Sports Calendar

Iranian rulers increase isolation from West

Tehran’s isolation deepens after regime bans contact with more than 60 respected Western organisations, including the BBC

EADS threatens to drop A400M

Row escalates over demand for contributions from seven countries with orders for delayed military transport aircraft

French elite colleges revolt against Sarkozy

Top universities refuse government order to take 30 per cent of students from low income and immigrant families

French revolutionary ideal that changed direction

Specialised colleges were designed to groom the best and brightest but now they favour only the rich

Iceland out in the cold

President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has shown the country is at war with itself and unsure who is to blame for the crisis

Passenger guinea pig held after explosives planted

An unwitting Slovak flying back to Dublin had explosives planted on him as a test — and no one was told for three days

Warning signs were ignored

From the moment that Britain declared no saver should lose a penny from the crisis the country’s taxpayers were on the hook

Britain threatens to freeze Iceland out of EU

London responds furiously after President Grimsson abruptly vetoed the repayment of a £3.6 billion loan to the Treasury

COMMENT: Veto could freeze Iceland's EU hopes

The row over whether Iceland should compensate those hit by its banking collapse has revealed a country at war with itself

Police give left-footed shoe thieves the boot

Gang stole left shoes from shop displays in Sweden and matched them with items pilfered over the border in Copenhagen

Hallyday daughter in suicide attempt

Johnny Hallyday, whose recently narrowly escaped death, faces further trauma as his daughter reportedly tries to commit suicide

Spain's ambitious plans for Brussels

Its six-month presidency faces daunting hurdles for Spain, especially with a new EU president and 'foreign minister'

2010 - Europe's year of drama and crisis? Monday January 4, 1pm

Arrested Somali linked to plot to kill Clinton

The man who broke into the home of the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was earlier held by the Kenyan authorities

Parisian clubbers win right to party all night

France rediscovers its joie de vivre and extends opening hours

Pope sends his secretary to visit attacker

Father Georg Gaenswein visits Susanna Maiolo at secure psychiatric unit to 'show the Pope's interest and benevolence'

The French empire strikes back

Its colonies are wildly expensive and troublesome, but France is too proud to let the sun set on the 'outre-mer'

Panic room saved artist from assassin

The cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, attacked at home by an axe-wielding extremist survived by fleeing to a fortified room

Vuitton tycoon gallops into row over stags

Patrick-Louis Vuitton was accused of excessive zeal in pursuing stags onto private property with no permission to hunt

British gallery in secret Chagall scoop

The London Jewish Museum of Art picked up a painting worth hundreds of thousands of pounds in Paris for just over £25,000