About 340 migrants are rescued and four bodies are pulled from the sea after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, Greek officials say. Others are thought to be missing from the boat which was found in international waters, 75 nautical miles south of the Greek island of Crete.

Turkey yesterday recalled its envoy to Germany and threatened consequences, in a furious reaction over the Bundestag's decision to

At least nine people ith lightning strikes which left several children in Paris and have been killed in floods that have wreaked havoc in

Humanitarian aid drops to besieged areas in Syria are not imminent and need regime approval, the United Nations said yesterday,

The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel has officially opened in Switzerland, after almost two decades of construction work. The 57km (35-mile) twin-bore Gotthard base tunnel will provide a high-speed rail link under the Swiss Alps between northern and southern Europe.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Muslims to reject contraception and have more children.

Seventeen people died when an unlicenced home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of yesterday.

The rescue of more than 600 migrants off Libya by a flotilla of EU ships takes the weekly total to at least 13,000, Italian authorities say.

The SWIFT secure messaging service that underpins international banking says it is planning to launch a new security programme as it fights to rebuild its reputation in the wake of the Bangladesh Bank heist.

Greece begins evacuating thousands of stranded migrants from the makeshift Idomeni camp on its northern border with Macedonia.

Prime Minister David Cameron has bought a £1,500 used car as a "cheap run-around" for his wife, according to the salesman he bought it from.

A pensioner who died in 2014 could have been behind a spate of sadistic killings in the 1970s and 1990s, German investigators say.

Combat sports are booming around the world but in France increasingly draw the attention of intelligence services hunting potential jihadists.

Police across France were to demonstrate yesterday against the "anti-cop hatred" they say they have endured during a wave of

Pope Francis criticised Western powers for trying to export their own brand of democracy to countries such as Iraq and Libya without respecting indigenous political cultures, according to an interview published on Monday.

World and regional powers working to end the Syrian conflict vowed to bolster the country's shaky ceasefire yesterday but failed to set a new date for peace talks.

The president of the European Council says the only alternative to the EU is "political chaos" and labelled Boris Johnson's recent comments "absurd".

Seventeen women who have served as ministers in France say they will no longer be silent about sexual harassment in politics.

A Bangladeshi-origin British man who plotted an Islamic State-inspired attack on US military personnel based in England has been jailed for life and told he will spend at least 12 years behind bars.

British Prime Minister David Cameron apologised to an imam on Thursday after wrongly branding him a supporter of the Islamic State jihadist group.