At least 42 pensioners on a day trip are killed after their bus collided with a truck and burst into flames in south-western France.

Women and children at a migrant camp outside the French port city of Calais are to be given heated tents by the end of the week, officials say.

Violent storms and flooding have hit south-eastern France, killing at least 16 people with three more missing, officials say.

Former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson will manage a Great Britain and Ireland XI captained by David Beckham in a charity match.

US President Barack Obama has said defeating Islamic State in Syria would only be possible if President Bashar al-Assad stepped down.

New Zealand unveiled plans to create a South Pacific marine sanctuary the size of France, saying it would protect one of the world's most pristine ocean environments.

France claims to have carried out its first air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria following nearly three weeks of surveillance flights.

The foreign ministers of France and Germany arrive in Dhaka on a three-day visit to show solidarity with Bangladesh, which is heavily threatened by climate change.

The flow of migrants through the Balkans picks up again with thousands entering Croatia, and the number doubling in a day for Germany.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in a 4-0 thrashing of 10-man Shakhtar Donetsk while Manchester United was beaten by PSV.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow evening to brief the Bangladeshi leaderships on the deal signed between Iran and global superpowers recently.

The price of international food commodities registered their largest monthly drop in seven years in August, the UN food agency said on Thursday.

David Cameron will set out details of government plans to resettle more refugees from Syria, as France says it will take 24,000.

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

Manchester United boss "killed" the Argentine winger during his time at Old Trafford according to Former PSG star Edouard Cisse.

Thousands of migrants are arriving in mainland Greece as the government prepares for talks on tackling the huge number of people reaching its shores.

An attempted attack by a heavily armed man on a train in France last week was premeditated and well prepared, according to a French prosecutor.

Ayoub El Khazzani is said to have told investigators he is "dumbfounded" by accusations he was intending to carry out a terror attack, and insists he was only trying to rob passengers.

Authorities interrogate a suspected jihadist gunman who was overpowered by passengers on a packed Amsterdam-Paris train, as officials say he had visited Syria and was known to intelligence services

Three American men are being hailed as heroes for overpowering a heavily-armed gunman on a train in northern France.