Pope Francis has begun his first Easter as pontiff and as part of the celebrations, he travelled to Casa del Marmo, a youth prison on the outskirts

The leader of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party, Pier Luigi Bersani has admitted defeat in trying to form a government, and has told the country’s

The United Nations has expressed concern over reports that up to 600 Syrian refugees were thrown out of a relief camp in Turkey and

Italy’s centre-left leader Pierluigi Bersani has failed in a last-ditch attempt to form a coalition government to rule the country. Bersani, whose

March 27 marked a milestone for the world’s most famous little blue pill. It is 15 years since the landmark drug Viagra was approved for

British police say foul play cannot be completely ruled out in the death of Russian magnate Boris Berezovsky, but believe suicide was most likely the

The United States and Japan are leading an economic rebound according to the latest forecast from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and

French authorities are investigating death threats made against Jean Michel Gentil, a judge who put former president Nicolas Sarkozy under formal

Finland’s new passport has become a hit on the Internet due to a quirky security feature. When flicking through it, a moose appears to walk across

The death rate of elderly people evacuated from old people’s facilities around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has tripled, according to

At least seven people, including a police officer, have died, after a casino popular with tourists was attacked in Malindi on Kenya’s Indian Ocean

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Get soldiers to action stations but keep the border factories running. These are North Korea’s priorities as the Stalinist state threatens to launch

Crowds, not queues outside Cypriot banks today, but while they may be open again, it’s far from business as usual. There was a limit on how much

Even as the Bank of Japan’s new governor Haruhiko Kuroda is set to aggressively pump cash into the economy to revive it, he has warned that the

For the last two years Fukushima has been a strictly no-go area, but not any more. Google Street View has published the first video images of the

Ahead of the re-opening of Cypriot banks on March 28, the Central Bank of Cyprus sent private security vans packed with cash to stock them up. The

At least 12 people have been killed in a bombing at Damascus University. Two Syrian pro-government stations are blaming rebels for the deaths of

The highly anticipated third season of Game of Thrones starts on Sunday, March 31. As fans all around the world struggle to contain their

A new exhibition of items from Pompeii and Herculaneum has opened at the British Museum in London. The two cities, on the Bay of Naples in southern

As part of China Fashion Week, a home-grown makeup and styling show has been held in Beijing and the designs on display were eye-catching, if not