Gibraltar police have said that all four crew members of the Iranian Grace 1 tanker have been released on bail without charge after it was detained last week on suspicion of breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Syria.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted she was “very well”, despite suffering her third trembling spell in less than a month yesterday. Merkel began shaking involuntarily as national anthems were being played at the reception of Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne. But she

Workers of Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage have the lowest median hourly pay of any ethnic group, in the latter case earning 20.1% less than white British workers, the first official statistics on the subject show.

The French government yesterday said that its missiles had been found in Libya on a base used by rebel forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar, in

Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday said Britain’s next prime minister must put their Brexit plan to a second

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said Monday he was “optimistic” after dialogue between his government and the opposition

Turkish police began nationwide raids yesterday aimed at detaining over 200 military personnel suspected of ties to the group blamed

Greece’s new conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in yesterday after a sweeping election victory put him in

French prosecutors on Friday urged a Paris court to find the former bosses of France Telecom guilty of “moral harassment” and hand

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday that he had not backed violent protests in Hong Kong, after Chinese state media blamed “Western ideologues” for fomenting unrest in the former British colony.

A volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli has erupted, releasing hot trapped magma in a powerful explosion, killing one person and enveloping the popular tourist destination in ash, witnesses and local officials have said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday signed into law a bill on the suspension of a crucial arms control treaty signed by US president

The European Parliament yesterday elected an Italian social democrat as its new president, filling the final top EU job a day after Brussels named two women to key posts for the first time.

China yesterday said it lodged an official protest with London over remarks by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt about Hong Kong, accusing him of “fantasising in the faded glory of British colonialism”.

Last month was the hottest June ever recorded with soaring temperatures worldwide capped off by a record-breaking heatwave across

After mysteriously expanding for decades, Antarctica’s sea ice cover melted by an area four times greater than France in just a few years

The body of a man thought to have been a stowaway who fell from the landing gear of a Kenya Airways flight on its way into Heathrow Airport has been found in a garden in London, police said.

An errant missile struck Cyprus early yesterday, skimming the densely populated capital Nicosia and crashing on a mountainside in

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said police were working around the clock after four people were murdered in a bloody 28-hour period for

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government and opposition leader Juan Guaido’s team will restart negotiations to try to resolve