France’s far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen told a Sunday paper that she expects her party to get enough votes in the May 22 to 25 European elections to form a bloc with other Eurosceptics that can stop the EU’s progress.

They played arch-rivals in political satire 'The Thick Of It', but Rebecca Front and Peter Capaldi shared the glory at the British Comedy Awards.

Russian investigators have filed charges against a left-wing activist, making him the most prominent opposition figure to face prison under an increasingly severe Kremlin crackdown against the anti-Putin protest movement.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen delivered a further blow to President Nicolas Sarkozy’s re-election hopes by refusing to endorse him and telling her 6m supporters to make their own choice at Sunday’s ballot.

KITTY KIERNAN, now that she’s back on song, can land the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Brownstown Stakes for fillies at Fairyhouse tonight.

President Jacques Chirac has called for a collective fight against racism in response to France’s worst unrest in almost 40 years, saying discrimination poisons society.

INCUMBENT President Paul Kagame told the world yesterday that genocide-scarred Rwanda is “on the right path”, after he scored an overwhelming election win seen as confirming support for his efforts to heal the African nation’s wounds.q

The Kurdish rebel group PKK and Peru’s Shining Path were among 18 people and groups added to the EU’s terrorist list, which was made public today.