Italy yesterday doubled down on its new tough stance against migrants, calling for a German NGO's rescue boat to be impounded and its crew arrested as the EU prepares for a tense weekend mini-summit on the issue dividing the bloc.

Syrian government troops and affiliated forces committed war crimes and a crime against humanity in their long siege of eastern

British Prime Minister Theresa May's government saw off a rebellion by her pro-European MPs yesterday after making further concessions

A Tunisian man arrested in Germany in possession of the deadly poison ricin and bomb-making material was planning a biological

Living the high life -- growing up, in other words, at extreme altitude -- forces a developing human body to conserve energy, and that

The Macedonian parliament yesterday ratified a historic accord with Greece to rename the small Balkan nation the Republic of North

Even if marriage is sometimes more a bed of nails than roses, living into old age with a partner may help ward off heart disease and

Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini yesterday defended his plans to count the Roma community living in the country and

A van slammed into pedestrians near a Dutch campsite at a huge music festival early yesterday, killing one person and seriously injuring

Three people died in south London after being hit by a train, police said yesterday, amid reports they may have been graffiti artists.

Video gaming can be addictive in the same way as cocaine or gambling, the World Health Organization said yesterday in a much anticipated update of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

The number of civil conflicts worldwide has more than doubled since the start of the century, posing new challenges for curbing atrocities, the International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday.

Hardliners in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc yesterday gave her a two-week ultimatum to tighten asylum rules or risk pitching Germany into a political crisis that would also rattle Europe.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he had been freed yesterday, the same day the World Cup kicks off in the country, after

Antarctica has lost a staggering three trillion tonnes of ice since 1992, according to a landmark study published Wednesday that suggests the frozen continent could redraw Earth's coastlines if global warming continues unchecked.

The German government yesterday acknowledged that it will miss a 2020 target for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, but vowed to

The United Nations General Assembly was set to vote on condemning Israel for Palestinian deaths in Gaza in a resolution fiercely

Italy postponed high-level talks with France yesterday after Paris blasted Rome for its "nauseating" refusal to take in a migrant rescue

Prime Minister Theresa May defeated a rebellion in parliament over her Brexit plans yesterday, but only after having to compromise and hand lawmakers more control over Britain's departure from the European Union.

Spain yesterday offered to take in a ship stranded in the Mediterranean with 629 migrants aboard after Italy and Malta refused to let the vessel dock in their ports.