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In the supercharged air of Shibuya, Tokyo's fiercely hip teen quarter, music videos by Japanese pop stars topping the charts throughout Asia boom from towering, outdoor liquid-crystal display screens.

Nowhere is the prospect of a new future playing out more than in Lithuania where nearly 500 German troops have been deployed

Wolfsburg’s citizens will not be at forefront of those questioning emissions scandal

The campaign of Hofer — from the nationalist, right wing Freedom Party — defied the rules of electoral civility, turning the presidential race into the bitterest in decades

Investors sceptical of fiscal austerity in struggling Greece, Spain and Portugal

As crumbling monuments are restored, debate rages over commercialisation of history

The number of people risking life and limb to seek sanctuary rose to more than 51 million this year

China has, according to Japanese reconnaissance data, completed at least one new drilling platform in the East China Sea and may already be tapping into natural gas and oil fields, escalating a dispute with Japan over the rights to billions of dollars worth of underwater energy reserves.

With voice recognition technology allowing 700 verbal responses and an almost infinite number of facial expressions from joy to despair, surprise to rage, Saya may not be biological — but she is nobody’s fool.