French police were holding two suspects yesterday after finding several gas cylinders in a car near Paris's Notre

Two members of the assembly that awards the Nobel prize for medicine are to quit for failing to heed warnings about a major

Black Lives Matter protesters chained themselves together on the runway of London's City Airport yesterday, forcing all

The Italian navy announced yesterday it had recovered the bodies of six migrants in search and rescue operations

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats fell to third place in a state election yesterday behind the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, TV projections showed.

Colombia's peace deal with FARC rebels will be formally signed on September 26, in a new milestone towards ending

Turkish security forces suffered a bloody 24 hours after 13 soldiers and a village guardsman were killed in three

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday urged both sides on the Korean peninsula to calm tensions after meeting

A golden retriever called Romeo has been pulled from the rubble of Italy's earthquake, more than nine days after he

Evidence is growing that Russia is behind a significant increase in the use of cluster bombs in Syria, campaigners said yesterday.

British Airways was yesterday to become the first British airline in four years to fly directly to Iran following the lifting of some sanctions

The leak of secret technical data on French submarines designed for the Indian navy was a "malicious act", Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le

Twice as many British people support a ban on women wearing a burqa than oppose one, with a majority also in favour of outlawing the

Russia on Tuesday questioned the findings of a UN-led investigation that blamed the Syrian regime for chemical attacks,

The German government wants Facebook to be more proactive in monitoring and, if necessary, removing forbidden as well as offensive content from its social network platform.

Around 6,500 migrants are rescued off the coast of Libya, the Italian coastguard said, in one of its busiest days of life-saving in recent years.

Several attackers yesterday rammed a car through the gates of Belgium's national crime laboratory in Brussels and then started a fire in what prosecutors said may have been an attempt to destroy evidence.

Turkey yesterday warned it would carry out more strikes on a Syrian Kurdish militia if it failed to retreat beyond the Euphrates

The human impact on Earth's chemistry and climate has cut short the 11,700-year-old geological epoch known as the

More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lightning in southern Norway, Norwegian officials said yesterday, in the largest