CNN Site Map for Section Europe (Galleries) for August - 2012
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- 2012-08-31Firefighters try to extinguish wildfires in Ojen, near the town of Malaga, on August 31, 2012. More than 250 firefighters on the ground, backed by eight planes and nine helicopters in the air, battled the blaze after hot, dry winds sent it racing through
- 2012-08-29Disabled marathon runner Claire Lomas, center, lights the Olympic cauldron for the Paralympic Games in Trafalgar Square on August 24, 2012. The London 2012 Paralympic Games open on August 29 for 12 days.
- 2012-08-27Police officers direct a participant at the Notting Hill Carnival in London on Monday, August 27. The annual two-day festival is billed as the largest of its kind in Europe and is expected to attract around 1 million revelers. It has taken place every Au
- 2012-08-24A woman from the Roma community stands at the entrance of a shack on Thursday, August 23, in a camp in Evry, outside Paris. With criticism of their treatment of the Roma mounting, French ministers met for emergency talks on the handling of an estimated 15
- 2012-08-17Ian Brady in police custody prior to his court appearance for the murder of three children in 1965. Brady and his partner Myra Hindley became known as the "Moors Murderers" after burying their young victims on Saddleworth Moor, Greater Mancheste
- 2012-08-14The battle cruiser HMS Hood during a dockyard refit. She served in World War II before she was sunk by the Bismarck on May 24, 1941. The shipwreck was located in 2001 -- the 60th anniversary of the battle between the Hood and Bismarck.
- 2012-08-12For Ian Thorpe, watching the reaction from Bert Le Clos after his son beat Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian ever, was "one of those moments that you can't help but love." Thorpe says: "This big, burly South African man -- wh
- 2012-08-10During the day, the Olympic Park in London is heaving with people going to and from events and seeing the sights. But at night, it's a different story. One day towards the end of the Olympics fortnight, CNN's Linnie Rawlinson stayed to see what
- 2012-08-10The 21st-century sharpness of London's Olympic venues stands in stark contrast to these photographs: 20th-century images of the East End neighborhoods that stand in the shadow of the Games. Here, two workers survey the reconstruction of Poplar in Ap
- 2012-08-10London's Olympic Park has transformed Stratford in east London. The area was once a post-industrial wasteland, blighted by pollution. Today it is a bright, colorful park.
- 2012-08-09Justin Gatlin, U.S. sprinter: "Communication with my son...To hear him talk to me and tell me he loves me before I go out and compete, that gives me the mojo to go out there and do the best I can do."
- 2012-08-08Two policemen at the Olympic Park celebrate Usain Bolt's victory in the 100 metres with his signature 'Bolt arms' salute.
- 2012-08-03East London is one of the best places to see street art in the world, and If there's one artist who sums up East London street art right now, it is Stik, according to Richard Howard-Griffin.
- 2012-08-02Leytonstone tube station in East London is decorated with mosaic murals featuring scenes from the life of director Alfred Hitchcock, who was born nearby, and his movies.
- 2012-08-02The remains of more than six million people are buried in a vast network of tunnels below Paris, France. People who call themselves 'cataphiles' visit the catacombs illegally and occasionally hold underground parties.
- 2012-08-01Director Alfred Hitchcock is one of East London's most famous exports -- the Hollywood legend was born and brought up in Leytonstone. Sadly, little evidence of his life there remains.
