Scottish and US investigators have identified two Libyan suspects believed to have been involved in the Lockerbie airline bombing almost 27 years ago which killed 270 people, Scottish prosecutors said. Pam Am flight 103 was blown up over the Scottish...
Volkswagen said today it would recall around 8.5 million diesel-engine cars in the European Union after Germany requested servicing of the vehicles following a scandal over rigged emissions tests. VW said that it would need to be determined outside the...
Torrential rain and storms battered southern and central Italy for a second day today, leading to the deaths of at least four people and reviving a controversy over environmental neglect in the country. The Aniene river near Rome burst its banks late...
Seven people, including a baby and three children, died after their wooden boat and a coast guard vessel collided during a migrant rescue operation off the island of Lesbos, the Greek coast guard said. The boat, which the coast guard said was old, sank...
Police in eastern Russia shot dead a brown bear which had found its way into a shopping mall. Security footage from the mall in Khabarovsk town shows the bear running around in corridors, trying to break through the doors, and eventually running...
Rugby is a rough sport... especially if you're 10 years old and up against the mayor of London. During a street rugby match against school children in Tokyo, Boris Johnson accidentally knocked over a boy named Toki. The floppy blond haired 51-year-old...
Oscar Pistorius will be released on parole onTuesday, about a year after he was sentenced to five years for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, authorities said. The department of correctional services said in a statement that Pistorius would be...
A top European Union official has pressed leaders of the 28 member states to live up to pledges to tackle the refugee emergency and said their credibility is at stake if they fail to act during today's summit meeting. European Commission president...
Opposition lawmakers in Kosovo released teargas in parliament today, the second such incident in a week in protest at a European Union-brokered accord with former master Serbia. The opposition is angry over a deal to grant ethnic Serb areas of Kosovo...
A mandatory recall of Volkswagen cars sold with software that enabled them to evade diesel emissions testing has been ordered by Germany's motor transport agency. The Federal Motor Transport Authority has rejected a Volkswagen proposal for a voluntary...
A man and woman in New York are facing manslaughter charges after allegedly beating their son to death in their church. Julie Noce reports.
Electric car maker Tesla Motors is leapfrogging competitors with a new autopilot system that lets cars change lanes by themselves. Like other semi-autonomous systems already available from Mercedes, Audi and Volvo, Tesla's system automatically keeps...
Demonstrators campaign outside the French Senate in Paris against a proposed amendment to a law on prostitution which would penalise clients. Diane Hodges reports.
A Texas man who was already being hunted for a neighbour's murder when he killed a Dallas police officer outside a club has been executed. Licho Escamilla was put to death for the November 2001 killing of Christopher Kevin James, who was trying to...
Pope Francis asked for forgiveness yesterday for scandals at the Vatican and in Rome, an apparent reference to two cases of priests and gay sex revealed this month during a major meeting of bishops. “Today... in the name of the Church, I ask you for...
A fall in support and a government row over the refugee crisis raised the heat on German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday, forcing allies to defend the integrity of her coalition. Germany, a favoured destination for migrants, expects 800,000 to a...
Aid to Yemen, facing a humanitarian crisis, is being slowed by a Saudi-led coalition which has warned commercial vessels to stay away from areas hit by fighting, a US Navy report said yesterday. The Arab coalition, fighting to end control of much of...
Israel began setting up roadblocks in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem and deploying soldiers across the country yesterday to stop a wave of Palestinian knife attacks. In the latest incident, a Palestinian stabbed and moderately wounded a...
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Islamic State militants battled rival insurgent groups yesterday north of the city of Aleppo, where officials say the Syrian army is preparing an offensive of its own backed by Iranian soldiers and Russian jets. A rebel fighter and a group monitoring...
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Photo: Reuters Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is presenting a tax-cutting 2016 budget today which pushes EU fiscal rules to the limit and is likely to be more popular with voters than with the European...
Hosting Nato’s top brass, Montenegro said yesterday it was optimistic of being invited to join the Western military alliance in December, over the objections of Russia. Ambassadors of Nato’s North Atlantic Council are meeting in Podgorica today in the...
Photo: Reuters People take part in a rally held by far-right radical groups, including All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda (Freedom) and Right Sector, to mark the Day of Defender of Ukraine, which coincides with the religious feast of Intercession of the Holy...
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Israel has started setting up roadblocks in Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and deploying soldiers in cities across the country to try to combat the worst surge of violence in months. Palestinian officials condemned the security measures -...
Outsourcing group Serco has apologised to the British government for the "inappropriate" use of a stretch limousine to transport asylum seekers from temporary accommodation near London to Manchester, 330 kilometres away. The luxury vehicle was used in...
A nurse who is being treated for a late complication of an Ebola infection is now "critically ill" after her condition "deteriorated", the hospital treating her has said. Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was admitted to the isolation unit at the Royal Free...
Former Polish prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski says migrants who have arrived recently in Europe are carrying diseases that could hurt the local populations. The words sparked a sharp rebuke from a left-wing politician, Janusz Palikot, who slammed Mr...
Russia has appealed to the International Civil Aviation Organisation to open a new probe into last year's downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine. The Dutch Safety Board said in its final report released on Tuesday that the Boeing...
Pope Francis is asking forgiveness for recent scandals that have hit Rome and the Vatican. The pope did not cite specific examples in his off-the-cuff request for pardon at the start of his general audience. But the past week has seen its fair share of...
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