Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he has met the Russian agents recently deported from the US – and claimed they were living “tough lives” and had been “betrayed”. Read the full story

Anna Chapman, one of the Russian spies deported from the United States, has been deprived of her British citizenship, the BBC understands. Read the full story

A new financial study suggests that the UK’s public sector debt is more than a trillion pounds higher than official government figures. Read the full story

Immigration controls for people from Pakistan who wish to settle in the UK have failed to protect British borders, an independent report has said. Read the full story

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Iran is “moving closer” to having the potential to create nuclear weapons. It is one of the first times Moscow has publicly recognised that Iran might be moving towards a nuclear weapon. Read the full story

New photographs have emerged showing Fidel Castro greeting workers in a rare public appearance. The images of a grey-bearded Castro, 83, smiling and wearing a white tracksuit, offer a rare glimpse of the reclusive former Cuban leader. Read the full story

More than a million people have taken to the streets in Barcelona to protest a court ruling against Catalonia’s statute of autonomy, which forbade the region to call itself a nation. Read the full story

A French court has convicted Panama’s former military ruler Manuel Noriega on charges of laundering drug money, sentencing him to seven years in jail. Read the full story

Prosecutors have launched an investigation into claims of illegal campaign funding for French President Nicolas Sarkozy.The move follows allegations by a former accountant for France’s richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt. Read the full story

The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war will reportedly grill former British Prime Minister Tony Blair again amid releasing of secret memos on the legality of the invasion. Read the full story

French public debt has soared to 80.3 percent of its gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2010, invoking the specter of a Greek-style financial breakdown. Read the full story

A spokesman for the federal public prosecutor told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday that Poland had arrested an intelligence officer involved in the assassination of senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. Read the full story

Already battling a euro zone debt crisis, sinking poll ratings and policy scraps with an increasingly awkward coalition partner, Merkel must now quickly find a successful candidate for president, whose role is largely ceremonial. Read the full story

President Nicolas Sarkozy will attempt on Monday to convince some 40 African government leaders gathered at a summit in Nice that France has cleaned up its relationship with the African continent, after years of dodgy dealings with its ex-colonies. Read the full story

A network of national funds should be introduced so the cost of bank failures are not met by the taxpayer, the EU internal market commissioner has said. Read the full story

Russia has been accused of blocking support for its many victims of sex trafficking by closing foreign help-centres. This is despite calls for the country to ratify an EU convention on the problem. Read the full story

THE Duchess of York is shamelessly plotting to sell access to her trade envoy ex-hubby Prince Andrew for £500,000. Greedy Sarah Ferguson, 50, was filmed on Tuesday night taking a $40,000 (£27,000) cash down-payment from an undercover News of the World reporter. Read the full story

Lord Triesman’s World Cup bribery allegations have been given credence by Russia’s leading football analyst, who claims his country is unfit to host the tournament. Read the full story

An Iranian agent convicted of the assassination of an exiled prime minister has been released from prison in France and will be allowed to return home. Read the full story

Liam Byrne, the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, last week wrote a letter for his successor – the Liberal Democrat David Laws – stating: “I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left.” Read the full story

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has told the BBC he will not let Russia’s state gas monopoly Gazprom take control of his country’s gas pipeline network. Read the full story

Gordon Brown could resign as Britain’s prime minister Tuesday night, British news media were reporting Tuesday as the United Kingdom waited to hear whether they will soon have a new conservative leader residing in 10 Downing Street. Read the full story

Nick Clegg called for a period of calm reflection today as Britain woke up to the uncertainties of the first hung Parliament in 36 years and Labour signalled its willingness to cling to power. Read the full story

Protestors tried to storm Greece’s parliament and hurled paving stones at police, who responded with tear gas Wednesday as tens of thousands of outraged Greeks took to the streets to protest harsh new spending cuts aimed at saving their country from bankruptcy. Read the full story

Israel is yet to replace a diplomat expelled after forged British passports were used in the killing of a Hamas leader, it has emerged. Read the full story

Media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders has named the leaders of China, Russia and Rwanda as some of the world’s worst “predators of freedom”. Read the full story