Some 300 wild mammal species in Asia, Africa and Latin America are being driven to extinction by humanity's

Ecuador said Tuesday it had cut the internet access of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is holed up at its

A pause in Russian and Syrian strikes on Aleppo held into a second day yesterday, ahead of a brief ceasefire aimed

Moscow yesterday announced that Russian and Syrian air forces have stopped bombing Aleppo ahead of a brief truce, a move the Kremlin said showed "goodwill" as it faces mounting criticism for backing a brutal regime offensive.

WikiLeaks on Monday claimed Ecuador cut the internet connection of its founder Julian Assange, who is staying at the

A 72-hour ceasefire in Yemen is due to start tonight, the UN envoy for Yemen said on Monday after he received

The Swedish Academy says it has given up trying to reach Bob Dylan, days after it awarded him the Nobel Prize for

Many of the 410 asylum seekers held on a tiny Pacific Island are being driven to attempt suicide to escape the

Pope Francis proclaimed seven new saints yesterday, including Argentina's "gaucho priest" who served as an inspiration

Turkish-backed rebels captured the emblematic northern Syrian town of Dabiq from the Islamic State group yesterday, dealing a major symbolic blow to the jihadists.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday approved a law ratifying Moscow's deal with Syria to deploy its forces in the country

A boom of interest in cricket in Germany, fuelled by the influx of asylum seekers from Pakistan and Afghanistan, is a tale poised to hit the silver screen.

Russia has completed the delivery of S-300 air defence missile systems to Iran, RIA news agency quoted Russia's

Russia yesterday said it was prepared to secure safe passage for rebels to quit Syria's Aleppo but kept up air strikes

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon raised the prospect of a second independence referendum being held by 2019 as she

German federal police have evacuated and sealed off a train station in the town of Rastatt in south-west Germany after receiving a bomb

One girl under 15 is married every seven seconds, according to a report by Save the Children released yesterday, with girls as young as 10 married off - often to much older men - in countries including Afghanistan, Yemen, India and Somalia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul yesterday, pushing forward

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned yesterday that the world had reached a "dangerous point" as

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday he had detected increasing US hostility towards Moscow and