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A Russian police officer guards a damaged coach at the site of a train derailment near the town of Uglovka

Home-made bomb derails Russian express, killing 26

Death toll expected to rise, as police search for men who planted device on Moscow-St Petersburg track

Inside Europe

Posters of the far-right Swiss People's Party depicting a woman wearing a burqa against a background of a Swiss flag with several minarets. It reads in French 'Stop - Yes to the ban on minarets'

Swiss vote on minaret construction ban  new

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Polls indicate growing support for ban on minaret construction, but doubt remains about whether it will pass.

Amanda Knox, accused of killing her British housemate two-years ago, faces questions during her trial in Perugia

Now Knox parents investigated for defaming police

Sunday, 29 November 2009

As Seattle couple fly in for end of the trial, they face inquiry for claiming their daughter was abused

Sir Paul McCartney says eating less meat will also help feed the world

Sir Paul to tell EU: 'Less meat means less heat'

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Rearing fewer animals for food will slow global warming, says the former Beatle – and he's interrupting his European tour to tell world leaders how

Roman Polanski's chalet, 'Milky Way', in Gstaad

Swiss prepare Polanski's house arrest

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Security experts yesterday started preparing Roman Polanski's Alpine chalet for the film director's house arrest while Swiss authorities consider whether to extradite him to the United States.

Rescue workers at the scene of an overturned wagon  of a Moscow-St. Petersburg passenger train

Bomb suspected in Russian crash

Saturday, 28 November 2009

At least 39 people were killed and nearly 100 injured when a Russian express train came off the rails last night in what is being investigated as a bomb attack.

John Lichfield: Forget the gas – Europe needs to get tough with Russia

Saturday, 28 November 2009

World Focus: Russia

Michel Barnier will oversee internal markets

France beats Britain in race for key EU job

Saturday, 28 November 2009

Plum post will oversee the financial services industry – including the City

Amanda Knox arrives for her trial in a Perugia court yesterday

Knox called 'she-devil' by murder trial lawyer

Saturday, 28 November 2009

Demand for life sentence for American accused of killing British student

Merkel ally accused of covering up fatal air strike resigns

Saturday, 28 November 2009

A senior ally of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, quit the cabinet yesterday after being accused of covering up details of an air strike that killed civilians in Afghanistan when he was Defence Minister.

Minaret poll casts a dark shadow over Switzerland

Saturday, 28 November 2009

As referendum looms, supporters of ban accused of racism and Islamophobia

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