Updated: Eurozone inflation holds steady at low rate of 0.2 percent
Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 11:15
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Lower energy costs kept a lid on inflation across the 19-country eurozone economy in the year to December. Official figures Tuesday show that consumer price inflation held steady at 0.2 percent...
Updated: French President honours Charlie Hebdo, kosher market victims
Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 11:08
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
French President Francois Hollande is honouring 17 victims killed in Islamic extremist attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a kosher market and police a year ago this week, unveiling plaques...
After daunting 2015, European Union faces year of living dangerously
Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 08:59
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
If the year that was turned out to be daunting, 2016 is shaping up as the European Union's year of living dangerously. The cliffhanger to keep Greece from bankruptcy and in the euro currency...
Oil prices fall even with spat between two big producers
Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 06:44
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
It turns out that thanks to a glut of crude, even tension between two big oil-producing countries isn't enough to drive prices higher. Oil futures spiked briefly on Monday after the news...
Deliberate acts cause more airline deaths than crashes
Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 06:42
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
There were more airline deaths worldwide due to deliberate acts in 2015 than to accidental air crashes for the second year in a row, according to an industry tally. There were only eight...
Canada investigates why 6-year-old is listed as travel risk
Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 06:38
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Canada's public safety minister has promised to investigate the case of a six-year-old boy whose name appears to be on a travel security risk list. The Ontario boy's father tweeted a photo from...
Migrant who walked 31 miles through Channel Tunnel is free to stay
Monday, 4 January 2016, 19:52
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
A decision to grant asylum to an African migrant who walked through the Channel Tunnel to reach Britain could encourage others to take the same risk, tunnel bosses claimed today. Abdul Haroun,...