A major rescue operation had to be mounted in London on Thursday night after part of the ceiling and a balcony collapsed at London’s Apollo Theatre

In a surprise move, Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is to pardon his political arch-enemy, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who has been imprisoned for

The last prime minister of ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak has been cleared of corruption charges in absentia, paving the way for his return

Just hours after the European Union agreed a plan for winding down and closing failing banks, the finance ministers of France and Germany had to

Portugal’s national football team has announced the location of its World Cup base for the 2014 tournament in Brazil. The squad will stay in a

Several people are reported injured after part of a balcony collapsed in central London’s Apollo Theatre on Thursday evening. A major rescue

The European summit is underway in Brussels with tighter defence co-operation on the agenda as well as a tighter harnessing of the eurozone’s

Istanbul’s police chief has become the latest senior Turkish officer to be removed from their post, after an anti-corruption inquiry struck at the

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has spoken in public for the first time since striking a number of economic deals with Moscow. He defended

The age of 50s clunkers choking Cuba’s roads may be over, after state media announced restrictions on buying foreign-made cars are being eased

Paris is at its glittering best for the Christmas holiday season, but traders are predicting dire sales and shoppers are admitting they are not

The EU summit brought hundreds of protesters onto the streets of Brussels over a variety of causes – from austerity to food production and military

It was meant to be a tribute to one of the most inspiring figures of the 20th century. A merchant from India paid for a roadside billboard – one of

He was a butcher and an art collector during Communist rule in Hungary – By day, Istvan Kövesi ran a kosher meat shop in Budapest, but his secret

A new album or rare recordings by the Beatles from 1963 has been released. The 59 tracks were made public to stop them falling out of copyright

Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone are back in the ring – but this time it’s just for laughs, in the boxing comedy ‘Grudge Match’. The film

Two years ago Oscar-winning film-maker Kevin MacDonald released ‘Life in a Day’. Buoyed by that success, he is now presenting ‘Christmas in a

The European Union has launched a case against Brazil at the World Trade Organisation over import taxes – covering everything from cars to

British railway workers are being sprayed with urine and faeces, it’s been claimed. The RMT transport union said some sections of the country’s

There are growing fears of civil war in South Sudan, with fresh clashes in a conflict that is deepening ethnic tensions in the world’s newest

An Italian man has set himself on fire inside the grounds of the Vatican, on St Peter’s Square. The 52-year-old has since been taken to hospital

Israel is set to resume flights to Turkey after a stoppage of more than 5 years. Israeli airlines initially halted travel to the country after

“I’m just going over there to do a basketball game and have some fun,” retired US basketball star Dennis Rodman said ahead of his third trip to North

The last European summit of the year has got underway in Brussels, with the agenda dominated by defence and moves towards a banking union

An artist is making a name for himself by injecting some festive fun into classic works of art. American Ed Wheeler, dressed as Santa, has been

Cubans are free to buy new cars for the first time since the 1959 revolution, its communist government has announced. It’s the latest in a series

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he will soon pardon jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The former Yukos oil company chief

European shares have rallied in response to the Federal Reserve sugar-coating its decision to start winding down its crisis-era stimulus

Two men have been found guilty of murdering British soldier Lee Rigby in a gruesome case that horrified the nation. Michael Adebolajo, 29, and