Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting -- a biennial summit of governmental leaders from all Commonwealth nations -- today

Eight people were killed and at least 10 were wounded in a shooting in the town of Mladenovac, south of Belgrade, local media reported, with police setting up roadblocks in their hunt for the gunman..The shooting comes less than 48 hours after a 13-year old boy shot dead nine and injured s

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives yesterday braced for heavy losses in their first major electoral test since he became the UK’s third leader in the space of a few chaotic weeks last year.

Some 258 million people needed emergency food aid last year because of conflict, economic shocks and climate disasters, a UN report said yesterday, a sharp rise from 193 million the previous year.

Journalism is being battered by propaganda and increasingly sophisticated fakes, aided by AI software and a failure of oversight from tech companies, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said yesterday.

A 14-year-old boy shot his teacher in a Belgrade classroom this morning before opening fire on other students and security guards, killing eight pupils and a security guard, Serbia's interior ministry said..Milan Milosevic, the father of one of the pupils at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementa

A global crackdown has halted a major “dark web” marketplace, with international police arresting 288 suspects and recovering more than 50 million euros

Protesters clashed with security forces across France on Monday as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets for Labour Day to vent their anger against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform

The BBC’s chairman yesterday announced his resignation after his involvement in a loan for then UK prime minister Boris Johnson raised questions about the broadcaster’s vaunted impartiality.

The United States added new sanctions on Russia's FSB intelligence agency and Iran's Revolutionary Guard yesterday for taking "hostage" Americans like a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia last month

A new British law which seeks to bar the entry of asylum seekers arriving in small boats across the Channel was approved by the lower house of parliament on Wednesday, after the government accepted several amendments from rebel Conservatives

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said yesterday he could face life in prison on “terrorism” charges while another popular opposition politician went on trial in Russia’s escalating clampdown on dissent.

An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that the world was probably on the verge of a new world war and the risks of a nuclear confrontation were rising.

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly yesterday was expected to argue it would be “a betrayal” of Britain’s national interest to isolate China and urge against declaring “a new Cold War”.

The Kremlin said yesterday that a global shortfall in food supplies was not primarily attributable to a lack of Russian and Ukrainian grain on the market.

Italy has rescued 47 boats carrying around 1,600 migrants in the central Mediterranean sea in the last two days and brought them ashore to the island of Lampedusa.

Protesters greeted French President Emmanuel Macron with boos and calls for him to resign in his first public appearance since he signed into law an unpopular rise in the retirement age.

Scientists have found coastal species of shellfish and anemones living and breeding on floating islands of garbage in the Pacific thousands of miles from home.

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday staunchly defended his widely unpopular pension reform but said he understood the “anger” felt by the French after three months of protests.

Mexico’s president said Monday that his country would not tolerate spying by US on its security institutions, as an intelligence leak sparked new diplomatic tensions between the neighbours.