FRANKFURT

Tu?çe Albayrak, a young German student of Turkish descent who was fatally beaten while trying to protect two women from being harassed, died after her earring punctured her skull when she fell on the ground, according to a recently revealed autopsy report.

The European Central Bank (ECB) will buy EUR 60B in assets per month from March 2015 until end-September 2016 to stimulate flagging economic growth in Europe, the bank's President Mario Draghi announced on Thursday.

The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged at record lows and said President Mario Draghi will announce further policy measures at a media briefing later.

Sofia Airport served 3.8 million passengers in 2014, which is an increase of 8.9% compared to the previous year.

The most popular destinations were London, Frankfurt and Vienna, as announced by airport officials.

By Lucy Meakin

The yield premium investors demand to hold Italian bonds instead of German bunds rose from the least since May 2010 as investors considered the scale and form of anticipated European Central Bank sovereign-debt purchases.

 Frankfurt can control the flow of cash in the domestic credit system and therefore the state?s liquidity

By Dimitris Kontogiannis

By Jana Randow

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi briefed German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on quantitative-easing plans under which national central banks would buy bonds issued by their own country, Spiegel magazine reported.

By Jeff Black & Nikos Chrysoloras

The European Central Bank is threatening to choke off funding to Greece?s lenders in the hope it won?t actually need to.

By David Goodman

Greece?s bonds climbed on Monday, with three-year yields dropping for a third day, amid easing concern that a victory for the anti-austerity Syriza party in this month?s elections would result in the nation leaving the euro region.

By Alessandro Speciale

The European Central Bank?s public debate over buying government bonds is reaching a climax.