2013-11-16

Saturday was another day of clashes between rival militias in Libya which left at least one dead and a dozen wounded on top of the more than 40

Britain’s prime minister has left the Commonwealth Summit in Sri Lanka with a warning to the country’s leaders. While backing the country’s move to

Germany’s World Cup ambitions have received a potential blow with the news that Sami Khedira could miss Brazil 2014 due to injury. The Real Madrid

The EU has concluded its big summit with the authorities in Myanmar, a country throwing off dictatorship and coming in from the cold of international

Cricket’s most prolific run-scorer Sachin Tendulkar is to receive India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna award. The announcement came just

The Russian trolley bus marked its 80th birthday on Saturday with a parade in Moscow. The display of retro buses dating back to the 1950s attracted

A suicide car-bomber has managed to explode his vehicle 100 metres from the tent in Kabul where next week Afghanistan’s Loya Jurga, or national

The retrial of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, his sons and closest associates reopened on Saturday. Mubarak’s lawyer claims his period of

It represents quite a comeback for Chile’s former president Michelle Bachelet. Opinion polls are only uncertain about whether or not she will win

Albania announced on Friday night that it had rejected a U.S. request to host the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons. This is seen as a major

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister has announced he is leaving Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right faction. Angelino Alfano will form a new party that will

Two turtles kept in captivity for over thirty years, spending the last two at the Lisbon ‘Oceanario’ were released to sea, off of the Desert Islands

From next spring Fiat will launch a very unique special edition version of the 500 in the US, a model inspired by the original Cinquecento from 1957

A sense of hope was returning to Tacloban on Saturday, eight days after Typhoon Haiyan hit The Phillipines killing thousands. Logistics are

A helicopter has crashed into a luxury high-rise apartment block in South Korea’s capital Seoul, killing two pilots. It hit several apartments near

Nigerian terror group Boko Haram has confirmed it was behind the kidnapping of a French priest in Cameroon. Georges Vandenbeusch was abducted on

Roman Zozulya and Andriy Yarmolenko were both on target as Ukraine put one foot in the World Cup finals with a 2-0 victory over France in the first

Dressed in a Batman costume, a 5-year-old boy recovering from leukaemia had his dream come true to be his favourite superhero. He fulfilled his

The leader of Equatorial Guinea’s opposition in exile has accused the Spanish Football Federation of taking 15 million euros in return for playing a

Emergency teams of cleaners, escorted by police officers, will begin cleaning the streets of Madrid on Saturday after talks to end a strike

There have been protests around the world against the detention of a group of Greenpeace activists by Russia after they protested against drilling in

As part of moves to tighten security for the the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree introducing

After days of protest, demonstrators had left the Albanian prime minister in no doubt as to how they felt about a US request for the country to