Suspected extremists being investigated in Italy over links to al-Qaeda may have been planning an attack on the Vatican in 2010, prosecutors say.

At least 14 migrants are killed after being hit by a train on a well-trodden route across Macedonia to Western Europe, police say.

The Armenian Church yesterday conferred sainthood on some 1.5 million Armenians massacred by Ottoman forces a century ago, in what is believed to be the biggest canonisation service in history.

The Queen presents her husband with his Australian knighthood in a ceremony at Windsor Castle.

EU leaders are due to hold an emergency summit on ways to stem the number of migrants risking the perilous journey across the Mediterranean.

Top Russian officials yesterday accused the United States of seeking political and military dominance in the world and sought to put blame on the West for international security crises, including the conflict in east Ukraine. Evoking Cold War-style rhetoric, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said a drive by the United States and its allies to bring Kiev closer to the West was a threat to Moscow and had forced it to react.

More than 40 people have drowned off Sicily as Italy calls for more help from the EU to handle the surge in migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views has been shot dead in the capital Kiev.

Russia's decision to supply Iran with the S-300 missile air defence system was seen by critics in Israel and the United States as proof

British police have arrested six people on suspicion of terrorism after Turkish authorities stopped a group crossing the Syrian border,

All Luciano Faggiano wanted, when he purchased a seemingly unremarkable building at 56 Via Ascanio Grandi, to open a trattoria -- a

A Germanwings flight bound for Italy from Germany is evacuated late on Sunday due to a bomb threat, the airline said.

Hundreds of thousands of people joins peaceful demonstrations across Brazil against government corruption.

Pope Francis yesterday uttered the word "genocide" to describe the mass murder of Armenians 100 years ago, sparking fury from Turkey which slammed the term as "far from historical reality". In a solemn mass in Saint Peter's Basilica to mark the centenary of the Ottoman killings of Armenians, Francis said the murders were "widely considered 'the first genocide of the 20th century'," quoting a statement signed by Pope John Paul II and the Armenian patriarch in 2001.

An extremely premature Polish infant weighing just 820 grammes (1.8 pounds) becomes the world's smallest and youngest patient to escape death thanks to an artificial kidney, according to the doctor who oversaw the treatment.

Labour will draw with the Conservatives for the number of votes received at next month's general election, according to a new poll.

Germany plans to bring 100 mothballed tanks back into service in what is widely seen as a response to rising tensions with Russia over Ukraine.

Britain and Argentina's longstanding dispute over the Falklands escalated yesterday as Buenos Aires took legal action against

Hundreds of flights were cancelled and delays reported at airports around France yesterday as a strike by air traffic controllers entered

An armed man facing bankruptcy yesterday shot dead a judge and lawyer in a Milan court and wounded two other people before