BBC News: Europe

27 March 2012 Last updated at 05:59 ET

Sarkozy plea over shootings video

French President Nicolas Sarkozy urges TV stations not to air video of the Toulouse attacks by gunman Mohamed Merah, as al-Jazeera discusses broadcasting footage.

Turkey's ex-army chief on trial

Turkish ex-military chief Gen Ilker Basbug goes on trial on terrorism charges, the highest-ranking officer to face charges linked to the so-called Ergenekon network.

Strauss-Kahn may face sex charges

The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, faces possible charges in France over an alleged prostitution ring.

German strike disrupts air travel

Hundreds of flights are cancelled at German airports as ground staff strike as part of a wave of industrial action by public sector workers over pay.
Spain's biggest bank is created

Spain's biggest bank in terms of assets is created after CaixaBank bought Banca Civica for 977m euros ($1.3bn, £817m).
North Sea gas leak exclusion zone
Norway jails Kurd cleric Krekar
Dukan diet guru on ethics charge
'Cannibal killer' held in Russia
Pope in Cuba urges open society
SocGen wins UK newspaper damages
UK troops shot by Afghan soldier
Obama in unguarded remark to Medvedev

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Baroness Ashton has condemned the "odious" attack on a Jewish school in France, during a general session with the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee.