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The European Central Bank (ECB) today announced a programme of technical cooperation with the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in collaboration with a number of euro area national central banks (NCBs).
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In the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, a roadside bomb went off near a police checkpost on Thursday killing four people and injuring at least 8 others.
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These women are all single, and all share the same goal - to find a husband.
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Plans to step up EU funding to develop innovative low-carbon technologies to help cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 were welcomed in a resolution approved by Parliament on Thursday.
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EU overhauls selection procedure for civil servants, shifting the focus from formal knowledge to actual knowhow.
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The village of Caravaggio in Italy is famous as the birthplace of its namesake, the painter Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio.
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Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong says his new Radio Shack team is ready to compete for the Tour‘s yellow jersey this year.
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The EU disbursed today €1 billion to Romania, the second instalment of a €5 billion loan, which was agreed in May 2009 as part of a multilateral financial assistance package.
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The EU Solidarity Fund must be mobilised "in the most urgent and flexible way and to the greatest possible extent" to help the areas hit by severe storms in February, as soon as the national governments have submitted their aid requests, said MEPs in Strasbourg on Thursday morning.
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In three urgent resolutions adopted on Thursday, Parliament urges Hamas to release kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, deplores the escalating criminal violence in Mexico and calls on South Korea to scrap the death penalty.
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Another acceleration incident involving a Toyota Prius. 61-year-old James Sikes said his car accelerated uncontrollably to over 90 miles per hour on a San Diego County freeway before a California Highway Patrol officer helped him stop the car.
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European cities may still be feeling the pinch of the global recession.
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The EBRD Board of Directors has approved a $50 million convertible loan to Petrolinvest to finance the completion of exploration works at the company’s main oilfields.
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More than ever, children's health is at risk from a changing environment.
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This March 11, Lithuania will commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Restoration of Independence.
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To help handle demand of internet use world wide giant Cisco is unveiling a new router -the CRS-3- that it says will handle Internet traffic 12 times faster than rival products.
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March 4, finishing ceremony of training for leading officers of Afghan National Police was held in Chaghcharan, capital of Ghowr.
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On 9 March in Riga, Lithuania’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius took part in bilateral consultations between foreign ministries of Lithuania and Latvia.
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During the cold war the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was the cornerstone of international efforts to control the balance of nuclear bomb-making technology.
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New EU rules to strengthen the effectiveness of air accident investigations across Europe will be presented, for the first time, by Siim Kallas, Vice-President responsible for transport, to EU transport ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday (11 March).
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