Video website YouTube has been blocked in Turkey because of a recording described by the prime minister as “villainous”. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was

“For an education with future, to fight is not a crime,” screamed a banner carried by students in Madrid – one of 70 such protests nationwide on

It is one of the perks of being President of the United States. Barack Obama was treated to a private guided tour of the Colosseum at the end of a

With just a sextant, compass and a six-metre beach catamaran Swiss yachtsman Yvan Bourgnon completed the seventh stage of his solo around the world

European football’s governing body Uefa on Thursday announced it will introduce a new competition for the continent’s footballing nations. The Uefa

Walking an economic tightrope – the price to Ukrainians for four months of unrest. But how much can the IMF loan and further payments pave the way to

Turkey’s telecoms authority has shut down YouTube. Regulators say an anonymous account posted what it presented as a leaked recording of a

NATO has been thumping its chest at Moscow to counter fears in Kyiv that Russia’s appetite for fresh territory might be bigger than Crimea. Guards at

The spectacular Corinth Canal in Greece is 6.4 kilometres in length, only 21 metres wide at its base and impassable for most modern ships. But

Warm hugs and hearty handshakes abounded when the US President Barack Obama met Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The two men praised their

A French court has ordered a gossip magazine to pay actress Julie Gayet 15,000 euros in damages over an article in which it claimed she had been

Emergency services in the Canary Islands say staff mistook a large tugboat pulling a ship for a crashed plane, sparking fears of an aviation

Hundreds of flights were cancelled on Thursday as a strike by baggage handlers and other ground staff brought disruption to German

Stolen from their mothers at birth, sold to be brought up by another. We meet Juani and Paloma, two Spanish women caught up in Spain’s scandal of

The Kremlin wants to set up a Russian credit card system to reduce a reliance on Western-based companies and in response to US and European sanctions

For his supporters, he is Egypt’s saviour – the right man to bring stability to a country in crisis. But the Islamist opposition reviles General

“The only man in Ukrainian politics,” that’s how former Prime Minister Yulia Tymeschenko was once described by Russian President Vladimir

Only three years ago a string of mountain towns, including Teresópolis, 60 miles north of Rio de Janeiro were hit by one of Brazil’s worst ever

It wasn’t a bird and it certainly wasn’t a plane, but Canary Islands’ emergency services caused confusion the world over when they announced an

Being dragged two hours up the Atlantic coast by a hammerhead shark was probably not how one Florida university student planned on spending his

Turkey blocked YouTube as a precaution after voice recordings purportedly of senior officials discussing a potential military operation in Syria

Ukraine has won a financial lifeline from the International Monetary Fund. Up to 13 billion euros in standby credit from the IMF will unlock

Families of the Chinese passengers on board missing Flight MH370 remain furious at what many of them see as a cover-up. And a meeting on Wednesday

The latest images captured by a Thai satellite show possible plane debris in the southern Indian Ocean. But Thailand says it can’t be sure the

A group of Ukrainian women is taking sanctions of a different kind in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea. They have started a tongue-in-cheek

The much-anticipated sequel ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ is about to hit screens worldwide and Sony Pictures has been pulling all the promotional

He was one of the less well known faces of Irish boy band Westlife. Now Kian Egan is going it alone with his debut album ‘Home’. Turning solo

“Not knowing is the hardest,” says local woman Dawn Grant, whose friends are missing in the mudslide that has destroyed an entire community in the

A Hungarian citizen who lives or works abroad but still has a residence in Hungary, has to be registered in the electoral roll of the Hungarian