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A group of Italian airport baggage handlers accused of stealing passengers' valuables were arrested on Friday after police installed hidden cameras in the cargo holds of aircraft to catch them red-handed.

Record levels of unemployment and shrinking investment means the eurozone's economy will contract more than expected in 2013, the first ever two-year slump for the single currency area, according to European Commission figures today.

Sixty-three days after he stunned the world by resigning the papacy, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was flown by helicopter back to the Vatican, where he will live out the rest of his days.

An attempt by members of Greece's far-Right, anti-immigrant Golden Dawn political party to hand out emergency food rations to Greeks only was broken up by police firing tear gas on Thursday.

One in two London businesses says they will suffer if Britain stays in the European Union without reforms.

Spanish police have busted a gang of drug traffickers who used jet skis to smuggle vast amounts of hashish across the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco.

Carla Bruni, the wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, has revealed how she struggled being pregnant in her 40s.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI moved back to the Vatican today in the wake of his historic resignation.

France was facing a fresh public health scandal on Thursday after it transpired 650 people had been fitted with hip replacements without European safety certification.

Germany's public broadcaster ZDF is to stop showing reruns of the popular TV crime show 'Derrick' after it emerged its late star belonged to the Waffen SS.

Hidden for more than five centuries, figures of naked men wearing feathered head-dresses could be first Western depiction of Native Americans.

The oldest known male survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, whose life was documented in the book and film 'Unbroken Will', has died aged 107.

Members of Greek extremist political party Golden Dawn try to open a 'Greeks only' soup kitchen in Athens.

Sarajevo's fire brigade has been inundated with calls after a massive swarm of flies struck the Bosnian capital.

Demonstrating extraordinary skill and bravery, a helicopter pilot in Norway balances the aircraft on a railing in order to drop off a doctor at the scene of a remote car accident.

In a live interview with ABC News, Amanda Knox reveals how much she is now enjoying life after being "so hated for so long.”

The Italian government ordered an investigation yesterday into slurs on right-wing websites against the country's first black minister – a case that has put Italy's racial problems back in the spotlight.

François Hollande's presidency has taken a fresh turn for the worse after a poll showed he would lose to Marine Le Pen tomorrow, as the far-Right leader claimed her National Front party is "the centre of gravity" of French politics.

Turkish Airlines has banned air hostesses from wearing brightly-coloured lipsticks such as red or pink.

The parents of Madeleine McCann have admitted it is "difficult" to allow their eight-year-old twins to enjoy the same freedom as other youngsters after their daughter went missing in Portugal six years ago.