Starting their investigation into Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a four-man UN panel has met Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He

The US Federal Reserve has announced it is to buy up longer-term government debt in an effort to support the sputtering economic recovery. It will

Natural disasters have blanketed the world’s news media in recent weeks, with their incalculable impact on the people in several countries. In

The death toll in China’s deadliest landslide in decades has soared to more than 700. Rescuers continue to dig for survivors — some of them with

Ramadan is different in Gaza this year. The partial relaxation of the Israeli blockade means shops and markets are full of special items for the

Two of the companies that previously said they were thinking of taking a majority stake in troubled South Korean carmaker Ssangyong have pulled out

Weather forecasters said on Tuesday that the deadly heatwave that sparked wildfires around Moscow will go on for at least ten more days. The daily

Europe’s second-biggest utility company, GDF Suez, is set to take control of its smaller British rival International Power. The two restarted talks

Here are a few extra excerpts from our interview with conductor Riccardo Muti and with mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman.

Ninety years old this year it may be, but the Salzburg Festival remains as fit as a fiddle. Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice is among the operas

Euro Disney’s shares rose after it announced sales in its latest quarter were up by 21 percent to 373 million euros. That figure was however

TUI Travel, Europe’s biggest travel firm, has said that it is likely that its full-year profit will be at the lower end of expectations. Bookings

Japan has offered another apology to South Korea for the suffering inflicted during its colonisation of the Korean peninsula up to the end of World

The United Nations is to launch an emergency response plan for Pakistan and an appeal for hundreds of millions of euros. Catastrophic floods have

Rescue efforts in Pakistan are hampered not only by continuing rainstorms, inaccessible terrain, destroyed infrastructure and limited resources, but

Nine years into the conflict, the latest figures show the risks to ordinary people in Afghanistan are greater than ever. Six-monthly figures from

The floods in Pakistan, triggered by unusually heavy monsoon rain over the upper Indus river basin, have ploughed a swathe of destruction more than

The human rights credentials of the Obama presidency are under scrutiny today with the trial in Guantanamo of a Canadian-born detainee. Omar Khadr

In Rwanda, all the indications are that President Paul Kagame has won a second seven-year term in office. Initial results suggest it is a

At least 702 people are now known to have died following the massive mudslide in north-west China.   The desperate search for almost a thousand

Colombia’s new president Juan Manuel Santos and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez meet in Bogota today as the Andean neighbours seek to put

Authorities evacuated thousand of Pakistanis living in the flooded area of the country.

Aid workers try to provide shelter, food and water, and medical treatment in Pakistan.

Heavy rains have raised water levels in the area where Germany, Poland and the Czech-Republic border each other.

Soldiers and aid workers are struggling to reach at least a million people cut off by landslides caused by in Pakistan’s devastating floods. But

It seems like a never-ending battle. No sooner have firefighters put out some of the flames ravaging Russia, then fresh blazes break out. As

Nearly nine years after the September 11 attacks, German police have closed down a mosque once frequented by some of the hijackers. Authorities

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has unveiled video footage that he says backs up his theory that Israel killed former Lebanese primier, Rafik

Rwanda’s incumbent president Paul Kagame is set for another seven-year term according to preliminary results in the country’s presidential