An anti-establishment government took power in Italy yesterday after a last-ditch coalition deal was hammered out to end months of political turmoil, narrowly avoiding snap elections in the eurozone's third largest economy.

The world's largest economies stood on the brink of all-out trade war as the EU, Canada and Mexico drew up retaliatory measures to Washington's stinging steel and aluminium tariffs that came into effect yesterday.

An anti-establishment government takes power in Italy after a last-ditch coalition deal was hammered out to end months of political turmoil, narrowly avoiding snap elections in the eurozone's third largest economy.

Spain's centre-right Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is set to be voted out of office on Friday and replaced by a Socialist, in a no-confidence motion triggered by a long-running corruption trial involving members of his party.

Spain's Mariano Rajoy was fighting for his political life yesterday as his government faced a no-confidence vote tabled by the

The latest escalation of fighting between Israel and Palestinian Hamas has pushed Gaza to the brink of war, the UN envoy for the Middle East

President Donald Trump said yesterday he expects a letter from Kim Jong Un confirming plans for their historic nuclear summit, as

Denmark yesterday became the latest European country to ban the Islamic full-face veil in public spaces in a move slammed by human

Amsterdam yesterday warned rowdy British and Dutch tourists who "party excessively" in the city that they could face stiff fines, in the

More than half of the world's children are threatened by conflict, poverty or sexual discrimination, Save the Children said in a report

Denmark today became the latest European country to ban the Islamic full-face veil in public spaces in a move slammed by human rights campaigners as "a violation of women's rights".

Papua New Guinea said yesterday it was mulling a temporary shutdown of Facebook to uncover false accounts and block fake news in the

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy yesterday vowed not to resign ahead of a no-confidence vote in parliament Friday over graft

Russia on Tuesday rejected calls at the United Nations to accept responsibility for the downing of Flight MH17 over Ukraine after an

Belgian investigators yesterday said an Islamic State-style attack that killed three people in the eastern city of Liege was being treated

Security forces cleared more than 1,000 people from a sprawling migrant camp in the French capital yesterday, the latest in a series of

A couple who duped their daughter into travelling to Bangladesh to marry her cousin and threatened to "chop her up" when she refuses is found guilty of forced marriage yesterday, the second conviction in Britain within a week.

A prominent Russian journalist and critic of President Vladimir Putin is shot dead in Ukraine where he had fled into exile following threats, police say.

Mamoudou Gassama, the 22-year-old Malian "Spiderman" feted for saving a child hanging from a balcony, took his first step toward

The Kremlin said yesterday that US Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US