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EU ministers work through the night on euro rescue plan
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.

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

Europe to study UK election for policy shift
Britain's general election tomorrow night will be closely followed elsewhere in Europe.

Is that a candle - or a consignment of cocaine?
Cocaine smugglers are literally turning the drug into innocent-looking plasticware and candles - the latest trick to fool customs officers.

Greece agrees to savage cuts
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.

No Easter cheer for US chocolate firms
Mars, Hershey, Cadbury and Nestle are being accused of conspiring to push up prices of their chocolate bars over most of the last decade.

EU approves sale of F***ing beer
A new German beer, which incorporates the potentially derogatory name of an Austrian town, has just been given full European Union approval.