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A protest in Barcelona against plans to raise Spain's retirement age to 67

Europe's winter of discontent

Strikes threaten to cause paralysis as workers reject government attempts to cut spending and wages

Inside Europe

The vacant house in Dublin given as a home address by one of the assassins

Taoiseach link to address used by Dubai killer

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Dublin house owned by brother of former Irish PM Albert Reynolds

Bishop Margot Kässmann, the chief representative of Germany’s 25 million Protestants

Bishop who preached about 'excess' caught drink-driving

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

First woman in Germany to lead Protestants was more than three times over limit

A poster from an anti-smoking campaign by Les Droits des Non-fumeurs

French in uproar over oral sex anti-smoking posters

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

French advertising companies are often criticised for using sexual images to sell everything from designer spectacles to sweetcorn.

Turkish military chiefs quizzed over coup plot

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Prosecutors were interrogating 51 Turkish military commanders yesterday about alleged plans to destabilise the country by blowing up mosques to trigger a coup and topple the Islamic-rooted government.

Euro MPs fight to restore wonky fruit ban

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Euro-MPs went bananas today - voting to a restore a European ban on the sale of wonky fruit and veg.

Turkish military figures questioned over 'coup plot'

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Turkish investigators grill dozens of senior military figures as the opposition accuses government of score-settling.

Hungary criminalises holocaust denial

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Hungary's parliament approved a bill making Holocaust denial punishable by up to three years in prison, but the measure may be unconstitutional.

Portugal's government has promised more financial aid for the island

Sniffer dogs search flood debris for Madeira's missing four

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Emergency crews used sniffer dogs yesterday to search through huge piles of debris for at least four people still missing in Madeira yesterday after flash floods and rockslides killed 42 people.

British couple killed as Spanish home collapses

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

A British couple were killed in southern Spain when the house they were staying in collapsed, the Foreign Office confirmed today.

TV presenter Elena Skordelli is accused of hiring hit-men to kill Andis Hadjicostis

Did TV star Elena Skordelli murder the man who sacked her?

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

John Lichfield: Court case that opens in Cyprus tomorrow is worthy of any soap opera.

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Mark Steel: You can teach birth control but you'll end in hell if you do it

There's no other subject schools can teach with their version of the truth

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Terence Blacker: Please stop sermonising over Ashley

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