Luxembourg News

Luxembourg's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Jean Asselborn on Monday urged Thailand to materialise the Asean-EU free trade agreement.

Miss & Mister World - Miss and Mister Luxembourg finalists after a fun and also hard week in Djerba, returned to Luxembourg on Saturday, as did Station.lu. Here is the final report Photo gallery updated at bottom of article So this the last report of the Djerba trip for Miss and Mister Luxembourg as the trip drew to a close on Saturday with the return to Luxembourg.

Music: 7th national concert of the Saint Pie X union playing classical music at the Philharmonie, place de l'Europe, Kirchberg on Friday evening at 8pm Shinedown, rock band concert at den Atelier, Hollerich, on Friday at 8pm Scout Niblett, English singer songwriter concert, at Exit07, Hollerich on Friday at 8pm.

Early this morning, the police were called about a fight in an apartment in Hollerich when they arrived the man inside the flat threatened the officers with a knife.

On Thursday, Haus vun der Natur, an institution that promotes nature discovery for schoolchildren, presented their program for the 2009/2010 school year.

On Wednesday, a crowd gathered in Utopolis to watch the first screening of New Moon, the much awaited sequel to Twilight.

Before their concert in den Atelier, last Friday, Editors took time to chat to Station.lu and 352 magazine The Birmingham formed group, Editors, took time to answer a few questions for Station.lu ahead of their sold-out concert last Friday den Atelier.

The decision has finally been taken, Luxembourg's ING marathon will take place in 2010.The starting and finishing lines are at Luxexpo in Kirchberg.

Combination photo shows undated portraits of politicians often named by European media as potential candidates to become European Union President.

France, Germany and bookmakers are backing Belgian prime minister Herman van Rompuy to emerge as the future European Council President, but nothing is decided about the EU's new top jobs as a dinner to decide the question appears likely to stretch far into the night.

The panda that was born in the San Diego zoo has finally been named. Over 17,000 animal lovers have voted for the name on the Internet and the choice is a Yun ZI - Son of Clouds. The Internet website had offered the visitors 5 names and the winning one was Yun Zi which means son of the clouds in Chinese.

Miss World - The more time I spend on this trip, the more my misconceptions of a "Miss" or "Mister" competition fade away. To put it mildly, my expected preconception originally was that of a “bimbo world” for both girls and boys who cared only about their looks and not much concern about anyone or anything else. I guess that’s the stereotype trap that is easy to fall in.

The Baltic News Service reported that Prime Minister Andrus Ansip told a news conference in Tallinn: 'I put forward... the name of Toomas Hendrik Ilves as a candidate fit for the position of both president and high representative for foreign policy.

Europe's top political leaders, shrugging off reports that the continent is being viewed by an impatient President Barack Obama as incoherent and ineffectual, are set to choose next week from a deliberately uninspiring list of candidates to lead the 27-nation European Union.

AFP/File The speaker of the German parliament, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, backs Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Fri Nov 13, 1:59 pm ET BERLIN The speaker of the German parliament, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, backs Luxembourg 's Jean-Claude Juncker for European Union president , a press report cited him as saying on Friday.

China's central bank Wednesday hinted a policy change on exchange rates was possible as pressure builds for allowing the renminbi to appreciate.

WIN TICKETS! Twilight night arrives on 18th November in Luxembourg! Station and Utopolis will bring you a thrilling night showing the first Twilight film followed by the premiere of the sequel, New Moon.

Just before their concert in Luxembourg, the popular UK band White Lies took the time to answer a few questions for station.lu and 352 magazine. White Lies are the latest hot young band from London, they are are in their early twenties, have already sold out major UK venues and toured the world with such heavyweights as Coldplay and Kings Of Leon.

On Friday evening, shops will be open late in Luxembourg-city. On Friday 13th of November, the shops of the Grand-Rue will be open to shoppers until 9pm. The event is organised by the businesses of the Grand-Rue so the late night opening only concerns the shop on the main street but it will be a great opportunity for all shoppers to take advantage of the evening and shop for the weekend.