Part-time waitress Eroica Mildmay listens in as council chiefs plot with supermarket bosses.

Playing that wins a chorus of approval. Expat Michael Wright reports from rural France.

In Vorarlberg, Austria, the lists of dos and don'ts are endless and pretty much rigidly adhered to , writes Matthew Randall.

Spanish house builders have been left with so much unsold and semi-completed stock that they have resorted to supermarket-type tactics.

LONDON, England - (PRESS RELEASE) - Europeans are being offered an opportunity to try poker in one of the largest free poker competitions in Europe. Everest Poker, Europe's biggest online poker school is organizing 27 events across the continent, and

32Red Casino has announced that one of its players claimed a second large jackpot win from the same slot machine in under a month. The lucky player has taken home a total of £37,864.09 in just 17 days and becomes

Polish opposition leader calls for resignation of Internal Security Agency head. Wife of Belarus human rights activist Valentin Stefanovich called to KGB. Security Service of Ukraine asks assistance of Georgia to compromise investigation commission head - Russian newspaper. Brussels urges

The first officially sanctioned sale of ivory in southern Africa for almost a decade opens on Tuesday.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is to offer a $16.5bn (£10.4bn) loan to Ukraine and has agreed an as yet undisclosed package with Hungary.

A car bomb in the Croatian capital Zagreb has killed Ivo Pukanic, the owner of a leading weekly newspaper, and his colleague.

Russia and Vietnam will sign on Monday a major package of bilateral documents on cooperation, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.

A Russian communist group has attacked the newest Bond girl, Olga Kurylenko, for her "moral and intellectual betrayal" in starring in a film about the "enemy of the Soviet people."

The head of the University of Central Arkansas said Monday "our campus is safe" after a shooting left two students dead and a third person wounded. Police said there was no ongoing threat and that they were questioning two people.

The Kyiv Central Geophysical Observatory at the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency has publicized results of its study into air pollution in the Ukrainian capital.

A Soyuz-TMA-12 space capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American space tourist landed in north-central Kazakhstan at 9.37 a.m. (03:37 GMT) on Friday.

Saltovske tram depot is on strike.

At least 135 people have been killed after an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude hit Balochistan province in south-western Pakistan, officials say.

The U.S. intelligence budget rose more than 9 percent in fiscal 2008 to total $47.5 billion from $43.5 billion the year before, the director of national intelligence said on Tuesday.