SEVERAL have been injured in a shooting in the Swedish town of Kristianstad, police had said.A

STOCKHOLM( Reuters)-Sweden plans to give police greater powers to access data from mobile phones as it bids to rein in a surge in gang-related violence plaguing its major cities, the government said on Wednesday. There have been 25 deaths and 180 shooting incidents already this year, according to police figures, with crime at the top of the agenda ahead of a general election next year. The government said it wanted to give police greater powers to access mobile communications data, including con

The European Trade Union Confederation( ETUC) discovered that 28 percent of people living in the bloc-equating to 35 million people-do not earn enough for an annual break.... The figure rises to 60 percent for workers below the poverty line, it said. Research also showed stark regional variations, with 89 percent of workers at risk of poverty in Greece unable to afford a break.It was marginally lower for Romania( 87 percent), Croatia( 85 percent), Cyprus( 79 percent) and Slovakia( 76 percent),