Former British prime minister Edward Heath would have been questioned over claims that he sexually assaulted five boys if he was still

Spanish judges yesterday ordered Catalan lawmakers to suspend a planned session that could see the region declare independence as

France's lower house of parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a new counter-terrorism bill. It will allow the

Feral and pet cats kill more than one million birds in Australia every day, new research showed yesterday, with the

Nearly half of Cambodia's opposition parliamentarians have fled abroad in the past month to escape a government

French police arrested five people, including one on a terror watchlist, after discovering a suspected home-made bomb in one of Paris's

An honour bestowed on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi by the city of Oxford has been withdrawn as a reaction to her perceived

Several hundred thousand Catalans yesterday rallied in fury at police violence against voters during a banned independence

Russia's FSB security service said yesterday it had detained members of what it said was an Islamic State sleeper cell in the Moscow

A man with a knife stabbed two women to death Sunday at the main train station in the southern French city of Marseille as he reportedly

Two women are stabbed to death and their assailant shot dead by soldiers in the southern port city of Marseille in what police sources describe as a "likely terrorist act".

More than 460 people have been injured in disturbances across Catalonia, the Barcelona mayor says, as riot police clashed with people who had gathered for a banned referendum on the region's independence from the rest of Spain.

Police in Catalonia had already sealed over half of the 2,315 polling stations in the region mid-yesterday to stop an

Contributing 19 percent of Spain's GDP in 2016, Catalonia rivals Madrid for the distinction of being the richest

Police in Catalonia has already sealed over half of the 2,315 polling stations in the region to stop an independence referendum from taking place, the Spanish government says, as separatists remained determined to fight for their right to vote.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who aims to unseat Vladimir Putin in presidential elections next year, was detained ahead of a

Praised to the skies and bearing great hopes, they went on to disappoint the world: as the case of Aung San Suu Kyi shows, Nobel Peace Prize winners have not always lived up to expectations.

The EU yesterday warned that Britain needs a miracle to unlock the next phase of Brexit talks by next month as it hopes, as leaders

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks on Syria and a key weapons

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the United States yesterday that Turkey could release a jailed American pastor if Washington