G8 pledges to boost food supplies
Leaders of G8 nations agree a $20bn effort to boost agriculture in the developing world at their summit in Italy.

French 'Barbarian' killer jailed
The leader of a Paris gang known as the Barbarians is jailed for life for the torture and murder of a Jewish man in 2006.

Turkey attacks China 'genocide'
Turkey's prime minister says ethnic violence in China's Xinjiang region is "a kind of genocide", as the death toll passes 180.

EU seizures of fake goods up 125%
Seizures of counterfeit goods being smuggled into the European Union (EU) more than doubled last year, official figures show.

Air France box search winds down
French ships with US listening devices are ending their hunt for the black boxes of a jet lost over the Atlantic in June.

Bull gores man to death in Spain
A young Spanish man is fatally gored at Spain's Pamplona bull run - the first such death at the event for 14 years.

New autopsy after French unrest
A second autopsy is ordered on the body of a man whose death in police custody caused rioting in a French town.

Herschel shows breadth of vision
The Herschel space telescope’s "first light" images demonstrate a remarkable capability even though its set-up is incomplete.

Gaddafi and Brown in first talks
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and UK PM Gordon Brown discuss the Lockerbie bomber at their first talks, at the G8 in Italy.

Ooh la la! 'Rude' French seen as world's worst tourists
A new survey has found that hotel owners view French tourists as the meanest and rudest in the world.

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Tour de France - stage seven as it happened
Italy's Rinaldo Nocentini snatches the yellow jersey in the mountains at the end of a dramatic stage seven, a marathon 224km trek from Barcelona to Andorra Arcalis.

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Football: 'Crazy' transfers worry Benitez
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez reveals his club are struggling to compete in an over-heated summer transfer market.

Hijab killing
Anger in Egypt over Muslim stabbed in Germany

Pledge time
What have the G8 leaders achieved at the summit in Italy?

Religious revival
Dutch turn to frugal Calvinism in hard economic times

'Barbarian' case
Inside the murder trial of a French gang leader

Less is more
Diamond capital Antwerp deals with the downturn

Time to rebuild
Hard life back home for Roma who fled Belfast in terror

UK monarchy turns to Twitter
The micro-blogging revolution has reached Buckingham Palace as a Twitter account for the British Monarchy goes live.

Dutch hand back looted Iraqi art
The Netherlands returns dozens of ancient artefacts to Iraq, after police discover they were stolen after the 2003 invasion.

Get tough with Russia, MPs urge
The UK and other Nato members should take a tougher approach to relations with Russia, an MPs' committee urges.

Russia 'shot down its own planes'
A report in a Russian military journal claims that half the planes Russia lost in its war with Georgia were shot down by friendly fire.

US-Russian deal linked to Iran
A top US arms control expert stresses the link between a new strategic arms deal with Russia and pressuring Iran.

Saffron - Italy's red gold
Artisan producers weathering the financial storm

Europe's Uighurs
European links to Uighurs in China's ethnic riots

Tracing Roma origins
Tracing the Roma from Indian origins to European plight

Profile: Jose Manuel Barroso
What is driving EU Commission President Barroso?

German exports spark economy hope
German exports rose 0.3% in May from the month before, raising hopes of a tentative economic recovery.

Switzerland thwarts US tax deal
Switzerland is trying to ensure UBS does not hand over account details to the US, citing national bank secrecy rules.