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.

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.

Britain's beleagured Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made a big gaffe in the lead-up to the election.

Mars, Hershey, Cadbury and Nestle are being accused of conspiring to push up prices of their chocolate bars over most of the last decade.