Tag: European

Denmark's Thomas Bjorn clinched his second title in as many weeks after shooting a superb nine-under-par final round of 62 to win the European...

Germany became the new European hockey champions after beating the Netherlands by 4-2 in the final of the Euro Hockey Nations Championship here in...

The Turkish Airlines has been adjudged the winner of ‘Best Airline – Europe’ award and also named as the winner of the categories ‘Best...

German world champion Sebastian Vettel will start from pole position in Sunday’s Formula One European Grand Prix after the Red Bull driver was fastest...

The National Selection Committee of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) named 18-man squad for Europe trip on Tuesday after conducting one day trials here...

Britain’s Mohammed “Mo” Farah smashed the European record in winning the 10,000m at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Friday with a time...

The Tanvir Dar Hockey Academy began its European tour with an impressive win. Pakistan’s premier hockey academy, who mourned the death of their mentor Munir...

University of Central Punjab hosted its first ever European Band performance at its campus. A group of Norwegian, Norwegian-Indian and Pakistani musicians presented breath-taking...

04 won the German Cup for the fifth time on Saturday, crushing second division Duisburg 5-0 to book a Europa League spot as...

BERLIN - Germany's Marcel Nguyen claimed gold Sunday on the men's parallel bars at the European gymnastics championships with Epke Zonderland of the Netherlands taking silver and Greece's Vasileios Tsolakidis bronze.
Nguyen, 23, won his first major individual title and Germany's second gold of these championships with a winning tally of 15,525 pts, while Zonderland finished with 15,300 pts and Tsolakidis earned third place with 15,075 pts. The new champion was returning from

LAHORE - Samsung Electronics, a global leader in digital media and digital technologies, recently received strong praise from Europe's leading Audio Visual Magazines for their Full HD 3D Smart TVs.
Top electronics and Audio Visual magazines in the UK like T3, What Hi Fi Vision & Sound and CNET UK all gave Samsung's Full HD 3D Smart TV 8000 series ranked the product highly in the areas of picture quality, design, 3D glasses, rear mounted downward firing stereo speakers, online

LAHORE - Although the European Union is the largest trading partner of India, New Delhi is not happy with the EU's ability to coordinate on policy and conduct effective diplomacy, besides being 'intrusive and preachy' classified US embassy cables shows, reported The Hindu newspaper on Sunday.
The cables, sent between 2004 and 2008 (22519, 40254, 82606, 130916, 171651: all confidential) showed reservations among policymakers at the level of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)

BRUSSELS - Portugal announced new spending cuts, on Friday, to try and restore confidence in its finances ahead of a euro zone summit that is likely to back a plan to boost competitiveness but defer decisions on a stronger rescue fund. A German government source said there were positive signals that Greece and Ireland, which received EU/IMF bailouts last year, might also announce new moves at the summit, opening the way for EU paymaster Germany to offer them more help.
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BERLIN - The French, German and Italian economies expanded less than expected in the fourth quarter, data showed on Tuesday, suggesting the euro zone may not have accelerated out of a third-quarter slowdown. Economists have forecast the euro zone economy as a whole grew by 0.4 percent in the final three months of 2010, after 0.3 percent in the third quarter and 1.0 percent in the second. But that prediction now faces a clear downside risk.
The French, German and Italian economies

PARIS - Half a season on from a World Cup where their respective teams largely failed to impress, England, Germany, Italy and France will use midweek friendlies to chart a course for happier times which they hope can materialise at Euro 2012. England boss Fabio Capello, and German, Italian and French counterparts Joachim Loew, Laurent Blanc and Cesare Prandelli will be out to show that they are building solid foundations for the end of next season.
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GENEVA - European football clubs on Tuesday voiced strong opposition to talk of a winter World Cup and criticised the way world governing body FIFA has been handling changes in football.
"The time for monopolies is over. Football needs democracy and transparency," said European Club Association chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. "ECA members agree that all clubs must be meaningfully involved in all decisions affecting club football. Now is the time for change," Rummenigge, who is

BERNE - French couple Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat were in pole position to win their first major title here at the figure skating European Championships on Wednesday heading the dance standings after the short programme.
The duo, favourites for the title after winning six of the seven competitions they have competed in, danced to music from Russian literary classic and later film Dr Zhivago to record a total of 66.91 points - they admitted that it was a theme that was