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Leading role in crisis for rich states

Greece is in a terrible financial mess, born of its own neglect, but it is, after all, small. So why does it matter?

State workers slam overhaul of Greek economy

Angry public service workers begin nationwide day of action against Government that is trying to stave off bankruptcy

Q&A: The Greek financial crisis

Why Greece is troubling the financial markets, and its implications for the eurozone

Pope hits out at 'offensive' smear accusations

A campaign by a pro-Berlusconi paper to oust a newspaper editor was based on 'falsified documents' stemming from Vatican

France's big conversation peters out

National debate that was supposed to redefine French identity closes amid token gestures and political recrimination

Six British soldiers in court over Spanish brawl

Servicemen face court accused of attacking customers in a Lanzarote restaurant in a mass brawl on Saturday night

Tymoshenko under pressure to concede

Orange Revolution leader's bid to remain Prime Minister appears to have collapsed as pro-Moscow rival rules out alliance with her

Philosopher becomes laughing stock of Left Bank

Rivals cheer as France’s most famous thinker draws on the entirely made-up works of hoax philosopher behind ‘Botulism’

Philosopher-king not first to lose clothes

The embarrassment of Bernard-Henri Lévy is particularly exquisite because he was not the target of a sting

Tymoshenko refuses to concede in Ukraine

Viktor Yanukovych’s lead over Ms Tymoshenko shrank to 2.4 percentage points with a handful of regions yet to report

Texts to Greece save tourist in New Zealand

When Greek tourist Marios Symeonidis became lost on a mountain in New Zealand, he sent text messages home for help

Yanukovych claims narrow Ukraine poll victory

Exit polls showed that Yuliya Tymoshenko, leader of the Orange Revolution, had been beaten by only three percentage points

Swiss businessmen freed by Libya

Move clears way for businessmen to leave after being trapped in the country for 19 months

Architecture group stops demolition of Paris ghetto

Residents of a vast council estate were delighted at £131m plans for redevelopment, but critics say it is an historic monument

French riot police clear migrants' warehouse

Up to 90 people, mainly Afghans, broke through a police cordon to enter the warehouse rented by left-wing activists in Calais

Teenage matador triumphs killing six bulls

A 16-year-old Spanish matador has killed six bulls in one afternoon, a feat normally attempted by only the best bullfighters

French ‘smear’ Britain’s EU chief

Officials in Paris are said to be upset that Baroness Ashton does not speak French and surrounds herself with British advisers