Fifteen months into Ukraine's bitter conflict, some have begun to hope that the region's first effective ceasefire just might turn into a longer peace.

Jeremy Corbyn has unveiled what he called a "unifying" new shadow cabinet, naming his left-wing ally John McDonnell as shadow chancellor.

The aunt of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi whose drowning off Turkey shocked the world visited Brussels yesterday and tearfully urged the EU to adopt an emergency plan to redistribute refugees.

The two-decade-old era of border-free travel in Europe was unraveling yesterday as countries imposed controls on their frontiers in response to an unprecedented influx of migrants. Germany's surprise decision to restore border controls on Sunday had a swift domino effect, forcing neighbors to shut their own frontiers as thousands of refugees pressed north and west across the continent.

The Supreme Court upholds the High Court order that had granted bail to Destiny 2000 President Lt Gen (retd) Harun-Ar-Rashid in two money laundering cases.

Prime Minister David Cameron said Sunday that veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn's election to the Labour leadership made the main opposition party a threat to Britain's national security.

SNP, the party that rules Scotland, will set out a timetable for a possible second Scottish independence referendum in its 2016 Holyrood manifesto, Nicola Sturgeon has revealed.

Seventy-two House Democrats joined human rights groups on Friday in calling for the US to admit 100,000 Syrian refugees next fiscal year, saying the White House's proposal to take in 10,000 of them is far from enough.

The German government wants to temporarily reintroduce border controls in response to the refugee exodus, German newspaper Bild said yesterday as authorities in Berlin warned they were stretched to capacity to welcome refugees. Meanwhile, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said refugees streaming into Europe should not be able to choose where to settle, as authorities said thousands more were on the move across the continent.

Germany and other western European powers need to work with Russia as well as the United States to solve the crisis in Syria, German Chancellor Angela

Three policemen were killed by Kurdish militants yesterday in two separate attacks in Turkey's southeast, security sources said, as weeks of violence showed no

Turkey yesterday lifted a week-long curfew imposed on the predominantly Kurdish south-eastern city of Cizre, media reports said. Cizre was sealed off since

US President Barack Obama said Friday that Russia's decision to send military advisors and equipment to Syria extended a strategy "doomed to failure," and could kill off already stagnant peace efforts.

Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka returned safely to Earth with two other astronauts from the International Space Station yesterday

A British-funded memorial to the thousands killed, tortured and jailed in the Mau Mau rebellion was unveiled in Kenya yesterday, in a rare example of former rulers commemorating a colonial uprising.

Austria's chancellor criticised Hungary for its handling of the refugee crisis on Saturday, likening the country's policies to Nazi deportations during the Holocaust as refugees complained of their treatment in the eastern European country.

Anti-austerity leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party yesterday in a landslide victory that

Greece's radical-left Syriza party has established a narrow lead over conservative rivals New Democracy nine days from a snap election, according to a poll

Activists planned new protests in Venezuela yesterday after jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison for inciting

Turkish warplanes struck 64 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in overnight raids on northern Iraq, dropping 80 bombs, the Turkish media reported