Newly elected British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday engaged with David Cameron for the first time, bringing a low-key style to the usually raucous weekly showdown of Prime Minister's Questions.

Pollution, industrial fishing and climate change have killed off half of marine life in the last four decades, according to a WWF report released yesterday. Species essential to global food supply -- especially in poorer nations where fish provide essential dietary protein -- were among the hardest hit, the conservation group's Living Blue Planet Report said.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the West is "crying" for refugees flooding into Europe but its support for "terrorists" in his country lies at the roots of the crisis.

The two-decade-old era of border-free travel in Europe was unraveling yesterday as countries imposed controls on their frontiers in response to an unprecedented influx of migrants. Germany's surprise decision to restore border controls on Sunday had a swift domino effect, forcing neighbors to shut their own frontiers as thousands of refugees pressed north and west across the continent.

Fifteen months into Ukraine's bitter conflict, some have begun to hope that the region's first effective ceasefire just might turn into a longer peace.

Jeremy Corbyn has unveiled what he called a "unifying" new shadow cabinet, naming his left-wing ally John McDonnell as shadow chancellor.

The aunt of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi whose drowning off Turkey shocked the world visited Brussels yesterday and tearfully urged the EU to adopt an emergency plan to redistribute refugees.

Germany and other western European powers need to work with Russia as well as the United States to solve the crisis in Syria, German Chancellor Angela

Three policemen were killed by Kurdish militants yesterday in two separate attacks in Turkey's southeast, security sources said, as weeks of violence showed no

Prime Minister David Cameron said Sunday that veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn's election to the Labour leadership made the main opposition party a threat to Britain's national security.

SNP, the party that rules Scotland, will set out a timetable for a possible second Scottish independence referendum in its 2016 Holyrood manifesto, Nicola Sturgeon has revealed.

Seventy-two House Democrats joined human rights groups on Friday in calling for the US to admit 100,000 Syrian refugees next fiscal year, saying the White House's proposal to take in 10,000 of them is far from enough.

The German government wants to temporarily reintroduce border controls in response to the refugee exodus, German newspaper Bild said yesterday as authorities in Berlin warned they were stretched to capacity to welcome refugees. Meanwhile, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said refugees streaming into Europe should not be able to choose where to settle, as authorities said thousands more were on the move across the continent.

Turkey yesterday lifted a week-long curfew imposed on the predominantly Kurdish south-eastern city of Cizre, media reports said. Cizre was sealed off since

US President Barack Obama said Friday that Russia's decision to send military advisors and equipment to Syria extended a strategy "doomed to failure," and could kill off already stagnant peace efforts.

Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka returned safely to Earth with two other astronauts from the International Space Station yesterday

A British-funded memorial to the thousands killed, tortured and jailed in the Mau Mau rebellion was unveiled in Kenya yesterday, in a rare example of former rulers commemorating a colonial uprising.

Austria's chancellor criticised Hungary for its handling of the refugee crisis on Saturday, likening the country's policies to Nazi deportations during the Holocaust as refugees complained of their treatment in the eastern European country.

Anti-austerity leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party yesterday in a landslide victory that

Disturbing footage yesterday emerged of the way migrants are being treated inside Hungary's main refugee camp on the border with