Walkout protest Lisbon
Francisco Seco/AP Commuters walk along Praça do Comércio during a 24-hour subway workers strike in Lisbon, Portugal on Thursday. Read more
View ArticleBlockupy rage at capitalism
Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters German riot police scuffle with protestors in front of the European Central Bank head quarters during an anti-capitalism “Blockupy” demonstration in Frankfurt on Friday Read more
View ArticleSleeping protester Taksim Square
Stoyan Nenov/Reuters A protester sleeps at a bus stop sprayed with graffiti at Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday. Pockets of protesters clashed with Turkish riot police overnight and a union...
View ArticleTaksim Square
Thanassis Stavrakis/AP People take photographs while others read anti-government graffiti on the ground in front of the statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, at Taksim Square in...
View ArticleOccupy the banks
Albert Gea/Reuters Activists of the PAH mortgage victims platform occupy a branch of BBVA bank in Sabadell, near Barcelona, to demand the renegotiation of the mortgages of 232 families, on Friday. Read...
View ArticleVoting session in the European parliament
Vincent Kessler/Reuters Members of the European parliament take part in a voting session in Strasbourg on Thursday.
View ArticleGreece’s police join protest
John Kolesidis /Reuters Municipal policemen on their motorcycles join a protest by local government workers in Athens against the public sector reforms and layoffs the Greek government has promised its...
View ArticleMark Carney in Nottingham
Nigel Roddis/Getty Images Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, delivers his address to business leaders on Wednesday in Nottingham, England. Mr Carney’s first policy speech as Bank of England...
View ArticleShops put on a new front
Cathal McNaughton/Reuters A man walks past an empty shop covered with artwork in the village of Bushmills on the Causeway Coast in Northern Ireland. One of the homes of Irish whiskey, Bushmills has...
View ArticleWorker’s red mist in Rome
Filippo Monteforte/AFP Firemen take part in a demonstration of Italian trade unions Cobas and Usb against austerity measures and European politics. Thousands of people protested against economic...
View ArticleDemo in Lyon
Protesters demonstrate against a bill to reform the country’s labour laws based on an agreement reached between employers and unions, on April 9 2013 in Lyon. The bill is designed to give more...
View ArticleZetsche revises results
Rocky road: Dieter Zetsche, Daimler CEO, attends the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Berlin April 10, 2013. The German premium automaker is likely to cut its profit expectations for the year,...
View ArticleChinese investor
An investor naps in front of screens showing stock information at a brokerage house in Qingdao, Shandong province on April 12 2013. China shares extended a weekly losing streak to three with a feeble...
View ArticleBeijing lunch
A group of Chinese workers have lunch by a road in Beijing on April 16 2013. Growth in China slowed to 7.7 per cent in the first quarter, data showed on April 15, below forecasts and fuelling fears...
View ArticleGreek pensioners protest
Pensioners shout slogans and hold a flag depicting Che Guevara during an anti-austerity demonstration in central Athens on Friday.
View ArticleDemonstration against Kenya lawmakers salary demands
A protestor wearing a mask with the colours of the Kenyan flag participates in a demonstration against lawmakers’ salary demands outside the parliament buildings in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday....
View ArticleLunchtime in Paris
People take their break in the business district of La Défense, Paris, on Wednesday. France’s economy has fallen back into recession, spelling trouble for the region. Insee, the national statistics...
View ArticleZebra crossing
A pedestrian crosses a road in Tokyo, Japan. The economy of Japan expanded last quarter, the most in a year, as consumer spending and export gains outweighed the weakest business investment since the...
View ArticleEU parliament discusses tax evasion
Members of the parliament on Tuesday vote during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. EU leaders must go beyond promises when they tackle the issue of tax evasion at a...
View ArticleMerkel greets Rutte
German Chancellor Angela Merkel shares a kiss from Netherlands’ Prime Minister Mark Rutte before their bilateral talks in the western German town of Kleve on Thursday.
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