German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposes changes to make it easier to deport asylum-seekers who commit crimes, after the New Year's Eve sex attacks on women in Cologne.

The head of Cologne's police force is leaving his post "to restore public trust in the police" following scores of attacks on women in the city on New Year's Eve, German media report.

Maushumi Rahman, counsellor (political) at Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad, reached Portugal yesterday to take up her new diplomatic assignment at the Bangladesh mission in Lisbon.

A majority of Britons who have made up their minds would vote to leave the European Union in a forthcoming referendum, making Britain by far the most reluctant member of the 28-nation bloc, an opinion poll published yesterday showed.

A man is shot dead by police as he tries to attack a police station on the first anniversary of the jihadist assault on Charlie Hebdo had a knife and what appeared to be an explosives vest, the government says.

A generous son who couldn't get his mother to accept his kidney for a life-saving operation tricks her into a transplant by pretending it is already for sale on eBay, reports UK based news portal Express.

Turkish police yesterday detained two IS suspects accused of plotting a suicide bomb attack on New Year's Eve celebrations in the capital Ankara. The arrests

They have crossed treacherous seas in unseaworthy boats, trampled through dark forests carrying their worldly possessions on their

France is opening up police and ministerial archives from the Vichy regime which collaborated with Nazi occupation forces in World War Two.

Two of Italy's largest cities, Milan and Rome, are restricting car use as smog levels build up. Milan is banning cars, motorcycles and scooters for six hours a day

When Vladimir Putin first came to power, he was asked in an interview which of his colleagues he trusted most. He named five people: Nikolai Patrushev, Sergei Ivanov, Dmitry Medvedev, Alexei Kudrin and Igor Sechin.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used his celebrated rhetorical skills to save a life on Friday, preventing a man from jumping off Istanbul's Bosphorus

A migrant from Senegal who travelled to Europe by boat has won a stake of some €400,000 (£294,000; $436,000) in Spain's Christmas lottery.

The Belgian authorities have charged a ninth person in connection with last month's Paris attacks which left 130 dead, the prosecutor's office said yesterday. A

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday hosted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a visit that could see the two countries agree a number of defence and energy deals worth billions of dollars.

French police have foiled a terror attack on police and army personnel in the region of Orleans, the interior minister has said.

European Union leaders have held no less than five emergency summits but still, they keep on coming: by the time this year ends, Europe would have received at least 1.2 million refugees.

Spain's political parties are facing a struggle to form a stable government after a historic election that broke the traditional two-party dominance.

Is life in the world's nicest country all it's made out to be? Most of those surveyed, mainly Norwegians, said yes. But, for balance, here are some aspects of Norwegian life that don't tick everyone's boxes.

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde was ordered yesterday to stand trial over her handling of a massive state payout to French tycoon Bernard Tapie when she was finance minister.