RUSSIA: Yeltsin, A Man of Many Images

One enduring image says much about Boris Yeltsin's legacy to Russia - that picture of him on top of a tank, arms up in defiance, leading popular resistance against the putsch organised by the old Soviet military.

FRANCE: Record Vote Sets Up Critical Fight

Right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Ségolène Royal will face one another in the final round of French presidential elections May 6 following the first round of voting Sunday.

TRADE-AFRICA: Green Investment to Get Boost from New EU Fund

After years of promising a way to help Africa tackle climate change, the European Union has joined with the World Bank to attract foreign direct investment to the continent and help save the planet at the same time.

POLAND: Socialist Model City Fights for a Future

From communist showcase to bastion of anti-communism, the Stalin-era model city of Nowa Huta is now being stigmatised by Poles who depict it as Krakow's criminal hub and a place without a future.

MEDIA: Grenade Attack Shocks Serbia

For five minutes from noon Monday, traffic stood still at mot places in all 165 municipalities of Serbia, in protest against a hand grenade attack against leading investigative journalist Dejan Anastasijevic.

RIGHTS: Landmark Ruling in Srebrenica Killings

The sentencing of four men to a total of 58 years in prison for the massacre of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 comes as a landmark ruling, even if it does not satisfy all.

BALKANS: Send Me A Dalekoumnozitelj, I Am Croat

Forget the past, they say, because the language it left in the Balkans is too mixed up with Serbs and Bosniaks. Croat linguists are now producing a language of their own. If you want to send them a fax about this, you'd have to call it a dalekoumnozitelj.

PORTUGAL: Extreme Right to Host Anti-Immigrant Conference

The miniscule but active extreme right groups in Portugal, which in the last few days have gained some notoriety in the press despite their small size, have invited like-minded organisations from other European countries to a "continent-wide" meeting of leaders opposed to immigration.

HUNGARY: Russian Energy Troubles West

Western powers are concerned that Hungary's relations with Russia, and especially the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom, are becoming too warm at a time when Europe seeks to reduce dependence from Russian natural gas.

ENVIRONMENT-ROMANIA: That Lethal Name, Copsa

In Copsa Mica the cemetery, a heavy metal factory and a complex of apartment buildings for the factory workers are all close together. To the residents the message seems to be that they are disposable.

CZECH REPUBLIC: Roma Face Another Official Attack

Can non-Roma get state subsidies? "For this they would have to get sunburnt, make a chaos in their families, put up fires on town squares and only then some politicians would say - they are really miserable people," Deputy Prime Minister Jiri Cunek was quoted as saying.

UKRAINE: Orange Camp Seeks to Regain Power

Ukraine is in deep political crisis as its President disbands Parliament, while the legislative branch refuses to comply and warns of a coup. The question now is whether the standoff will be solved legally or on the streets.

DEVELOPMENT: Major Donors Cut Assistance

Official development assistance from the world's major donors fell 5.1 percent in 2006 compared to 2005, the OECD said Tuesday.

RELIGION-SPAIN: Archbishop Deals Blow to ‘Priests of the Poor’

"I wouldn't be able to stand it if they close the parish. They have given me everything," said Maite Molina, 48, referring to a decision by the archbishop of the Spanish capital to punish the priests in a parish that reaches out to the poor, immigrants, drug addicts and other marginalised sectors.

NORTHERN IRELAND: Opponents Sketch a Blueprint for Peace

The photographers clicked madly away when Ian Paisley, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland sat down at the same end of the table as Gerry Adams, leader of the Sinn Fein party in a new power sharing agreement.

HUNGARY: NATO Radar Runs Into Opposition

Hungary's plans to host a NATO radar are being met with stiff resistance by locals who cite health and environmental fears. But their municipal representatives are seemingly yielding to government pressure.

RUSSIA: Foreign Vendors Face the Boot

Foreigners engaged in retail trade and food product markets face a ban on doing business from Sunday.

PORTUGAL: Salazar ‘Greatest Portuguese Ever’, TV Viewers Say

News media and academic circles in Portugal are vying with each other to explain why the public chose former dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (1932-1968) in a poll on state television channel RTP as "The Greatest Portuguese Who Ever Lived."

HEALTH: Living in Portugal, Giving Birth in Spain

Drastic public health budget cuts in Portugal have led to the closure of emergency and maternity services and prompted protests against the government of socialist Prime Minister José Sócrates.

ITALY: Not Too Young to Know Their Rights

Minors landing on Italian coasts will be taught their rights under a new law.

BALKANS: Serbs in New Fear of Wahhabis

The detention of seven young "Wahhabis" in the southern Serb region Sanjak has set off new fear of the spread of Islamists in the region.