Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said he would personally sign an association agreement with the European Union on June 27. He told reporters

The US President Barack Obama has ordered some 300 military advisers to Iraq but ruled out committing any combat troops. Following a meeting with

One of the world’s rarest whales has been filmed off the coast of Australia. The mammal – a male all-white humpback – is making its migration along

One group of people did extremely well in 2013, and that was the super-rich around the world. Although the prices of the sorts of luxury things they

Tensions are rising in the occupied West Bank as Israel steps up its operation to find three missing Israeli teenagers. No-one has yet claimed

Iraqi government forces have been fighting with Sunni rebels for control of the country’s biggest oil refinery. The sprawling Baiji refinery has

Greece and Hungary approved less than one-in-ten asylum requests last year despite their EU obligations, new figures reveal. Eurostat numbers show

Spain’s new king, Felipe VI, appeared on the balcony of Madrid’s royal palace on Thursday afternoon to wave to tens of thousands of flag-waving

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has managed to form a group in the European Parliament. It means his party will gain access to more financing and could

Ukrainian government sources said its troops and pro-Russian separatists were locked in fierce fighting in the east of Ukraine. This comes after

Four Taliban militants have been killed during an attack on a NATO base in Afghanistan that destroyed 37 trucks full of fuel and supplies. The

Doctors have praised a Canadian woman who took a video of herself having a mini-stroke. Stacey Yepes, from Ontario, was driving when she began

After a week spent in the claustrophobia of Germany’s deepest cave, caver Johann Westhauser has finally been brought to the surface. He will now be

Smartphone pioneer Blackberry has announced smaller-than-expected losses for the first quarter despite a fall in turnover. The Canadian company has

The price of oil continues to creep up, with Brent crude now just short of 115 dollars a barrel over fears of fighting in Iraq, one of OPEC’s biggest

Hollywood actress Gemma Arterton is swapping cinema for theatre as she prepares to star in the musical adaptation of the film 'Made in Dagenham'

The Architecture Biennale in Venice is the largest of its kind in the world and the curator at this year’s event, Dutch architect and provocateur Rem

Four years ago, in an ambitious move to rejuvenate flagging audiences, the Israeli Opera launched a festival at the historic Masada site.

Oscar-winning Canadian director Paul Haggis boasts a starry cast for his latest movie ‘Third Person’. Featuring Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Adrian

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that snap elections may be needed if a growing political crisis is not contained. Scandal has engulfed

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has made a fresh appeal to the US Attorney General on the second anniversary of his asylum in Ecuador’s London

Nearly 100 rampaging Chilean football fans burst through a security checkpoint at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, sprinting through a large

Iraqis are once again having to face the harsh reality of conflict as the numbers of those killed in fighting grows, but for ISIL, known as the

Spain’s new king, Felipe VI, was officially sworn in at a ceremony in front of parliament in Madrid on Thursday. With his wife, Queen Letizia, and

Felipe de Borbón y Grecia was born in Madrid on 30 January 1968, the third child of the then Prince of Spain, Juan Carlos and his Princess Sofía, who

In the Ceremony of the Promulgation, King Juan Carlos I of Spain signs his abdication into law. After almost 40 years on the throne, he is passing

Some 3,000 residents of Tal Afar in western Iraq continue to flee after attacks by Sunni militants. Families sit in the back of trucks as they are