The inventor of the World Wide Web on Monday called for a "contract" to make internet safe and accessible for everyone as Europe's largest tech event began in Lisbon amid a backlash over its role in spreading "fake news".

Citizens of Commonwealth countries will be able to join the British armed forces even if they do not live in Britain, the government said yesterday as it struggles to fill vacancies.

At least 12 people have been killed by severe weather on the island of Sicily, bringing the overall death toll from the storms sweeping

The Pacific islands of New Caledonia opted to remain part of France yesterday, early results showed, as voters rejected independence in a

Britain would remain in a temporary customs union with the EU, avoiding a hard Irish border, as part of a new deal being thrashed out

Russia yesterday said it will host international talks on Afghanistan on November 9, with representatives of both the Afghan government

Russian President Vladimir Putin may hold a "long" meeting with US counterpart Donald Trump during the G20 summit late this month, a

The world's oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought over the last quarter of a century, scientists said yesterday, leaving Earth more sensitive still to the effects of climate change.

Britain's Brexit minister believes a divorce deal with the European Union could be struck by November 21, it emerged Wednesday, prompting EU leaders to warn this would require a breakthrough within days.

More than 70 percent of Earth's last untouched wilderness lies in the territories of just five countries, scientists said Wednesday -- mostly nations that alarm environmentalists with their lukewarm response to climate change.

Scientists launched a vast project yesterday to map the genetic code of all 1.5 million known species of complex life on earth, aiming to complete the work within a decade.

Russia said it had launched a probe into terrorism after a 17-year-old blew himself up at a regional headquarters of the FSB security service yesterday, wounding three employees.

Austria yesterday said it will not sign a non-binding United Nations migration pact that is set to be adopted in December, in order to

France has launched a nationwide probe into incidents of babies being born with either missing or malformed arms after abnormal rates of birth defects in several regions have sparked a public health scare.

Exposure to toxic air both indoors and out kills some 600,000 children under the age of 15 each year, the World Health Organization warned yesterday.

Angela Merkel yesterday announced she will quit as German chancellor when her mandate ends in 2021, as she sought to draw a line under a series of political crises that have rocked her fragile coalition.

The parties of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's right-left "grand coalition" took a beating yesterday, strengthening fears that the second tough regional election in as many weeks could threaten the alliance's survival.

A UN General Assembly panel rejected Friday Russia's proposal to debate its resolution on preserving the Intermediate-Range Nuclear

The leaders of Turkey, Russia, France and Germany yesterday met to try to find a political solution to Syria's devastating civil war,

France has expelled an Iranian diplomat in response to a failed plot to carry out a bomb attack at a rally near Paris organised by an exiled Iranian opposition group, diplomatic and security sources say.