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The organizers of the World Swimming Championships that takes place in Barcelona showed on Thursday support to the families of the victims and the society of Galicia, in northwestern Spain, where a train accident killed 80 people and left more than 140 injured.
GlaxoSmithKline has appointed one of its top European executives as the new head of operations in China, amid a corruption scandal there that has rocked Britain's biggest drugmaker.
Paris police have seized 60 tonnes of miniature Eiffel Towers that black-market vendors were hoping to sell to tourists.
Russia could not extradite fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden under any circumstances, head of the Presidential Human Rights Council said Thursday.
Spain's Prime minister Mariano Rajoy said he would declare three days of official mourning after a train derailed in the northwestern region of Galicia, killing at least 78 people.
At least one person was dead and six others were reported missing after a fireworks factory blew up near the city of Pescara in central Italy on Thursday.
Fugitive US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden's hopes of leaving Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport for the first time in a month were dashed when he failed to secure permission from Russia to leave.
At least 77 people have been killed after a train derailed in the northern Spanish region of Galicia on Wednesday evening, said a spokeswoman for Galicia's Supreme Court.
Royal officials say Britain's new prince has been named George Alexander Louis.
Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has no immediate plans to leave Russia, a lawyer assisting him in his request for temporary asylum said.
US leaker Edward Snowden has been granted a document that allows him to leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport and enter Russia, said Russian media.
More than 10 percent of Dutch 15 to 18-year-olds have been bullied on the internet, figures of the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) showed on Wednesday.