In the past fortnight the privacy debate over Facebook has developed into what some excitable commentators are calling a "firestorm of anger".

Ruben van Assouw joins a list of more than a dozen known examples of sole survivors from air disasters.

Schoolchildren in several French towns have joined wildcat strikes against a government plan to cut a month from their summer holidays.

The Netherlands has gone into mourning over the deaths of at least 61 Dutch citizens among the 104 people on a plane that crashed in Libya.

EU ministers struggled overnight to work out a new rescue mechanism for troubled governments in an attempt to keep markets from targeting weaker eurozone members before Asian markets open this morning.

The opening of Europe's financial markets tonight will unleash a battle that may decide the fate of the single currency.

Riots over harsh new austerity measures left three bank workers dead and engulfed the streets of Athens overnight.

A general strike in Greece over the next 24 hours is expected to paralyse the country.

Britain's general election tomorrow night will be closely followed elsewhere in Europe.

Cocaine smugglers are literally turning the drug into innocent-looking plasticware and candles - the latest trick to fool customs officers.

Greece and the wider eurozone scrambled back from the brink of disaster again on Friday as the outline of an IMF/eurozone rescue package emerged.