Germany recorded its warmest year in 2018, a period also marked by a drought lasting months, the country's DWD weather service said

The 500-year-old wounds of the Spanish conquest have been ripped open afresh with Mexico's president urging Spain and the Vatican to apologise for their "abuses" -- a request Madrid said it "firmly rejects".

Britain's parliament sought a new Brexit approach yesterday after seizing the initiative from Prime Minister Theresa May in a historic vote taken to stave off a looming "no-deal" divorce.

Two Russian military planes delivered troops and equipment to Venezuela over the weekend, Russian state news agency Sputnik reported

Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday battled to keep control of Britain's exit from the European Union as some in her party called on her to quit and parliament plotted to wrest Brexit away from the government.

New Zealand will hold a national remembrance service for victims of the Christchurch massacre on March 29, the government

The United Kingdom's exit from the European Union was in disarray yesterday as Prime Minister Theresa May faced a possible plot by

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of "racially aggravated criminal damage" after windows at five mosques in Britain's second city Birmingham were smashed earlier this week, police said Friday.

Thousands of people opposed to Britain's withdrawal from the European Union marched through central London yesterday to demand a new referendum as the deepening Brexit crisis risked sinking Prime Minister Theresa May's premiership.

A Turkish-born suspect has confessed to terrorist charges over a shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht which killed three people, prosecutors said yesterday.

After EU leaders approved a reset of the Brexit timetable, Britain is left with four possible courses ahead of an all-important parliamentary vote on the divorce deal next week. Here is how the Brexit endgame could play out:

A bus full of schoolchildren was hijacked and set on fire by its own driver on Wednesday in an apparent protest against migrant drownings in the Mediterranean, Italian authorities said.

Dutch prosecutors are to charge the suspect in a gun attack in a packed Utrecht tram with "terrorist" killings, saying he will appear for the first time before a judge today.

Dutch anti-immigration populists stunned Prime Minister Mark Rutte to become the joint biggest party in the senate yesterday following

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday warned Prime Minister Theresa May that Britain would face a disorderly departure from the European Union if she fails to get parliamentary approval for her deal on the third attempt next week.

Four mosques in the central English city of Birmingham have been attacked overnight, with a man wielding a sledgehammer seen smashing windows at two places of worship, the police say.

Finland ranked as the world's happiest country for the second year running while war-torn South Sudan sank to the least contented in a United Nations report released yesterday.

Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday requested a three-month delay to Brexit after her failure to get a deal ratified by parliament left the United Kingdom's divorce from the European Union in turmoil.

Britain will write to the EU to seek a short delay to Brexit, but Brussels has warned any decision may only come next week -- just before the scheduled departure date.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May's government has been plunged into constitutional chaos after the Speaker blocked the prime minister from asking MPs to vote on her Brexit deal for a third time unless it had fundamentally changed.