The bodies of 23 people were recovered from the Mediterranean on Friday after the dinghy they were travelling in sank,

Rescuers pulled 700 boat migrants to safety in the Mediterranean and found 23 bodies during one operation on Friday, an Italian coastguard spokesman says, the second loss of multiple lives recorded in the area so far.

Australia's government-built $36 billion broadband network, already under attack from underwhelmed customers, has

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she would offer to take 150 refugees held by Australia when she meets

A Spanish judge issued an EU arrest warrant for Catalonia's deposed separatist leader yesterday after he failed to appear for questioning over the region's independence drive, a court statement said.

A judge in Madrid yesterday ordered ministers of Catalonia's deposed government to be held in jail pending further probes into their

A decade of slow progress towards better parity between the sexes has screeched to a halt, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said

Russia yesterday dismissed a report by a UN-led panel that blamed the Syrian regime for a sarin attack on the town of Khan Sheikhun

The Islamic State group executed 741 civilians in the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, the UN said yesterday, accusing the jihadists of

British Prime Minister Theresa May was forced to appoint a new defence minister yesterday after her ally Michael Fallon quit in a sexual

The number of people seeking refuge in Germany has more than doubled in the last two years to 1.6 million, with most fleeing Syria,

Eight members of the Turkish security forces were killed in clashes with Kurdish militants yesterday in Turkey's restive southeast, the

British and EU negotiators are due to resume Brexit talks in Brussels on November 9, London's Brexit ministry said yesterday,

Catalonia's sacked separatist leader yesterday looked to have thrown down the gauntlet in his tussle with the

Catalonia's ousted leader Carles Puigdemont yesterday accepted the snap election called by Spain's central government when it took

There is a "catastrophic" gap between national pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the actions needed to cap global

German police yesterday arrested a Syrian man suspected of preparing a terror attack using powerful explosives, prosecutors said,

The United Nations names a new interim UN resident coordinator for Myanmar on Tuesday, appointing Knut Ostby of Norway to take over the humanitarian role at a time of growing strains with the Myanmar government over the handling of the Rohingya crisis.

Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg called North Korea a "global threat" yesterday and said he backed tighter sanctions against it during a visit

The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere grew at record rate in 2016 to a level not seen for millions of years, potentially