Unknown perpetrators made off with 80 Christmas trees being stored in an empty department store over the weekend. Police estimate that the trees were worth over €1,000.

A market worth over $500 million to US poultry farmers had been closed for five years following an avian flu outbreak. But now China has lifted the ban in order to fill a pork-shaped gap left by swine fever.

The Muslim headscarf: France's Republican dilemma

Nina Hoss on her new movie, acting in different languages and the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

Outcry as director Roman Polanski faces new rape allegations

A trip to Middle Earth: New Paris exhibition explores Tolkien's magical world

A major fire has broken out at a 500-year-old castle on Japan's southern island of Okinawa. Authorities say much of the World Heritage-listed Shuri Castle has now been reduced to a charred skeleton.

A Guinean filmmaker tells his migration story; animal testing in Germany

‘The Secret of Happiness:’ The Sea?

'Almost British': comedian Paul Taylor takes aim at language, lifestyle and national identity

Content seeks audience: Big studios join the booming streaming market

SOS: Venice is drowning!