Far-right Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache is determined Austria’s political mainstream will not be allowed to ignore his party’s gains

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has confirmed he will comply with UN chemical weapons accords. He was speaking in an interview with an Italian

Rui Costa became Portugal’s very first world road race champion after upsetting the favourites in a crash-riddled race in Florence. The elite men’s

Suicide bombers have struck in Iraq. At least 25 people are reported to have been killed in an explosion in a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Al Mussayab

A court in the northern Russian city of Murmansk has ordered another Greenpeace activist – the environmental organisation’s spokesman Dimitry

Two of France’s retail giants Leroy Merlin and Castorama defied a court order and opened for business on Sunday. The shops in Paris and some of the

The Lech Walesa prize, named after the Polish Nobel laureate has been awarded to Kremlin critic Mikhail Khordorkovsky. The award was collected by

An unmanned US commercial cargo ship has arrived at the International Space Station. The Orbital Sciences Cygnus freighter steered itself close to

Kenya’s Wilson Kipsang broke the world marathon record on Sunday when he stormed to victory in the Berlin Marathon. Ideal weather conditions

Chancellor Werner Faymann of the Social Democrats and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger of the People’s Party, leaders of Austria’s ruling

The deputy leader of Golden Dawn handed himself at police headquarters in Athens on Sunday. Christos Pappas had been sought along with five other MPs

Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano has said holding new elections is the last solution he wants to pursue ahead of a meeting with the prime

The Winter Olympics flame for Sochi 2014 was lit in Greece’s Temple of Hera, in ancient Olympia on Sunday. An actress playing the high priestess

A bomb has killed 31 people in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, with at least seventy wounded. The blast comes in the wake of another attack a week

The Judo Grand Prix in Almaty Kazakhstan got underway on Saturday. Russia’s Kristina Rumyantseva won the under 48 kilo class with victory over

Austrians headed to the polls on Sunday to decide the country’s parliamentary elections. An incumbent coalition between the social democrat and

Venezuela’s “Bad Hair” has won the top prize at the San Sebastian film festival in northern Spain. The director Mariana Rondón collected the 61st

US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson has accepted a request by Colombia’s FARC rebels to oversee the release of a former US marine they kidnapped

All 3,000 residents of the German town of Harthausen were forced to leave their homes on Saturday after a gas explosion at an industrial site. At

US President Barack Obama’s healthcare package for all is facing another mountain to climb, after the the US House of Representatives approved a

At least four people have been killed and several others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Mali on Saturday. It is the first assault since

Austrians are voting in parliamentary elections on Sunday. Polls are open from 6am until 5pm. The country has the EU’s lowest unemployment rate and

Miss Philippines has been crowned Miss World on the Indonesian island of Bali. Security has been tight during the pageant in response to protests