Candidate for the European Commission presidency Jean-Claude Juncker arrives at an European People's Party meeting in Brussels, ahead of an informal dinner of EU leaders yesterday. Photograph: Francois Lenoir / Reuters. Arthur Beesley, Suzanne ...

Candidate for the European Commission presidency Jean-Claude Juncker arrives at an European People's Party meeting in Brussels, ahead of an informal dinner of EU leaders yesterday. Photograph: Francois Lenoir / Reuters. Arthur Beesley, Suzanne ...

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek. The streaming music company said its systems had been compromised, but only one user's data had been accessed. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images). Ciara O'Brien. Topics: Business · Technology · Consumer Technology · Oskar ...

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (right) and his son Gamal look on from the defendants' cage inside the courtroom during a sentencing session in Cairo yesterday. Photograph: Ahmed Almasry/EPA. Michael Jansen. Topics: News · World · Middle ...

People who use e-cigarettes to help them quit smoking are 60 per cent more likely to end the habit than those who try to stop smoking with the help of nicotine patches, or gum, or just using willpower, according to research published today. The efforts of more ...

Chinese tourists walk past soldiers guarding with weapons at Ratchaprasong intersections in Bangkok today. Photograph: EPA. Topics: News · World · Asia-Pacific · General Prayuth · Yingluck Shinawatra · Thai Army · Asia · Bangkok · Thailand; More Topics.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has admitted that it was “a mistake” to choose Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA. Topics: Sport · Soccer · International · Sepp Blatter; More Topics. Fri, May 16, 2014, 09:46. First published: Fri, May 16, ...

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has admitted that it was “a mistake” to choose Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA. Topics: Sport · Soccer · International · Sepp Blatter; More Topics. Fri, May 16, 2014, 09:46. First published: Fri, May 16, ...

A new video released today by the Boko Haram group purports to show kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls wearing Hijabs and praying. A screen grab of the video purporting to show some of the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants. Topics ...

As West Ham prepared to take the field against Manchester City, Sky Sports invited Sam Allardyce to share the message he had used to inspire the West Ham players. “It's about setting our stall out,” Allardyce began, and you knew that West Ham were ...

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is charged with murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day in 2013. Photograph: Themba Hadebe Pool/EPA. Topics: News · World · Africa · Barry Roux · Judge Thokozile Masipa · Oscar Pistorius · Reeva ...

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is charged with murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day in 2013. Photograph: Themba Hadebe Pool/EPA. Topics: News · World · Africa · Barry Roux · Judge Thokozile Masipa · Oscar Pistorius · Reeva ...

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius watches forensic expert Tom 'Wollie' Wolmarans giving evidence during his testimony at his murder trial at the high court in Pretoria today. Photograph: Themba Hadebe/EPA. Topics: News · World · Africa · Judge Thokozile ...

Social worker and probation officer Yvette van Schalkwyk gave evidence today that she had seen an emotionally devastated Pistorius when she visited him in custody the day after his girlfriend's death. Photograph: Gianluigi Guercia/Pool/Reuters. Topics ...

Gennaro de Tommaso, the leader of SSC Napoli 'Curva A' supporters, wears a shirt reading 'Speziale Libero' as he sits on the railing prior the Italy Cup final. Photograph: EPA. Paddy Agnew. Topics: News · World · Europe · Daniele De Santis · Matteo Renzi ...

Afghan villagers gather at the site of a landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan province yesterday. Photograph: Reuters. Clifford Coonan. Topics: News · World · Asia-Pacific; More Topics. Sat, May 3, 2014, 01:00. First published: Sat, May 3, 2014, 01:00.

North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness: said Sinn Féin support for policing would continue if the situation around Mr Adams's detention was resolved in a satisfactory manner. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill. Dan Keenan, Gerry Moriarty. Topics: News ...

Women at a protest outside Nigeria's parliament in Abuja calling on security forces to search harder for the schoolgirls abducted two weeks ago. Photograph: Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde. Topics: News · World · Africa · Abubakar Shekau · David Mark · Jonathan ...

Armed men in the occupied Office of the Public Prosecutor in Lugansk, eastern Ukraine, today. Photograph: Zurab Kurtsikidze/EPA. Topics: News · World · Europe · Antonio Spilimbergo · Daniel Baer · Tim Guldimann · Viktor Yanukovich · European Union · Imf ...

Twitter's stock fell more than 10 per cent after hours to $38.05, below its post-initial public offering low of $38.80 on November 25th last. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters. Topics: Business · Technology · Brian Wieser · Dick Costolo · Academy Awards ...