Greece starts deportations

The first migrants deported from Greek islands under a disputed EU-Turkey deal were shipped back to Turkey yesterday in a drive to shut down the main route by which a million people fleeing war and poverty crossed the Aegean Sea in the last year.
4 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Clashes on despite truce calls

Azerbaijan yesterday said it would stop fighting Armenian-backed separatists over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region after two days of clashes, but the other side denounced Baku's gesture as hollow and said violence was continuing.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Brussels Airport reopens with tighter security

Brussels Airport reopens with three "symbolic" flights and strict additional security checks for passengers, marking a new era for air travel in Belgium after attacks by Islamic State suicide bombers.
3 April 2016, 06:44 AM

Greece readies to send first migrants back in EU-Turkey deal

Greek authorities are gearing up to send hundreds of failed asylum-seekers back to Turkey, which is racing to set up reception centres under a controversial EU deal.
3 April 2016, 05:30 AM

Brussels airport to reopen today

Brussels airport plans to partially reopen today with new security controls, 10 days after it was attacked by suicide
2 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Concern rises as EU-Turkey deal looms

There is growing concern over a lack of preparation for the plan to send migrants back from Greece to Turkey, two
2 April 2016, 18:00 PM

One in eight adults now obese globally

Over one in eight adults are now obese -- a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Former German FM Genscher dies

Germany's longest-serving foreign minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, whose tireless Cold War diplomacy paved the way
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Google left red-faced after April Fools' prank backfires

The joke was on Google yesterday when it had to pull an April Fools' Day prank featuring characters from the
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Two journos back in court

The controversial trial of two well-known Turkish journalists entered its second day yesterday in a case seen as a
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Turkey 'illegally returning Syrian refugees'

Amnesty International yesterday accused Turkey of illegally forcing groups of Syrians to return to their conflict-torn
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Bomb attack kills 6 cops in Turkey

Six police officers were killed and at least 23 people wounded yesterday in a bomb attack targeting a Turkish police vehicle in the
31 March 2016, 20:53 PM

France drops plans to change charter

French President Francois Hollande yesterday scrapped contested constitutional reforms he proposed after the Paris
30 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Brussels attacks: Belgium releases terror murder suspect

A man known as Faycal C, arrested and charged in Belgium with terrorist offences after the Brussels attacks, is released for lack of evidence.
28 March 2016, 15:07 PM

Belgium presses manhunt after new plot revealed

Police presses ahead with the search for suspects in Belgium's worst ever terror attack, as a series of raids and arrests reveal more links with the November Paris killings and a new French plot.
26 March 2016, 09:28 AM

Brussels attacks: Victims and survivors

Names are emerging of some of the hundreds of people killed, injured, or missing following Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels that left at least 31 dead in the three bomb attacks at Brussels airport and Maelbeek metro station.
24 March 2016, 11:53 AM

IS trains 400 fighters to attack Europe in wave of bloodshed

The Islamic State group has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum chaos, officials have told The Associated Press.
24 March 2016, 04:57 AM

Mathematician Andrew Wiles and the theorem that made him famous

Mathematician Andrew Wiles of the University of Oxford is awarded the prestigious Abel Prize for his remarkable proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the early 90s, reports Business Insider.
19 March 2016, 06:13 AM

Ankara blast: Kurdish group TAK claims bombing

The Kurdish militant group TAK says it carried out Sunday's deadly attack in the Turkish capital, Ankara in revenge for 'military operations in the mainly Kurdish south-east'.
17 March 2016, 13:00 PM

Syria conflict: Russia forces begin withdrawal after Putin surprise move

Russian forces are preparing to start leaving Syria after Monday's surprise withdrawal announcement by President Vladimir Putin.
15 March 2016, 07:11 AM