at a press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday. "It's not going to be something that the United States does by itself. And I don't think anybody in...

Latest EC report shows that Greece is on track to return to growth in 2014, but warns that jobless will remain over 20% in three yearsGraeme WeardenNick Fletcher    

Spanish Benedictine nun is emerging as one of the most outspoken – and atypical – leaders of southern Europe's far leftThe speedometer on Teresa Forcades' battered silver Peugeot saloon shows 130kmh, but Spain's most famously radical nun is so busy talking she seems oblivious to the 80kmh speed limit signs above the motorway near her Sant Benet convent on the slopes...

Greek high school teachers on Thursday called off a strike after the government essentially banned it by enacting an emergency law that threatened strikers with arrest or dismissal.    

The all-German Champions League final has helped to temper bad feeling between Germany and Greece over economic problems in Europe.    

EU-led conference agrees aid lifeline, but Europeans insist Mali must fulfil pledges to carry out democratic and social reformsAn EU-led donor conference agreed on Wednesday to provide €3.25bn (£2.7bn) to fund a sweeping development plan for Mali, but European donors made clear that the interim government must live up to its promises to implement democratic and social...

Headline Title:  Greece: Emergency action to thwart teachers’ strike unnecessary 15 May 2013 The use of special government measures to thwart a proposed teachers’ strike in Greece violates the country’s international human rights obligations, Amnesty...

Crises have a way of doing this to people: They ground them and strengthen their resolve, while they also make them see the flowers between the cracks and draw inspiration from them. And this is all the Greeks can count on, for now.

Senior analyst says coalition has chosen policies likely to 'fall on the back of the poor population groups'The OECD has warned that Britain faces rising levels of inequality by pursuing austerity polices that are widening the gulf between rich and poor.In a report examining the developed world's response to the global slowdown, the thinktank warns that the "financial...

Fitch raises country’s rating to B– from CCC, but new rating still deep in junk territory

Public faith in European unity has slumped as people become increasingly gloomy about economic conditions, according to Washington-based Pew InstitutePublic support for the European project has fallen and distrust between countries is growing, according to a new survey released overnight that shows the damage caused by the region's debt crisis over the last few years.The...

After playing for Seton Hall, Nick Galis inspired a nation by lifting Greece over the Soviet Union in the 1987 European championships, the highlight of his storied career. His former team, Aris, recently honored him.    

An internal chancellery report on reform plans around Europe notes that ‘further room for labour market liberalisation’ exists in Italy, while similar reforms in Spain and Greece ‘were essential’    

Back when I was a kid my birth country wasn't the land of debt defaults and massive layoffs, but it was already a very strange and extremely individualistic society.

Some of the world's biggest celebrities stepped out in New York City on Monday night for the annual Met Ball, which was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and celebrated the exhibit "Punk: Chaos to Couture."Jennifer Lawrence, Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kristen Stewart, Anne Hathaway, Miley Cyrus and more walked the red carpet in their best "punk" ensembles,...

In 2011, 142,394 cosmetic procedures were performed in the country of 11 million people - meaning an average of one in 79 Greeks has had procedures such as liposuction, eyelid corrections and Botox injections.

Country is keen not to become the sixth member of the bailout band: Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's recession-wracked economy should start recovering next year and its sky-high unemployment rate should edge lower from the end of 2014, the finance minister said in an interview broadcast Thursday....

Barry Wood reports on the controversial view by a European economist that Greece and Cyprus will have to leave the euro, but only temporarily.

Close to 30,000 packed their bags and headed to the European economic powerhouse

The UK only made number 23 in the worldwide Mother's Index. Finland was rated as the best place to have baby while the Democratic Republic of the Congo was found to be the world's toughest place to be a mother.

The UK only made number 23 in the worldwide Mother's Index. Finland was rated as the best place to have baby while the Democratic Republic of the Congo was found to be the world's toughest place to be a mother.

After completing its latest health check, the IMF concluded that Greece had made progress slashing debts and improving competitiveness. But it said ‘very little progress’ had been made in tackling tax evasion.

Greece must do more to fight its "notorious" tax evasion if the country is to remain on course to reduce its budget deficit, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.    

Tax evasion by the wealthy and self-employed is leaving those on salaries and pensions to bear brunt of austerity measuresGreece has not done enough to clamp down on "notorious tax evasion" by the rich and self-employed, leaving those on salaries and pensions to take most of the pain from the austerity measures imposed as part of the country's €240bn (£202bn) bailout,...

Labour reforms also punish wage earners, pensioners

Dymphna Byrne exercises mind and body as she embarks on a Classical Greek Journey with an eclectic bunch of hikers.

Kim Kardashian is back in L.A. after vacationing in Greece with her family and reuniting with Kanye West in Paris. The 32-year-old soon-to-be mom landed in Los Angeles on Friday, with...

Kim Kardashian is back in L.A. after vacationing in Greece with her family and reuniting with Kanye West in Paris. The 32-year-old soon-to-be mom landed in Los Angeles on Friday, with...

Health experts warn of growing threat from 'exotic' diseasesLeading health experts are urging the government to take action against the growing threat that mosquito-borne diseases, including potentially fatal malaria, could soon arrive in the UK.The disturbing recommendation to "act now before it is too late" is being made as a growing body of evidence indicates that what...

PREGNANT reality star jets off to Houston, Texas, just a day after arriving back in LA from Greece, Paris and London

Commission in favor of granting country two more years to meet EU deficit target

ECB's governing council makes a quarter-point cut in interest rates to boost recession-hit economiesMario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, has delivered an emergency quarter-point cut in interest rates in a bid to kickstart the recession-hit eurozone economy.After holding its policy meeting in Bratislava on Thursday, the ECB's governing council announced...

Despite the global financial threats, the Israeli economy is still in the black and more healthy than the economies of Greece and Cyprus.

Greece and its international bailout lenders must adopt a human rights-based approach to economic reform, a United Nations expert reiterated today, warning that some austerity measures are undermining people’s access to jobs, health, water and energy.

The 33 per cent share deal worth €712m agreed with Greek and eastern European investors will be the country’s largest state asset sale to date

• Far right party to distribute treats to 'Greeks only'• Officials fear damage to country's image abroadThe mayor's office in Athens is poised for a major stand-off over food handouts in Syntagma square on Thursday after the far-right Golden Dawn party vowed to press ahead with the distribution of Easter treats to "Greeks only" amid mounting European pressure for the...

Bangladeshi workers demand safer conditions after building collapse, while thousands call for end to austerity in EuropeThousands of workers marched on May Day in central Dhaka to demand safer working conditions and the death penalty for the owner of a building housing garment factories that collapsed last week in the country's worst industrial disaster, killing at least...

In Greece’s first major privatization deal since the country’s debt crisis erupted three years ago, the government will sell a controlling stake in OPAP to Emma Delta.    

With unemployment at record highs and the eurozone in recession, Europe's annual May Day holiday will be marked with a strike in Greece, and rallies in major citiesGraeme Wearden    

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Ferry and train services in Greece have ground to a halt as unions hold a strike for May Day....

ATHENS/MADRID (Reuters) - Trains and ferries were canceled and hospital staff walked off the job in Greece on Wednesday and thousands were due to demonstrate across Spain as May Day triggered protests against harsh government spending cuts.

Officials greet result with relief as deal drafted amid calls for island to exit eurozone is passed by majority of just two votesCyprus moved a step closer on Tuesday to receiving much-needed aid when its parliament narrowly endorsed a bailout deal drafted amid unprecedented acrimony and calls for the island to exit the eurozone.In a nail-biting ballot, following hours...

The levy applied to popular Thomas Cook and Thomson hotels and apartments in Spain, Greece and Turkey. Both firms admitted the pricing discrepancy existed.

The 32-year-old star got stuck into the bread rolls on the island of Santorini as the reality show clan enjoyed dinner together against the island's stunning backdrop.

The Greek parliament has voted to adopt a law that provides for the dismissal of 15,000 civil servants as part of austerity measures imposed by the country's international creditors.    

The aid comes after Greek lawmakers approved a controversial plan to dismiss 15,000 civil servants by the end of next year.    

Madrid - Atos, an international information technologies services company, is the coordinating partner of the ARTIST European project, which is developing a set of methods, tools and techniques to fac...

How could someone seriously be miserable about being made to go on a trip to Greece? Well, you might be if it takes you away from your man during a time when you want to be with him the most! And that’s just the sitch Kim and Khloe Kardashian are finding themselves in as they’re vacationing in [...]

Kim, Kourtney and Khloé swim, sun and cruise in Greece

EU member states vote ushers in continent-wide suspension of neonicotinoid pesticides • Have your say: is the EU right to ban pesticides?Europe will enforce the world's first continent-wide ban on widely used insecticides linked to serious harm in bees, after a European commission vote on Monday.The landmark suspension is a victory for millions of environment campaigners...

Measures needed to clinch crucial financing from foreign creditors

Greece has implemented an agreement with EU-IMF inspectors by passing a law that should see €2.8bn in overdue rescue funds flow to Athens

ATHENS (Reuters) - Two people drowned and eight are missing after two cargo ships collided off southwestern Greece early on Monday, the Greek coastguard said.

It's been a very bad week for the merchants of austerity. In Europe, the just-released statistics on first quarter performance show EU nations sliding deeper into recession. In Spain and Greece, unemployment rates are approaching a staggering 30 percent. In Britain, the Tory government took as good news the fact that the UK managed to eke out 0.3 percent growth. Even Germany,...

Kim Kardashian and her baby bump seem to be enjoying the family vacation in Greece. The E! star flashed a smile for the camera earlier today as she was strutting her famous curves...

The contentious plan would dismiss 15,000 civil servants by the end of next year as part of a new package of economic measures.    

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek lawmakers on Sunday approved a reform law to unlock about 8.8 billion euros ($8.9 billion) of rescue loans from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's Parliament approved an emergency bill Sunday to pave the way for thousands of public sector layoffs and free up 8.8 billion euros ($11.5 billion) in international rescue loans....

PREGNANT reality TV star shows off her huge baby bump and bulging cleavage as she holidays in Greece

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The reigning Euroleague champion, Olympiakos of Greece, qualified for the event’s Final Four with a home win over Anadolu Efes Istanbul.    

Kim Kardashian is truly in the bloom of pregnancy now. The E! star, trading in her signature fitted styles for a bright, flowing sarong today while on vacation with her family in...

Kim Kardashian is truly in the bloom of pregnancy now. The E! star, trading in her signature fitted styles for a bright, flowing sarong today while on vacation with her family in...