Activists planned new protests in Venezuela yesterday after jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison for inciting

Turkish warplanes struck 64 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in overnight raids on northern Iraq, dropping 80 bombs, the Turkish media reported

Hundreds of thousands of Catalans poured into the streets yesterday demanding independence, ahead of a regional election billed as an indirect vote on

More than 430,000 migrants and refugees have reached Europe via the Mediterranean since the start of the year, the International Organization for Migration

A Hungarian camerawoman who caused global outrage after being caught on film tripping and kicking refugees as they fled police apologised yesterday and

Saudi Arabia has reportedly responded to the growing number of people fleeing the Middle East for western Europe – by offering to build 200 mosques in

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

Elizabeth, now 89, ascended to the throne in 1952 at the twilight of British empire, with Britain slowly emerging from the ravages of World War Two.

Around 2,000 refugees have arrived at Austria's border from Hungary, and the numbers could more than double through the day, Austrian police say.

Ugly scenes erupted in Hungary yesterday as migrants fought their way onto what they thought was the first train to western Europe in days, only to be left feeling tricked as police halted the train and tried to move them to a refugee camp. Mayhem ensued at the small train station of Bicske where it was stopped, including when one man pulled a woman and a baby onto the train tracks and refused to be moved before several bulky police dragged him off.

French prosecutors yesterday confirmed that a wing part found on a remote Indian Ocean island was from ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a month after tests on the flaperon began.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban yesterday warned that the wave of refugees and migrants coming to Europe and the EU's "failed immigration policy"

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi yesterday said that Europe could not just limit itself to an emotional reaction to pictures of asylum-seekers dying, but had

Four Turkish police were killed yesterday in a bomb attack on their vehicle in the country's southeast blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),

Two civilians were killed Wednesday in eastern Ukraine, undermining fresh efforts to end violence as the European Union agreed to extend sanctions against

A fire in an apartment building in northern Paris early yesterday that killed eight people, including two children, might have been started intentionally, officials

Thousands of refugees and migrants arrived in Athens yesterday, piling further pressure on increasingly divided European nations as they struggle to cope with the unprecedented influx.

Thai police investigating the deadly Erawan Shrine bombing in Bangkok say fingerprints on possible bomb-making equipment found at the weekend match those of a man detained on Tuesday.

A fire in an apartment building in northern Paris kills eight people, including two children.

Ukraine was in shock yesterday after fierce clashes outside parliament killed three policemen and wounded 140 people as tensions flared over controversial