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  Merkel condemns US over EU insult   Germany's Angela Merkel has said a US official's apparent insult of the EU's efforts to mediate in the Ukraine crisis is 'totally unacceptab...

Spanish princess quizzed in court Map of Mallorca Spain  Spain's Princess Cristina, 48, is being questioned in court in connection with a corruption scandal involving her husband's business dealings

Rock strike kills two on Alps train   Officials say an enormous boulder has smashed into the Train of the Pines, derailing it and killing two people

Giraffe killed despite campaign Map of Copenhagen Denmark

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	Feb.1	Madrid		Spain mourns Aragones
		Italy		Diver killed while working on Costa Concordia wreckage
	Feb.2	London		Virus shuts top London restaurant
		Lithuania		Beaten protest leader leaves Ukraine
		Greece
		Germany		Porsche faces 1.8bn euros lawsuit
	Feb.3	European Union
		Slovenia		Snow and cold cut power lines in Slovenia
	Feb.4	Spain		Spain nets a ton of cocaine in floating backpacks
		London		Gay protests to target Sochi games
		England		UK storms leave thousands without power
	Feb.5	Miami		Beckham to launch Miami MLS team
		Southern France		Cargo ship splits on French coast
	Feb.6	Sicily
		London		Tube strike travel delays continue
		Afghanistan		Taliban claims to have captured military canine
	Feb.7	Berlin
		United Kingdom		Child leukaemia 'not linked to power lines'
	Feb.8	Spain
		Southern France
	Feb.9	Denmark

 Sochi  Matthias Mayer wins skiing's blue riband for Austria   England   Flood-swollen Thames at record levels   Several water gauges along the River Thames have measured record levels as flood waters continue to rise Feb.10  Sochi  Martin Fourcade win's biathlon gold  Sochi  Dutch twins fly into history books   Washington Hollande arrives for US state visit   Madrid Spanish judge issues arrest warrants for former Chinese leaders Feb.11   Washington     White House welcomes French President Francois Hollande Map of White House USA  US President Barack Obama has welcomed French President Francois Hollande to the White House for a day of meetings culminating in a state dinner   Southern Italy US-Italian mafia raids catch 26   Austria More art found in Nazi loot probe   England UK expecting further severe weather Feb.12   Madrid Spain to pass bill banning abortion  Sochi  Dutchman Stefan Groothuis takes 1,000m speed skating title   England UK braces for 'red warning' storm   England   Storm with 106-mph gusts slams flooded Britain Map of Somerset Levels United Kingdom

The latest round of bad weather slammed into west coast with torrential rain. Trucks were toppled, trees were felled  England had its wettest January since records began in 1766. The resulting floods have drenched the southwestern coast, the low-lying Somerset Levels and the Thames Valley west of London

Somerset Levels Timeline (3) England Weather Related Timeline (28) England, 2014 Timeline

  Brussels Belgian MPs due to vote on child euthanasia Feb.13   England Power cuts continue after UK storms   Brussels   Belgian children may be able to choose death

The lower house of the Belgian Parliament adopted a bill that extends the right to euthanasia for minors. The law passed 86 to 44 with 12 abstentions

Brussels, 2014 Timeline

  Denmark   Second Danish zoo may kill a giraffe called Marius   A second Danish zoo has said it may have to put down one of its giraffes, despite a storm of protest after a similar move by Copenhagen Zoo   Rome Italian PM Enrico Letta to resign  Sochi  France's Fourcade wins 2nd biathlon gold Feb.14   Rome Florence mayor Matteo Renzi tipped to be Italy's youngest PM   Tennessee Volkswagen's US workers vote against joining union Feb.15  Sochi  Anna Fenninger takes the women's Super G title  Sochi  Brodka upsets big names in long track 1500 meters   London 2 killed as storms keeping battering Britain   Greece 4.6 magnitude quake hits Greek island   London Fire breaks out at UK National Archives   England Princes William and Harry man UK flood defenses Feb.16  Sochi  Netherlands completes sweep in women's 1500m skating  Sochi  Sweden win men's cross country relay   London Gravity wins best British film Bafta Feb.17  Donbass  Lavillenie shatters Sergey Bubka's pole vault world record   London UK floods continue as more rain hits   Rome   Italian president asks Renzi to form government

Giorgio Napolitano has asked Matteo Renzi, the mayor of Florence, to form a new government. It follows the resignation on Friday of PM Enrico Letta

Matteo Renzi Timeline (7)

Feb.18  Sochi  Pierre Vaultier wins gold in the men's snowboard cross   Austria Iran nuclear talks open in Vienna  Sochi  Slovenia’s Maze takes gold in giant slalom  Northern England  Barcelona teach Manchester City a harsh lesson  Sochi  Dutch skaters clean up again   France Peugeot signs rescue deal with China's Dongfeng Motor Feb.19   European Union     Kiev bloodshed sparks sanctions push   Europe's leaders are to consider urgent sanctions against Ukraine after the worst violence in months of unrest claimed at least 26 lives   Sochi   Russian hockey knocked out of Olympics by Finland   Finland eliminated Russia from the men's hockey tournament with a 3-1 victory, putting an end to the Russians' enormous expectations at home  Sochi  Sweden tops Slovenia, on to hockey semis   London Blair 'advised editor before arrest'   Paris French police quiz tycoon Dassault  Sochi  Czechs beat Slovakia, play U.S. in quarters  London  Champions League: Bayern Munich defeats Arsenal  Sochi  U.S. eliminates Czechs 5-2 Feb.20  Sochi  Chapuis leads French skicross medal sweep   Kiev     Ukraine sanctions imposed amid clashes

The EU has agreed to impose sanctions on Ukrainian officials 'responsible for violence and excessive force' after the bloodiest day of clashes

Euromaidan, 2014 Timeline

  West Germany Suspected Auschwitz guards arrested Feb.21   Sochi     Sweden tops Finland, into ice hockey final  Erik Karlsson scored the go-ahead goal late in the second period and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 25 shots, lifting Sweden over Finland 2-1   Tokyo   Anne Frank books vandalised in Japan  More than 100 copies of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl have been vandalised in public libraries in Japan's capital Tokyo, officials say   Rome Italy's PM-in-waiting names cabinet   Spain Ship loses more than 500 containers in heavy seas Feb.22   Rome New Italian government sworn in  Sochi  Dutch wrap speed skating with 23 medals  Sochi  Finland routs U.S. 5-0 for hockey bronze   New England Last of Trapp Family Singers dies Feb.23  Sochi  Sweden's Backstrom fails drug test before game   Kiev     Ukraine to seek European integration   Ukraine's new interim President Oleksandr Turchynov has said the country will focus on closer integration with the EU   Estonia   Estonian prime minister is resigning  57-year-old Andrus Ansip says he will step down next week after nearly nine years in office Feb.26  Ruhr  Real Madrid in record Champions League win Feb.27   Italy     Concordia captain returns to ship   The Italian captain of the Costa Concordia ship, Francesco Schettino, has returned to the wreck for the first time as part of his manslaughter...   Scotland   Northern Lights illuminate the UK   The Aurora Borealis - better known as the Northern Lights - has been giving rare and spectacular displays over parts of the UK Feb.28   England     Guantanamo Briton faces Syria charge   Moazzam Begg and a 44-year-old woman have been charged with terror offences related to Syria, West Midlands Police have said

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