Heavy rain and strong winds have hit parts of the UK as the "remnants" of the storm that brought severe blizzards to the US arrives in the country.

The United Nations yesterday said that crucial talks on ending the Syria conflict would likely be delayed by a few days, as a dispute over who will represent the opposition intensified.

Amnesty International has urged Denmark's parliament to reject proposed changes to the country's laws on refugees that it says would "have a devastating impact on vulnerable people" and may violate international human rights laws.

France returns the head of a Hindu deity's statue from the 7th century more than 130 years after it was taken away in the name of research.

Women who carry an inherited fault in the BRIP1 gene are three times more likely to develop ovarian cancer than those without it, researchers say.

Muslim women who fail to learn English to a high enough standard could face deportation from Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron

The richest one percent of the world's population now own more than the rest of us combined, aid group Oxfam says, on the eve of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.

Turkish police yesterday detained over a dozen academics who signed a petition criticising the military crackdown in the Kurdish-dominated southeast that

A clinical trial of a new drug in France leaves one person brain-dead and another five people in hospital, the health minister says.

Belgian police have identified three safe houses used by key suspects including presumed ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud as they plotted the deadly Paris

Turkey yesterday said it had arrested one person in connection with a deadly suicide bombing that ripped through the historic heart of Istanbul, killing 10 tourists, most of them Germans.

Oscar-winning actor and director Roberto Benigni gave Pope Francis two thumbs up Tuesday, delivering one of his rapid-fire monologues and praising the pope as a fountain of mercy who is "dragging the whole church toward Christianity."

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and actress-model Jerry Hall announce their engagement in the Times.

A suspected member of the Islamic State (IS) group kills 10 people, at least nine of them German tourists, in a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish city of Istanbul, officials say.

Germany sends an increasing number of migrants back to Austria every day since the beginning of the month, Austrian police say.

Dozens of aid trucks headed yesterday to the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya, where more than two dozen people are reported to have starved to death.

German authorities said yesterday that nearly all the suspects in a rash of New Year's Eve violence against women in Cologne were "of foreign origin", as foreigners came under attack amid surging tensions.

Spain's Princess Cristina and her husband went on trial yesterday under intense global media scrutiny in a landmark corruption case that has outraged the country and sullied the monarchy's reputation.

President Vladimir Putin yesterday acknowledged in an interview with German daily Bild that Western economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis are affecting

Riot police break up far-right protesters in Cologne as they march against Germany's open-door migration policy after asylum seekers were identified as suspects in assaults on women on New Year's Eve.