Nato yesterday declined an overture by Qatar to join the Western military defence alliance, saying membership was reserved to the United

Voters cast ballots in eight US states for key primary elections yesterday, with all eyes on California, where the outcome could swing

Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg yesterday said he was battling to stop the increasingly bitter row between Europe and the US spilling over

Turkish police have jailed one of the country's most prominent cartoonists to serve out a 14 month sentence first handed down last year

Same-sex partners of European Union (EU) citizens have the right to live in any member state whatever their nationality, the bloc's top court rules today, even in countries that do not recognise gay marriage.

A Russian court sentences a Ukrainian journalist, Roman Sushchenko, to 12 years in jail after convicting him of spying for his native Ukraine, his lawyer says, a move likely to further sour ties between Moscow and Kiev.

Some 18,000 troops from 19 mostly Nato countries began annual US-led military exercises in Poland and the Baltic states on Sunday to

Hollywood actor Benedict Cumberbatch channelled his inner Sherlock Holmes by leaping to the defence of a cyclist under attack by

At least 35 migrants are killed when their boat sank off Tunisia’s southern coast and 67 others are rescued by the coast guard, the Defence Ministry says.

Bomb disposal experts have defused a Second World War shell found during building work at Brussels' international airport, officials said

Nationalists regained control of Catalonia's government yesterday and immediately pledged to seek independence for the wealthy region, posing a swift challenge to new Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez who took office on the same day.

An anti-establishment government took power in Italy yesterday after a last-ditch coalition deal was hammered out to end months of political turmoil, narrowly avoiding snap elections in the eurozone's third largest economy.

The world's largest economies stood on the brink of all-out trade war as the EU, Canada and Mexico drew up retaliatory measures to Washington's stinging steel and aluminium tariffs that came into effect yesterday.

An anti-establishment government takes power in Italy after a last-ditch coalition deal was hammered out to end months of political turmoil, narrowly avoiding snap elections in the eurozone's third largest economy.

Spain's centre-right Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is set to be voted out of office on Friday and replaced by a Socialist, in a no-confidence motion triggered by a long-running corruption trial involving members of his party.

Denmark yesterday became the latest European country to ban the Islamic full-face veil in public spaces in a move slammed by human

Amsterdam yesterday warned rowdy British and Dutch tourists who "party excessively" in the city that they could face stiff fines, in the

More than half of the world's children are threatened by conflict, poverty or sexual discrimination, Save the Children said in a report

Spain's Mariano Rajoy was fighting for his political life yesterday as his government faced a no-confidence vote tabled by the

The latest escalation of fighting between Israel and Palestinian Hamas has pushed Gaza to the brink of war, the UN envoy for the Middle East