Reuters
| May 3, 2013
This quirky video depicts the ticking time bomb Europe is facing -- not the debt crisis, but how to pay for its growing elderly population.
Channel 4 News
| Apr 30, 2013
Share nice, climbers. Three top European climbers were confronted at 23,000 feet by angry Sherpas on Mount Everest threatening to kill them because they reportedly upset climbing lines fixed by the Sherpas and kicked ice down on one of them. The b...
Associated Press
| Mar 12, 2013
Spring might be just over a week away but you'd never know it traveling through northern Europe just now, if you could travel, that is, and get through traffic snarled by a huge surprise snowstorm. Hundreds of flights have have cancelled and even ...
Russia Today
| Mar 10, 2013
Bavaria is the latest province to be caught up in a wave of European separatism triggered by Scotland and Catalonia. Widely considered Germany's economic powerhouse, a growing number of politicians there insist they would be better off as an indep...
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Mosaic
| Mar 7, 2013
The Free Syrian Army's Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Salim Idris, called on European governments to give the opposition the arms it needs to defeat President Bashar al-Assad. These statements follows pledges from the US and Britain to provide ...
Associated Press
| Mar 5, 2013
Italy's Mount Etna has exploded in a particularly fiery eruption, shooting out plumes of hot lava and ash. The volcano is the tallest active volcano in Europe, and almost constantly in a state of activity, though rarely as spectacular as this.
The Wall Street Journal
| Feb 27, 2013
Here's a guy with a lot of faith. Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is preparing to build a new version of the Titanic that could set sail in late 2016. The ship will look like the original ill-fated vessel, but will be outfitted with the latest...
Euronews
| Feb 25, 2013
Is nothing sacred? The Swedish furniture giant IKEA has been forced to yank its lusted-after meatballs from Czech shelves after food inspectors there discovered the meat morsels were tainted by horse DNA. The batch in question was produced by a si...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 24, 2013
John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has embarked on his first official trip overseas. Kerry left Washington to start a grueling nine-nation, 10-day trip that will take him to Europe and the Middle East, discussing many issues including the conf...
Press TV
| Feb 21, 2013
Iran, evidently feeling confident about future relations with Syria, is working on a $10 billion project natural gas pipeline to its ally, from where it aims to export gas to Europe. Iraq has now given approval for the pipeline from the vast Sout...
— Jul 10, 2012 at 08:21 am
...undermine the rights of Palestinians or Israel’s Arab citizens. For a long time now, the Europeans have not been protesting only matters pertain...
— Feb 12 at 05:00 am
...former French president Nicolas Sarkozy prohibited the wearing of burqas in France in 2010. He also banned the use of religious symbols in schoo...
— Feb 18 at 08:06 pm
...January, on the anniversary of the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act, an Internet activist group called Fight for the Future uploaded a video...
— May 16 at 05:55 am
...lower than a 0.1% growth forecast by the French government. Separate figures showed that the recession across the 17-nation eurozone has continu...
— May 15 at 08:34 am
...a national-security risk.Now officials in Europe say they're concerned with more-commercial matters. The European Union's trade chief wants to l...
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.
Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Black Sea and connected waterways to the southeast. Yet the borders of Europe—a concept dating back to classical antiquity—are somewhat arbitrary, as the primarily physiographic term "continent" can incorporate cultural and political elements.
Europe is the world's second-smallest continent by surface area, covering about 10,180,000 square kilometres or 2% of the Earth's surface and about 6.8% of its land area. Of Europe's approximately 50 states, Russia is by far the largest by both area and population, taking up 40% of the continent, while Vatican City is the smallest. Europe is the third-most populous continent after Asia and Africa, with a population of 733 million or about 11% of the world's population.
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