An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control, an official said yesterday.

The Armenian Church yesterday conferred sainthood on some 1.5 million Armenians massacred by Ottoman forces a century ago, in what is believed to be the biggest canonisation service in history.

Top Russian officials yesterday accused the United States of seeking political and military dominance in the world and sought to put blame on the West for international security crises, including the conflict in east Ukraine. Evoking Cold War-style rhetoric, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said a drive by the United States and its allies to bring Kiev closer to the West was a threat to Moscow and had forced it to react.

Russia's decision to supply Iran with the S-300 missile air defence system was seen by critics in Israel and the United States as proof

All Luciano Faggiano wanted, when he purchased a seemingly unremarkable building at 56 Via Ascanio Grandi, to open a trattoria -- a

British police have arrested six people on suspicion of terrorism after Turkish authorities stopped a group crossing the Syrian border,

Pope Francis yesterday uttered the word "genocide" to describe the mass murder of Armenians 100 years ago, sparking fury from Turkey which slammed the term as "far from historical reality". In a solemn mass in Saint Peter's Basilica to mark the centenary of the Ottoman killings of Armenians, Francis said the murders were "widely considered 'the first genocide of the 20th century'," quoting a statement signed by Pope John Paul II and the Armenian patriarch in 2001.

Labour will draw with the Conservatives for the number of votes received at next month's general election, according to a new poll.

Britain and Argentina's longstanding dispute over the Falklands escalated yesterday as Buenos Aires took legal action against

Hundreds of flights were cancelled and delays reported at airports around France yesterday as a strike by air traffic controllers entered

An armed man facing bankruptcy yesterday shot dead a judge and lawyer in a Milan court and wounded two other people before

Jeremy Clarkson is set to make his first appearance on the BBC since losing his job as co-presenter on Top Gear.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin in Moscow yesterday with the EU nervous that cash-strapped

Rescue workers in Chile say the death toll from last week's floods has risen to 25 and could increase further. There is growing concern

Around 318 migrants in distress at sea between Sicily and the coast of Libya were rescued by an Icelandic navy ship taking part in an EU

Scientists at Europe's particle physics research centre Cern yesterday restarted their "Big Bang" Large Hadron Collider (LHC), embarking

French investigators have ended their search for bodies in the Alps where a Germanwings passenger jet crashed last month, killing all

Six Ukrainian troops were killed in two separate incidents in the troubled separatist-held east yesterday as isolated clashes continue to

Three Ukrainian soldiers died when a mine exploded in the separatist-held east where isolated clashes continue to undermine a ceasefire

The second black box from the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps last week has been found after a nine-day search,