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Rudy Guede will serve 16 years for his part in the British student's murder

Kercher killer has sentence cut in half after appeal

An Italian court of appeal yesterday reduced the prison sentence for the first person convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher from 30 years to 16.

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Second bishop resigns over Irish abuse inquiry  new

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

A second Irish bishop dramatically resigned today over the damning findings of a state clerical child abuse inquiry.

French students cry liberté over right to wear sexy clothes

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Schools across France are facing revolts from students demanding the right to wear raunchy clothing banned by educators.

Adams brother speaks to police over abuse claims

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

A brother of Gerry Adams wanted on suspicion of sexually abusing his daughter has handed himself in to police.

Angela Merkel was triumphantly re-elected in September. She is by far the most assured, and secure, political leader in Europe

Review of the Year 2009: The EU

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Let's hear it for the grand tradition of Euro-muddle

£375m cocaine seized on UK-bound ship

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

A ship carrying cocaine worth up to £375 million destined for the British market was seized off the Spanish coast today.

Roman Polanski's plea rejected in court

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

In a case that has polarised public passions, director Roman Polanski did not win his freedom yesterday for a 32-year-old sex offence, but an appeals court said in a strongly worded opinion there was probable judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in his case.

The 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign is unloaded, following it's recovery, from a police vehicle in Krakow

Auschwitz sign was 'stolen for trophy hunters'

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Arrested men were professional criminals 'without links to extremists'

Rescue workers at the site where the Air France Concorde crashed after take-off

The Big Moment: 'We didn't hear a noise when it crashed. All of a sudden, everything was black'

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Concorde crashes in Paris, Tuesday 25 July 2000

Magnificent animals: A group of Siberian tigers like the ones that died in the circus truck

Russian circus tigers and lioness die on truck

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Eight circus tigers and a lioness died during a 20-hour journey in an enclosed and heated truck across Siberia, and Russian police are investigating whether they might have been suffocated by exhaust fumes or sickened with food poisoning.

Pope Pius XII leaves the presidential palace in Berlin in 1927. The controversial former pontiff was moved a step closer to sainthood on Saturday

Anger as Pope Pius XII moves closer to sainthood

Monday, 21 December 2009

Robert Mickens: One month before first synagogue visit, Pope Benedict advances case of 'silent' predecessor

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