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Belgian Prime Minsiter Herman Van Rompuy and EU Commissioner for trade Catherine Ashton

European leaders choose the path of least resistance

Brown sacrifices support for Blair to win foreign minister role for UK

Inside Europe

Maite Roel, the youngest victim of the First World War, has no interest in the conflict that left her in hospital for two years - 74 years after the conflict ended

WW1's 26-year-old victim

Friday, 20 November 2009

Robert Fisk : An encounter with an unexploded RAF bomb changed Maité Roël's life for ever.

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The Etruscan Roots of The Twilight Saga

Friday, 20 November 2009

Were there vampires in Volterra? Probably not, but the Etruscans had their own brigade of gods and demons representing night, death and resurrection.

<b>Candidate for foreign ministry: Catherine Ashton<br>  <p>Odds: 6/1</p>  <p>Selling point: As a woman, she would go some way to reassure those who fear the Brussels hierarchy will not be representative of the continent.</p>  <p>Handicap: Despite her current position as EU Trade Commissioner, she has a relatively low profile.</p>

Baroness Ashton's EU role 'gives Britain a powerful voice'

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Gordon Brown insisted tonight that Britain would remain a powerful voice in Brussels after Labour peer Baroness Ashton was appointed as the European Union's first foreign minister.

<b>Candidate for the presidency: Herman van Rompuy<br>  <p>Odds: 4/7</p>  <p>Selling point: Belgian PM has held fractious country together – good preparation for acting as glue for the 27 disparate EU states. Comes from a core, founding member and "small state". The favourite.</p>  <p>Handicap: Lacks a wow factor in Washington and Beijing.</p>

The EU job contest dawns (don't wait up)

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Will the new President be a Belgian, a Latvian, or even a Brit? Only one thing is certain: it won't be a snap decision

Italy's Northern League in 'White Christmas' immigrant purge

Thursday, 19 November 2009

The local council of the northern Italian town of Coccaglio is dreaming of a White Christmas this year.

Amanda Knox in court in Perugia, she denies killing Meredith Kercher

Meredith murder suspect 'argued with her'

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Man convicted of murder says he heard her arguing with Amanda Knox minutes before her death.

Former SS man charged with 58 murders after student traces him

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

A former SS sergeant who worked unnoticed for decades as manager of a rail station has been charged with 58 counts of murder after a student doing undergraduate research uncovered his alleged involvement in a massacre of Jewish forced labourers.

Till death us do not part: French woman marries dead fiancé

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

The bride wore white but, as the mayor sadly pointed out, she was a widow before she left the town hall. By special permission of the French President, Magali Jaskiewicz, a 26-year-old-mother of two from eastern France, has married her dead fiancé.

Tony Blair's candidature seems to have been doomed from the start

Nothing presidential about new EU president's job

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

World Focus: European Union

90-year-old charged with Jewish massacre

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

The former SS member has been charged with 58 murders for the 1945 killings of forced labourers in Austria.

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