Dramatic pictures from a US coastguard helicopter show one of the 16 crew of the replica HMS Bounty being winched to safety from the stormy Atlantic

Ukraine’s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has gone on hunger strike for the second time in months. The 51-year-old is protesting what she

In New York, it is quite literally, the calm before the storm as an eerie, deserted atmosphere descends over a city preparing for Hurricane Sandy

The pictures of huge waves crashing onto the shoreline are a constant warning to millions of Americans on the eastern seaboard. They await the impact

Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich’s ruling party looked set to secure a parliamentary majority on Monday, despite international monitors

Russia won their first world team championship title on Monday after they beat Japan in a tense final in Salvador de Bahia Brazil. It was the 2010

UBS has bucked the trend downwards on the European markets, bolstered by rumours it is about to massively restructure. Shares in Switzerland’s

French President François Hollande has been meeting with the heads of the World Bank, IMF, and other top economic bodies at the OECD headquarters in

A European team monitoring Ukraine’s parliamentary election says the ballot has “reversed democracy”. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation

Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy and his Italian counterpart Mario Monti have pledged renewed support for Greece with a commitment to do all

Bertelsmann and Pearson are to merge their books operations Random House and Penguin to create a new publishing giant and make significant economies

Protests to mark the 89th anniversary of the founding of modern Turkey have turned violent. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the

Sicily’s regional elections show voter apathy. Turnout on Sunday was just 47.4 percent, down from 66.7 in 2008. With a quarter of the votes

Dutch Labour party leader Diederik Samsom has agreed to form a coalition with current prime minister Mark Rutte, whose Liberal Party was the biggest

Ukraine’s ruling party says it has won the country’s parliamentary election. Officials said President Viktor Yanukovich’s Party of Regions picked

Spanish retail sales suffered their worst drop on record in September, plunging by nearly eleven percent. It was the 27th consecutive monthly

Random Penguin might sound like some unlistenable 70s rock band, but the publishing house created by Pearson’s book unit merging with Bertelsmann’s

Honda has issued a profits warning cutting its full-year figures by one-fifth following a popular backlash against Japanese goods in China. It

A European team monitoring Ukraine’s election on Sunday says the country has taken “a step backwards” compared with the 2010 presidential vote. The

A research team from San Francisco has designed a prototype for a gyro-stabilised electric motorcycle. Lit Motors, have blended design elements from

Two crew members from the replica of the Tall Ship HMS Bounty are still missing after the vessel was abandoned off America’s east coast.   As

The film “The Sapphires”, sees Chris O’Dowd form a Aboriginal girl group that performs for American troops fighting in the Vietnam War in the 1960’s

Toronto hosts Six Weeks of Iranian Art. The festival showcases the work of some 150 contemporary artists. The exhibits range from painting to

Violence has again marred the last day of what is supposed to be a four-day ceasefire in Syria. At least 10 people have been killed by a car bomb

Ukraine’s parliamentary election on Sunday was marred by the ruling Party of the Regions using state resources and facilities for campaigning and by

People who are against the expansion of a chemical plant in China, say they are wary despite Sunday’s announcement that the plan would be shelved

When it comes to the subject of death and dying, many of us prefer not to talk about it. And that is also the case in terms of making preparations

While the European Union now has a new law to simplify and cut the costs of cross-border inheritance procedures, the thorny issue of tax on

As Hurricane Sandy picks up strength before it is expected to hit the east coast of the United States on Monday night, the weather is also causing