Hundreds of African immigrants have managed to evade border security between Morocco and Spanish territory, arriving in the two enclaves of Melilla

Wayne Rooney scored a brace to reach the 200 goal mark for Man United while Robin Van Persie and Antonio Valencia added their names to the scoresheet

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called off plans for a state visit to Washington in October because of revelations that the United States

Conditions in North Korea’s prison camps have been compared to those discovered in Nazi jails after the Second World War in a new UN report. The

Barcelona begin their bid for a fifth Champions League title on Wednesday night when they host fellow four time winners Ajax at the Camp Nou in group

A car bomb has exploded at a border crossing between Syria and Turkey. It happened on the Syrian side at the Bab al-Hawa crossing, killing at least

A review has been ordered of physical security at all US Navy and Marine Corps installations after Monday’s mass shooting at a base in Washington

The British and Irish Lions centre Manu Tuilagi has been forced to apologise for making a “bunny ears“gesture behind the British prime minister

The disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has begun unpaid work as an economic adviser to Serbia. He says he has no “magic wand” to fix

Britain’s Prince Harry has begun training for a South Pole expedition in two months. He will join disabled British veterans in a 300-kilometre

One of Silvio Berlusconi’s companies, Fininvest, has been ordered to pay more than 500 million euros in damages over the disputed purchase of

The UN’s refugee agency the UNHCR has recognised the work of Sister Angélique Namaika in the Democratic Republic of Congo by naming her the recipient

Just days before Greece’s international creditors begin their latest assessment of the country’s progress on economic reforms, the Greek Prime

The EU says it wants to get tougher on “designer drugs”, the legal substances that mimic the highs of banned narcotics such as cocaine or

Angela Merkel’s conservatives are still well ahead in the latest opinion polls but her coalition appears increasingly threatened. A survey by Forsa

‘Angie’: on the campaign trail, she’s happy to use her nickname. It’s a warm connector with Germans of all walks of life and ages. She’s always on

The hunt for the bodies of two missing passengers who died when the Costa Concordia capsized is to begin, now that the cruise ship has been

Yes, the rich really are getting get richer. The latest calculations of the wealthiest Americans showed that those at the top of the list are

An elderly Chinese woman slipped while walking along a riverbank recently – and slid into the muddy bog below. Unable to get out, the 60-year-old was

The artistic director of Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet has returned to work eight months after an acid attack that nearly blinded him. Sergei Filin met

It’s an example of a midweek training ground experiment coming together perfectly on match day. The plan was simple: eight outfield players for

Amateur video posted on a social media website and said to be shot on Monday showing the apparent shooting down of a Syrian government helicopter by Turkish forces.

Police in Austria have surrounded a farm building where a gunman has barricaded himself in. Reports now say earlier he shot dead four people: three

European car buyers took a holiday in August. The number of vehicles sold down by five percent. The Association of European Carmakers said sales

In Iran, internet users had direct access to social networks for the first time in four years. But it was a brief experience with the blocks restored

Russia and France are split over who was behind the chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital Damascus last month. It comes after the UN issued

With Arab world conflicts so often making headlines, the terms Shia and Sunni – the two main branches of Islam – are now familiar to many non-Muslims

Financial analysts and the British government have been toasting the success of the part re-privatisation of Lloyds Banking Group. The first sale