Britain’s leadership contest entered its finale yesterday with the favourite Boris Johnson facing more defections from ministers over his Brexit plan. The month-long contest between former London mayor Johnson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is being decided by fewer than

Britain denounces Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf as a "hostile act" and rejects Tehran's explanation that it seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident.

Germany yesterday paid tribute to Claus von Stauffenberg and others who sought to assassinate Adolf Hitler 75 years ago, a plot that

London’s Metropolitan Police yesterday apologised after its Twitter, emails and news pages were targeted by hackers and began pumping

Forensic experts extract bones from two ossuaries within the walls of the Vatican as part of an investigation aimed at resolving the case of a girl who vanished in 1983.

The detained British-flagged tanker Stena Impero was in an accident with an Iranian fishing boat and ignored its distress call, Iran's Fars news agency reports, quoting an official.

A strong and shallow 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolts Athens, knocking out phone connections, collapsing a couple of abandoned buildings and causing power outages, as worried residents rushed into the streets.

As a spat between Britain and US President Donald Trump rumbles on, newly declassified cables reveal that stark diplomatic assessments of White House chaos, presidential controversy and the “special relationship” are nothing new.

HIV-related deaths last year fell to around 770,000 -- some 33 percent lower than in 2010 -- the United Nations said yesterday, but

Europe’s Galileosatellite position system, a future rival of the American GPS network, has been out of service since Friday, its oversight

Commercial baby foods often contain too much sugar and display confusing ingredient lists, according to a UN report that proposed new

Four children took a stolen four-wheel drive on a 1,000-kilometre (620-mile) road trip across the Australian outback before being

A total of 141 migrants from the sub-Sahara region were rescued at sea Saturday between Spain and Morocco, from a variety of

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday announced the creation of a new national military space force command that would

British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt sought to ease tensions with Iran on Saturday, saying a tanker held by Gibraltar would be released

A power outage that gripped New York’s Manhattan ended on Saturday after it plunged Broadway theaters into darkness, brought subways to a halt

Turkey ignored US warnings as it continued yesterday to take delivery of Russia’s S-400 missile defence system near Ankara, a defence

Dozens of New Zealanders handed in their firearms yesterday as a gun buyback scheme went into operation aimed at ridding the country

Senior British politicians, including both contenders to be the next prime minister, joined journalists yesterday in criticising police for

Gibraltar police have said that all four crew members of the Iranian Grace 1 tanker have been released on bail without charge after it was detained last week on suspicion of breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Syria.