European News

Brussels says it hopes European aerospace group EADS was not prevented from fairly bidding for a major US defence deal.

Dutch bishops order an inquiry into alleged sexual abuses of children by Catholic priests, threatening a new scandal.

The US apologises for comments made after Libya's Col Gaddafi called for a holy war against Switzerland.

Research shows some EU countries "import" about a third of their carbon emissions from developing countries.

Seven people are arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

President Barack Obama has 'responded positively' to calls to clamp down on market speculators, says the Greek PM after talks.

A ransom was demanded for the stolen and now-recovered body of Cyprus ex-President Papadopoulos, a minister says.

The Northern Ireland assembly votes in favour of a motion passing control of justice and policing from London to Belfast.

Row as Irish crunch match Munster v Leinster is a mouth-watering clash for any rugby fan, but most drinkers in the Irish Republic wanting to toast the Magners League fixture in a bar next month will have to leave the country.

The sale of papers belonging to a 16th Century Italian scholar credited with founding European art history is called off at the last moment.