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”.

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

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

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

Prince William and his wife Kate will visit Pakistan later this year on the first royal trip to the country in more than a decade, Kensington

A welcome dip in temperatures came to parts of Europe yesterday, bringing relief to areas which have sweltered through a widespread,

Two people are stabbed to death in separate incidents in London, including a woman who was about eight months pregnant, police say.

The Sea-Watch 3 charity ship carrying dozens of migrants rescued off Libya forced its way into the Italian port of Lampedusa after a lengthy standoff, the charity has said.

The United Nations must drop its bureaucratic timidity and stand up to its member states if it is to tackle global problems, a top UN official told Reuters in an interview.

China yesterday said it would import Iranian oil in defiance of US sanctions on Tehran, a day before US and Chinese leaders are to meet to try to resolve thorny trade disputes.

France registers its highest temperature since records began as the death toll rises from a heatwave suffocating much of Europe.

A viral video has turned a young man into the hero of the hour in Istanbul after he was seen catching a toddler as she plummeted from a second-floor window.

Europeans yesterday braced for the expected peak of a sweltering heatwave that has sent temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), with schools in France closing and wildfires in Spain spinning out of control.

Fraudsters posing as police officers stole 3.3 million euros ($3.7 million) from a Swiss woman, Swiss media reported yesterday. A female