Fresh details emerge of how financier accused of one of the world's biggest frauds was tracked down

It could be the unusual weather, disease, or both, but something is laying waste to Gallic fisheries

Julian Assange could walk free from his Ecuadorian embassy hide-out next year if he takes advantages of a new legal loophole, campaigners say.

Tax fraudster may use community service as publicity stunt

Comparisons to the Kennedys and the Bushes are exaggerated, but if Silvio Berlusconi’s criminal conviction makes it politically impossible for him to continue at the head of his party after the summer, there is a strong chance that another Berlusconi will take his place – Marina Berlusconi, his eldest daughter, who at present heads both Fininvest, his financial holding company, and Mondadori, Italy’s biggest book publisher, acquired by her father in controversial circumstances.

When asked why he robbed banks, the legendary American criminal Willie Sutton replied: “Because that’s where the money is?”

An English woman teaching in Spain was on the train before it crashed. Oscar Quine hears her story

Former premier faces community service or house arrest after judges uphold jail term

At least three countries are queuing up to try the billionaire banker for alleged embezzlement on ‘an epic scale’

The first day of August is popularly known in Spain as Operación Salida (Operation Exit). But those expecting the country’s embattled Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, to join the millions of Spaniards making their annual mass exodus from the towns and cities and quit – in a political sense – were left sorely disappointed.

Minister confirms that athletes and fans who ‘flaunt’ their sexuality will be prosecuted

‘Most wanted man on Earth’ leaves Moscow airport for secret safe house after agreeing to stop leaking US information

Spain's prime minister has made an unexpected confession that he was wrong to trust his former party financial chief for so many years but denies the ex-treasurer's allegations that the party ran a slush fund.

Greeks fearing attacks by anarchists will no longer be entitled to free police bodyguards in the latest cost-cutting plan from a government trying to meet budget targets set by international creditors.

Balkan state keen to recruit French  politician to aid its ailing economy