President Donald Trump said yesterday he expects a letter from Kim Jong Un confirming plans for their historic nuclear summit, as

Denmark today became the latest European country to ban the Islamic full-face veil in public spaces in a move slammed by human rights campaigners as "a violation of women's rights".

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy yesterday vowed not to resign ahead of a no-confidence vote in parliament Friday over graft

Russia on Tuesday rejected calls at the United Nations to accept responsibility for the downing of Flight MH17 over Ukraine after an

Belgian investigators yesterday said an Islamic State-style attack that killed three people in the eastern city of Liege was being treated

Security forces cleared more than 1,000 people from a sprawling migrant camp in the French capital yesterday, the latest in a series of

Papua New Guinea said yesterday it was mulling a temporary shutdown of Facebook to uncover false accounts and block fake news in the

A couple who duped their daughter into travelling to Bangladesh to marry her cousin and threatened to "chop her up" when she refuses is found guilty of forced marriage yesterday, the second conviction in Britain within a week.

A prominent Russian journalist and critic of President Vladimir Putin is shot dead in Ukraine where he had fled into exile following threats, police say.

Mamoudou Gassama, the 22-year-old Malian "Spiderman" feted for saving a child hanging from a balcony, took his first step toward

The Kremlin said yesterday that US Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US

British MPs probing sexual abuse in the international charitable sector are investigating an unpublished UN report from 2001 naming 15 major aid organisations implicated in a "sex-for-food" scandal, The Times newspaper reported yesterday.

Rival Libyan factions yesterday agreed on a declaration that would create a political framework to pave the way for UN-backed elections in December to end the country's seven-year-old conflict.

Doctors in Britain who treated former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter following their March poisoning in Salisbury have said they initially feared the pair would not recover.

A gunman kills two police officers and a passer-by on Tuesday before being shot dead in the centre of the Belgian city of Liege, public broadcaster Radio Television Belge Francophone (RTBF) says on its website and authorities says terrorism could not be ruled out as a motive.

Germany is worried by signs of weakening in the network of multilateral organisations and agreements designed to foster international cooperation, Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday.

Italy's president set the country on a path back to fresh elections yesterday, appointing a former International Monetary Fund official as interim prime minister with the task of planning for snap polls and passing the next budget.

The European Union yesterday proposed a bloc-wide ban on single-use plastics such as straws, cutlery and cotton buds while urging the collection of most plastic drinks bottles by 2025.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo praises the heroism of a Malian immigrant who scaled the facade of a four-storey building in the north of capital to save a child hanging from a ledge, saying the city will support his effort to settle in France.

Spain's maritime rescue service yesterday said it had rescued 532 migrants who were attempting the perilous crossing of the