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Russian Orthodox priests carry the coffin of Father Daniil Sysoyev

Faith leaders call for calm as murdered priest is buried

Religious tensions rise after death of man who converted Muslims to Christianity

Inside Europe

Sex and cheese as Sarkozys meet The Simpsons

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni have entered the only real pantheon of international celebrity – by being parodied in The Simpsons. A short clip of their unauthorised, and rather uncomplimentary, appearance has become one of the most-viewed clips on the French-language internet in the past few days.

A Parisian woman makes the most of the self-service bike hire scheme

Taxpayers ride to rescue of Paris bike-hire scheme

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Public funds used to bail out Vélib project after 26,000 bicycles are stolen or wrecked

Clara Petacci, Mussolini's mistress in 1938, and Patrizia D'Addario

Italian stallions: The sex lives of Mussolini and Berlusconi

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Mistress's diary reveals Mussolini's lust, while memoir tells all on Berlusconi.

Incumbent president wins first round of Romanian vote

Monday, 23 November 2009

Incumbent President Traian Basescu won the first round of Romania's presidential election last night, and will face leftist leader Mircea Geoana in a Dec. 6 runoff, exit polls showed

Tony Paterson: The bratwurst is yet to come

Monday, 23 November 2009

Berlin Diary: Today sees the opening of the first of the 60 Christmas fairs that have mushroomed throughout the city

Amanda Knox in court in Perugia

Tearful Knox hears prosecutor demand life sentence for her

Sunday, 22 November 2009

She killed a British student because she hated and resented her, says lawyer

Prague celebrates the overthrow of Communism in Czechoslovakia

The accidental uprising: How 'corpse' killed Communism

Sunday, 22 November 2009

Twenty years after the Velvet Revolution, Victor Sebestyen recalls how the Czech regime fell to a hapless secret plot.

Lady Ashton... well, at least she's not Tony

Sunday, 22 November 2009

As Baroness Ashton of Upholland, the European Union's new High Representative for Foreign Affairs, this weekend surveys her grand suite of offices, with a special corner for her life-sized Dalek, she might still be wondering how on earth she got there.

Former private investigator Robert Eringer says he was hired to root out corruption

I was Prince Albert of Monaco's private spook

Sunday, 22 November 2009

Ex-novelist who ran intelligence service for Monte Carlo's royal family relaunches legal action against his old boss

The new EU President, Herman van Rompuy, smiles as he leaves his office after a meeting in Brussels yesterday

The world greets new EU President

Saturday, 21 November 2009

John Lichfield: Waves of polite puzzlement circled the globe yesterday as leaders adjusted to the news that the EU President would be a mild-mannered, competent manager rather than a charismatic new "face" for Europe.

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