The number of migrants who have reached Italy by boat from North Africa this year has already topped a previous record set two years ago, official...
Former prime minister Francois Fillon has won the second round of the conservative primary race for next year’s presidential election in France after rival Alain Juppe...
Six are now dead from a rare “thunderstorm asthma” outbreak in Melbourne, Australia.Five more remain in intensive care units, with three in critical condition, and another...
A plane from Somalia landed on its belly and veered off the runway at Nairobi’s international airport on Sunday, causing no casualties but prompting the authorities...
Italian authorities are investigating an explosion outside the Bologna station of the Carabinieri national police that damaged the building overnight, but caused no injuries. News agency...
A refugee shelter in the town of Himberg, not far from Vienna, was pelted with beer bottles filled with flammable liquid, Austrian police spokesman, Johann Baumschlager,...
The Ugandan authorities said on Sunday 41 tribal insurgents and 14 police officers were killed in clashes in the west of the country, and the tribal...
Preliminary results of a referendum in Switzerland indicate that the suggested timetable for phase-out of its nuclear power plants has been rejected by voters 55 to...
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker hopes Italians will not reject reforms sponsored by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi when they vote in a referendum over changing the...
Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly...
