A consortium of astronomers said yesterday they had for the first time confirmed a prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of general

A Romanian minister yesterday apologised for having compared the incineration of dead pigs infected with African-swine-fever to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Some 400 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa reached Spain yesterday after storming a double barrier between Morocco and the Spanish territory of Ceuta, with some attacking security forces with quicklime, police said.

Heavy rains leads to flash flooding in the north of Athens, three days after devastating wildfires killed scores of people in the region around the Greek capital.

Prime Minister Theresa May announced Tuesday she will take personal control of Brexit negotiations with the EU, as time runs out to get

The Islamic State group yesterday claimed responsibility for a weekend shooting that killed two people in Canada's Toronto. Faisal

At least 79 people died in huge wildfires around Athens, Greek authorities said yesterday, as rescuers scoured scorched homes and

Islamic State militants killed more than 200 people in a coordinated assault on a government-held area of southwestern Syria yesterday, local officials and a war monitor said, in the group's deadliest attack in the country for years.

France's opposition yesterday lashed out at Emmanuel Macron over his response to revelations that his top security aide roughed up

More than 200 environmental activists were murdered last year as government-sponsored killings linked to lucrative projects by vast

The number of dead from a fire which ripped through a Greek coastal town reached at least 81 yesterday as frantic relatives tried to track down people missing from the inferno and officials began the grim task of identifying bodies.

The race starter stands up and shouts: “Ready, steady, slow!” The crowd cheers, but the competitors remain stuck at the start line. Welcome to the world snail racing championship.

Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than a third

Nine people were injured in a knife attack on a bus by "a 34-year-old German citizen of Iranian origin" German officials said, although

The most damaging scandal of Emmanuel Macron's presidency deepened yesterday as his interior minister faces a grilling over his response to a top security aide caught on video striking a young man at a Paris protest in May.

British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday called on the European Union to strike a new deal to prevent a hard border in Northern Ireland and demanded Brussels quickly respond to her plan to avoid a damaging no-deal Brexit.

The European Union's migrant strategy suffered a major new setback yesterday with Italy refusing to freely accept people rescued at sea and Libya spurning a proposal for asylum processing centres.

Meetings between the US and Russian presidents should become the "normality", German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday, adding that it is "good for all" that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin plan new talks.

A British man was found guilty of a plot to kill Prime Minister Theresa May by first detonating an explosive device to get into her Downing Street office and then using a knife or a gun to attack her.

A Spanish judge yesterday dropped European and international arrest warrants for deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and other separatist leaders who fled abroad, the Supreme Court said, which means they no longer face extradition.