Two people are killed in a shooting in the eastern German city of Halle and a suspect is arrested, police says, with broadcasters showing images of an alleged perpetrator dressed in combat garb including a helmet.

British lawmakers ask the government to give guarantees that supplies of toilet paper don't dry up in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday told the European Union that the Brexit ball was in its court and that the bloc should now urgently discuss in detail his proposal for breaking the deadlock ahead of Britain’s scheduled departure on October 31.

Pope Francis yesterday hit out at “offensive words” spoken against the Amazon’s indigenous people, noting that a feather headdress is no more ridiculous than hats worn at the Vatican. “I was pained to hear, right here, a sarcastic comment about a pious man with feathers on his

Portugal’s incumbent Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s Socialists won a general election marked by low turnout on Sunday after presiding over a period of solid economic growth following years of austerity. The Socialist Party (PS) took 36.65 percent of the vote, followed by

Italian coastguards recovered the bodies of 13 women who died after a crowded migrant boat capsized in heavy weather as rescue boats approached it off the coast of Lampedusa, an island south of Sicily, local authorities said yesterday. The coastguard said rescue vessels had

Hundreds of climate activists barricaded themselves into a Paris shopping centre for hours ahead of a planned series of protests around the world by the Extinction Rebellion movement.

Britain hinted yesterday that it could be open to changes to its latest Brexit proposals for Northern Ireland, as European leaders piled pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to revise the plans.

Outsider candidates challenged Tunisia’s political elite yesterday as voters returned to the polls weeks after a presidential election that reshaped the country’s post-Arab Spring political landscape.

Pope Francis opened a synod yesterday to champion the Amazon’s poverty-stricken and isolated indigenous communities by condemning the destructive “interests” he blamed for the fires that devastated the region.

Stressing the necessity to stop violent extremism with long-term integrated plan, speakers at a conference in Belgium say that the threat is no longer limited in South Asia, rather Europe and the US are also affected by its destructive impacts.

Bangladesh origin United Kingdom’s Labour Party lawmaker and Sheikh Rehana’s daughter Tulip Siddiq has been ranked on the most influential politicians’ list in London this year, according to a message.

The EU’s incoming president Ursula von der Leyen plans to live in a tiny flat attached to her Brussels office rather than rent an apartment, her staff told AFP yesterday. The president of the European Commission has no official residence -- a fact that irked von der Leyen’s

Members of the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion yesterday used a decommissioned fire engine to spray fake blood over the front of Britain’s finance ministry in London. Protesters, who sprayed 1,800 litres of the fake blood outside the Treasury, also held up

A Russian man has filed a lawsuit against Apple for moral harm claiming that an iPhone app had turned him gay, according to a copy of the complaint seen by AFP. The man filed suit in a Moscow court asking for one million rubles ($15,000) after an incident this summer in

Facebook on Wednesday was dealt a major blow in the EU’s top court, which ruled that national courts in Europe can order online platforms to remove defamatory content worldwide.

A man wielding a knife stabbed and killed four officers at the police headquarters in the heart of central Paris on Thursday, before being shot dead.

A UK High Court judge yesterday ruled in favour of India in a decades-old legal dispute with Pakistan over funds belonging to the Nizam of Hyderabad at the time of Partition in 1947 and deposited in a London bank account.

A special ship designed to clean the oceans has harvested its first plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch since setting sail from San Francisco last month, its Dutch inventor said yesterday. The project by The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch non-profit group, involves a supply

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday proposed a new Brexit plan aimed at removing the need for customs checks at the Irish border, calling the EU-backed approach a “bridge to nowhere”.