Belgium launched a huge manhunt yesterday after a series of bombings claimed by the Islamic State group ripped through Brussels airport and a metro train, killing around 35 people.

Brussels residents turned to Twitter to offer people stranded in the Belgian capital rooms and transport after the attacks. A new Twitter account called "Brussels

A Russian judge yesterday said Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was complicit in the killing of two Russian journalists, an assertion certain to inflame

Belgian prosecutors yesterday said they had discovered the real identity of an accomplice in the Paris attacks, as they met with French counterparts to discuss the probe into November's carnage.

Turkish officials arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos yesterday to help implement a deal with the European Union to tackle a migrant crisis that has tested European cohesion to its limits.

Belgian prosecutors say that DNA has identified an accomplice of captured Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam.

Mathematician Andrew Wiles of the University of Oxford is awarded the prestigious Abel Prize for his remarkable proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the early 90s, reports Business Insider.

The Kurdish militant group TAK says it carried out Sunday's deadly attack in the Turkish capital, Ankara in revenge for 'military operations in the mainly Kurdish south-east'.

Russian forces are preparing to start leaving Syria after Monday's surprise withdrawal announcement by President Vladimir Putin.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party braced for a backlash at key state polls yesterday over the German leader's liberal refugee policy, while the right-wing populist AfD prepared to scoop up the protest vote from angry voters.

French investigators probing the Germanwings plane crash called yesterday for clearer rules on the lifting of medical confidentiality if pilots show signs of psychological problems.

French investigators calls for medical confidentiality to be relaxed for pilots, in the wake of last year's Germanwings disaster.

The names of three of the Paris attackers appear in files leaked from the Islamic State militant group, according to German media reports.

EU and Turkish leaders seek to turn into a lasting accord a plan on easing Europe's migrant crisis hailed as a game-changer by Ankara and Brussels but swiftly criticised by the UN's refugee chief.

EU president Donald Tusk strikes an unusually upbeat note on the migrant crisis as Turkey raised the possibility of taking back non-Syrian asylum seekers.

Turkish police raid the offices of the opposition Zaman newspaper, hours after a court ruling places it under state control.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 84, married model Jerry Hall in London yesterday after the couple announced their engagement in January, a spokesman for the

An Istanbul court yesterday ordered into administration a Turkish daily newspaper that is sharply critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, amid growing

A Turkish court yesterday sentenced two Syrian people smugglers to more than four years in prison over the drowning of Aylan Kurdi,

World leaders hailed "real progress" in Syria yesterday, but fresh air strikes showed the fragility of the week-old truce and the many obstacles still in the way of peace talks.