There has been a big rise in Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank, according to a report by the Israeli group Peace Now. The

In the biggest step yet towards the release of former opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian president has moved responsibility for a

The World Health Organisation has classed outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic, and says urban and industrial air pollutants cause lung cancer and

Switzerland coach Ottmar Hitzfeld announced on Thursday he will retire after next year’s World Cup finals in Brazil. The 64-year-old German is one

Newly appointed Croatia coach Niko Kovac said on Thursday his side have the talent to reach the World Cup finals in Brazil next year but have

Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, who died last week in Rome, made a video before his death defending his role in the 1944 massacre in Italy during

Bulgaria has unveiled plans to deal with the growing numbers of refugees that are approaching its borders from Turkey. Ministers are said to have

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has visited the Vatican for his first meeting with Pope Francis. The two leaders spoke for half an hour in the

An Azerbaijan citizen has pleaded not guilty to the murder of an ethnic Russian man. Orkhan Zeinalov was accused of fatally stabbing Yegor

A newly-restored statue of Saint Damian has been put back in place on Prague’s famous Charles Bridge. It is part of a work in progress to clean or

Hundreds of thousands of government employees have returned to work in the US after 16 days of enforced absence. Their return followed a

US President Barack Obama has hit out at the political turmoil that dragged his country to the brink of defaulting on its debt. He told a press

Action hero legends Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are teaming up in prison-break thriller “Escape Plan”. The two mega stars have

London’s Frieze art fair is open – and so is the race to buy some of the world’s leading works of contemporary art. They include large

Italy wants the EU to give more money to the bloc’s border control agency after some 300 migrants drowned off the coast of Lampedusa earlier this

A second conference on the Syria conflict has been arranged to take place in Geneva during the third week of November. This comes more than a year

A new index puts the number of people being held in slavery worldwide at 30 million. Anti-slavery charity, the Walk Free Foundation, ranked 162

Angela Merkel’s CDU-CSU and the centre-left SPD party have confirmed that they are going to enter into official negotiations, with an aim to forming

The following texts and multimedia elements are the product of a workshop of multimedia journalism at the European Youth Media Days that took place

The ninth edition of the Jungle Marathon Challenge in the northern Brazilian state of Para.

The Basilica Minore del Santo Nino in Cebu was a famous landmark until the Philippines earthquake hit. Its famous bell tower came crashing down on

A new coalition government in Germany has moved a step closer after the Social Democrats (SPD) agreed to start negotiations with Angela Merkel’s

Thousands of students have been protesting in Paris over the deportations of Kosovan Roma schoolgirl Leonarda Dibrani and college-goer Khatchik

The Spanish consumer appliance company Fagor filed for protection from creditors on Wednesday to allow it time to refinance its debt. The fifth

Britain’s most famous missing girl Madeleine McCann was the subject of a major investigation on German television on Wednesday night. ZDF was

Two convicted murderers have lost their bid to vote in UK elections. Peter Chester and George McGeoch had argued that EU law gave them the right to

Text messaging frequently during the day and in particular before bedtime can cause serious sleep disorders and even insomnia, according to research

Outdoor air pollution is a leading cause of cancer, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). It said the world’s leading experts have