Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has appealed for the US and Britain to adopt the "strongest means" against Russia.

A Jerusalem Post photographer has snapped a completely unplanned and highly awkward photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German leader Angela Merkel.

An independent Scotland would find it extremely difficult if not impossible to join the European Union, the President of the European Commission has warned.

An Italian MP has “blacked up” to deliver a staggering anti-immigration rant in the country’s parliament.

Europe faces a vital week in an increasingly vicious tussle with Russia over the future of Ukraine.

Anthony Peregrine sees the best of Nice, a magnet to the rich for centuries.

Funded by the European Union to the tune of $140 million, a deft bit of reinvention has turned France's drug and crime epicentre into the nation's Capital of Culture. Jenna Hand goes along for the ride.

"Who should bear which liabilities in the event of a banking collapse?" asks Bryan Gould. "The NZ proposal is an astonishing assault both on the property rights of depositors and on confidence in the banking system."

Hostility to the European Union is mainly an English thing, writes Gwynne Dyer, but that matters a lot in the United Kingdom, where 55 million of the kingdom's 65 million people live in England.

The Scots, the Catalans and the Basques tend to see themselves as victims, but nobody else does, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Clear cut results are thin on the ground but Prime Minister John Key said today he was happy with this year's Apec economic meeting in Vladivostok, Russia.