At least 49 people were killed Saturday when a tour bus plunged hundreds of meters into a densely wooded ravine in southern Brazil,

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is to visit Cuba later this month in a bid to spur talks aimed at normalising ties with the

The Vatican's ambassador to the United Nations endorses military action against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria -- an unusual move because the Vatican traditionally has opposed force in the region

Pope Francis has suggested he may resign his papacy like his predecessor, rather than remain at the Vatican for life.

A report on Russia's role in Ukraine conflict - compiled by murdered Nemtsov - will be released in April

Terming it a "calamity", Vanuatu's president calls for international help after Cyclone Pam ripped through the Pacific archipelago

Swedish prosecutors want to question Julian Assange in London over allegations of sexual assault, potentially ending an impasse that

The killing of Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov within sight of the Kremlin has exposed rarely seen tensions between different

GCHQ spooks have been sacked for inappropriately accessing people's personal information, it emerged yesterday.

Russian rescue workers yesterday combed through the incinerated rubble of a shopping mall for the bodies of 25 people still missing a

The daughter of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "politically" responsible for her

The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine between Kiev's forces and pro-Russian rebels is largely being observed but is still on "thin ice," an OSCE

German Chancellor Angela Merkel won't attend a May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow but will visit the Russian capital a day later, her office said yesterday, amid tensions over the Ukraine conflict.

Zaur Dadayev, a former Chechen police officer, who admitted taking part in the murder of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov "likely confessed under torture", a member of the Kremlin's human rights council told AFP yesterday.

Russia has said that it has the right to deploy nuclear weapons to Crimea, a year after Vladimir Putin seized the territory from Ukraine following a referendum.

A group of "battle-hardened" armed thieves attacked two heavily guarded vans carrying jewels at a French motorway toll in the dead of night, making off with a haul worth some nine million euros ($11 million), police said yesterday.

Ireland accidentally legalises ecstasy, crystal meth and ketamine for a day due to a legal loophole

President Vladimir Putin has revealed the moment he says he gave the secret order for Russia's annexation of Crimea and described how Russian troops were ready to fight to rescue Ukraine's deposed, pro-Moscow president.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel waded into the fraught area of wartime forgiveness during a visit to Japan yesterday, saying that "facing history squarely" and "generous gestures" are necessary to mend ties.

Britain's Houses of Parliament is crumbling and overrun with mice, prompting its top official to warn the building may have to be "abandoned" without urgent renovations