Global temperatures in 2018 are set to be the fourth highest on record, the UN said yesterday, stressing the urgent need for action to rein in runaway warming of the planet.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko yesterday accused Russia's Vladimir Putin of wanting to annex his entire country and called for Nato to deploy warships to a sea shared by the two nations.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned of the threat of "full-scale war" and said Russia had sharply increased its military presence on their shared border as tensions escalate between the ex-Soviet neighbours.

President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that France would shut down 14 of the country's 58 nuclear reactors currently in operation by

Intelligence agencies have arrested a senior French civil servant who worked at the Senate on suspicion he passed confidential

There is a 75-80 percent chance of a weak El Nino weather pattern forming by February and a slightly lower likelihood that it will continue through the northern hemisphere winter of 2018-19, the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said yesterday.

Theresa May's Brexit deal is "doomed" to fail, a former Tory cabinet minister has said, in the wake of warnings from Donald Trump that the blueprint could hinder trade with the US.

British Prime Minister Theresa May convened her cabinet and was to face parliament on the newly-agreed Brexit deal yesterday, as she begins the tricky task of selling the plan to a sceptical country.

The Brexit deal agreed by EU leaders yesterday now faces the daunting task of approval in the British parliament, where it faces stiff

European Union leaders formally agree on a Brexit deal at a Brussels summit, urging Britons to back Prime Minister Theresa May's package, which faces furious opposition in the British parliament.

Britain's Minister Theresa May makes a dramatic direct appeal to the British public to support her deal to exit the European Union today even as backing from her own party for the agreement appears to elude her.

Police yesterday fired tear gas and water cannon in central Paris against "yellow vest" protesters demanding French President Emmanuel Macron roll back tax hikes on motor fuel.

Russia "indisputably" now poses a bigger threat to Britain's security than terrorist groups like Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda, the head of the British army said in an interview published yesterday.

European leaders resolved a last-minute dispute over the future of Gibraltar yesterday, clearing the way for a summit to approve the Brexit deal.

European Union negotiators met yesterday to try to clear the last hurdle before Sunday's summit to endorse the Brexit deal, but Spain's eleventh-hour objection over Gibraltar means the final text could not be ready until the last minute.

The EU and Britain yesterday agreed a draft declaration laying out plans for "ambitious, broad, deep and flexible" relations after Brexit, setting the stage for the divorce to be finalised at a weekend summit.

Spain will vote against the European Union's draft Brexit deal on Sunday unless it is modified to make clear that the future of the disputed British territory of Gibraltar relies on talks between Madrid and London, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said.

President Vladimir Putin denied any Russian involvement when US Vice President Mike Pence asked last week about meddling in the 2016

British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday vowed to stick to her draft European Union divorce deal as dissenting lawmakers in her

British Prime Minister Theresa May told the plotters planning to overthrow her that getting rid of her as PM would not make delivering