BBC News: Europe

26 May 2012 Last updated at 19:44 ET

Spain's Bankia vows transparency

The head of Spain's fourth-largest bank, Bankia, promises greater transparency after announcing 3bn-euro losses and asking for a state bailout.

A teenager is arrested after two people are killed and several others wounded in an apparently random shooting in southern Finland.

The Pope's butler has been charged over the suspected leaking of confidential documents, as it steps up an inquiry into media leaks.

Wanted Nazi dies in Germany at 90

Dutch-born Nazi war criminal Klaas Carel Faber, wanted by the Netherlands after escaping from jail there in 1952, dies in Germany, aged 90.
IMF boss ups pressure on Greece

IMF head Christine Lagarde urges Greeks to pay taxes, saying she worried more about sub-Saharan Africa than the crisis-hit European nation.
Medvedev named ruling party chief
Humperdinck awaits Euro results
UK plans for EU immigration rise
Drama of Breivik arrest described
Man shoots son at Austria school
Opinion poll suggests yes vote
Kosovo organ suspect 'held in Israel'

In depth look at Greece and contagion threat

EU challenge to Argentina at WTO

The EU files a suit against Argentina's import restrictions at the WTO in the latest stage of a trade row between the two.
Spanish bank's shares suspended

Blatter wants penalty alternative

Fifa president Sepp Blatter asks Franz Beckenbauer to come up with an alternative to the "tragedy" of penalty shoot-outs.
Guardiola waiting for right offer
French Open 'biggest Grand Slam'

Liberal leader slams euro crisis handling Watch

Europe is facing a political crisis of "unseen magnitude" because of EU leaders' failure to get to grips with the economic situation in the eurozone, the leader of the parliament's liberal group has said.

My friend the assassin

The moment the hated Nazi Heydrich met his downfall
Eurovision and activism

Song contest turns the spotlight on Azerbaijan
Damp squib

Ireland's debate on ratifying the EU Fiscal Treaty fails to ignite
Summit diplomacy

Israeli climber's Everest rescue breaks ice with Turkey
Fall of Rome

Can Europe learn from Britain's experience in 410 AD?
Strictly hush-hush

Why the UK's contingency plan for a Greek euro exit is kept quiet
60 years, 60 pictures

The Queen's reign from duty to family life