Thousands of people in the US state of Colorado have been told to evacuate an area where flood waters have risen to dangerous levels. At least

The death sentences passed down in India on four men who raped, tortured and murdered a woman in Delhi last year have been welcomed by politicians

Chris Horner put himself on the verge of becoming the oldest Grand Tour winner after a fifth place finish on stage 19 of the Vuelta moved the

Despite the State of Emergency being extended in Egypt by another two months, several thousand Muslim Brotherhood protesters gathered after Friday

Five years ago, the unthinkable happened, a major US investment bank – Lehman Brothers – collapsed, triggering Western capitalism’s most serious

The photo became world famous – a photo suggesting what could have been: an historic moment. What a sight – on 13 September 1993 – when then Prime

Seven million Syrians, or one-third of the population, are either displaced within their own country or are refugees abroad, according to the latest

A sketch by the artist Joan Miro which disappeared a year and a half ago in Mallorca has been found – inside a box at a transport company. The

A 500-year-old notebook written in by Leonardo da Vinci has gone on display at a museum in Washington. The “Codex on the Flight of Birds” details

Illegally built villas along the Mediterranean coast in France are being demolished. The first to go down was the Santa Monica villa at Ramatuelle

Lawyers for the European Union have concluded that a tax on financial transactions that some countries want is illegal. According to the EU’s legal

A senior official from the company which operates the stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima in Japan has admitted that the situation there is

Twitter, the short messaging service that is becoming a global source of breaking news, instant analysis and celebrity tittle-tattle, is ready to

Despite diplomatic tensions over Syria easing in recent days, clashes have been continuing in the country with conventional weapons. Around the

With German elections just over a week away, a magazine photograph of Social Democrat leader, Peer Steinbrueck, making a rude gesture with his middle

The number of people in work in the eurozone continued to fall in the second quarter of this year. However the rate of decline slowed, adding to

The world’s largest moving mechanical dragon and Jyoti Amge, the world’s shortest woman, are among those in the latest Guinness World Records book.

Eurozone finance ministers are meeting in Lithuania as they try to strengthen Europe’s banking sector. The moves come as EU leaders have started to

The US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have agreed to meet again at the end of the month in New

We all have memories of school, good and bad. For the lucky ones school provides a solid foundation for individuals to go on and build successful and

The European Parliament decided to postpone a crucial vote on the Tobacco Directive scheduled for this week. Anti-tobacco activists say that it

The Biennale Contemporary Art show in Lyon, France, runs until the beginning of January. The city comes alive as a result of this cultural

The Russian government has launched a state investigation into a fire that killed 37 people at a psychiatric hospital in Luka, Novgorod. The

Spain’s government debt has hit a record high. Between April and June it rose to rose to 92.2 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, the

The British phone operator Vodafone has confirmed it has secured enough shares in German cable company Kabel Deutschland for its takeover offer to

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plan to meet again on or around September 28 for further talks on

Four men found guilty of fatally raping a young woman on a bus have been condemned to death by hanging. The brutal attack in Delhi last December

Taliban militants unleashed car bombs at the US Consulate in western Afghanistan on September 13th, triggering a firefight with security forces in an