Twenty-five of the EU's 27 member states agreed to join a fiscal treaty on Monday to enforce budget discipline, with the Czech Republic and the UK refusing to sign up.
A Norwegian court on Monday convicted two men of planning to attack Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten after it printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
After emergency crews worked through the night at the wreck of the stricken cruise ship, local coastguard chief Marco Brusco said on Tuesday there was just a "glimmer of hope" that more survivors could be found.