EU leaders meet again after all-night talks in Brussels, amid signs that a deal on the 2014-2020 budget may be within reach.

The BNP and other far-right parties in Europe could lose their funding from Europe after a move from socialist, liberal and green MEPs.

Uefa has reduced the cheapest tickets available for this year's Champions League final at Wembley to £68.

French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen writes down the value of its assets by 4.1bn euros to reflect the worsening state of Europe's car market.

The French economy will avoid recession this year, according to the country's central bank.

Bolshoi star dancer gives his version of events

The former boss of failed Icelandic retail group Baugur, Jon Asgeir Johannesson, has been found guilty of tax evasion.

French police detain a woman who defaced an iconic Delacroix painting, Liberty Leading The People, at a regional branch of the Louvre Museum.

The Russian woman revered as the first female ace

BBC political correspondent Iain Watson explains how European Union leaders know exactly which microphone to find when they arrive on the red carpet at summits.

The day the world's most famous racehorse was stolen

Cross-border co-operation on terrorism and crime will be compromised unless the UK updates the technology it uses for DNA profiling, experts warn.

Candidates in the Russian space agency's cosmonaut training competition have been given their first real endurance test at Russia's specialist training centre.

A principal dancer at Russia's Bolshoi ballet has accused the company's management of conducting a campaign to discredit him.

The meat in some beef lasagne products recalled by Findus earlier this week was 100% horsemeat, the UK Food Standards Agency says.

Comments by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi on the euro's recent strength prompt it to fall more than a cent against the dollar.

European Union leaders are due to begin a two-day summit in Brussels to try to strike a deal on the next seven years of EU spending.

The British prime minister, at an EU summit, says he will not accept a new seven-year budget deal unless further cuts are made.

The European Central Bank clears a deal to liquidate former Anglo Irish Bank in a "historic step" towards economic recovery.

A German job centre apologises after offering work as a hostess in a brothel to a teenage girl, according to a local newspaper.