2014-08-30

Two Ebola patients, given the experimental drug ZMapp, have been allowed to leave a treatment centre in the Liberian capital after testing negative

France’s Nacer Bouhanni timed his sprint perfectly to claim stage 8 of the Vuelta a Espana on Saturday. The 24-year-old overcame strong crosswinds

The Russia-Ukraine situation is threatening to overshadow Saturday’s summit in Brussels aimed at deciding who will be the new EU High Representative

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will be the next President of the European Council. He takes over from Herman van Rompuy, who has made the

Locals from Mariupol in eastern Ukraine have been digging trenches and are poised to defend what many fear will be the next battle zone. Ukrainian

Swedish driver Bjorn Waldegaard, who became rallying’s first world champion in 1979, has died of cancer at the age of 70. Waldegaard clinched 16

Around 200 members of the Lev Tahor community, who practice an strict form of Judaism, have fled their homes in San Juan village near Guatemala

EU leaders have been meeting in Brussels on Saturday for a summit to decide on two of the EU’s top jobs. They are due to choose a new president of

Rescue workers have freed 20 miners who were trapped in a gold mine after a landslide in northern Nicaragua. Twenty-nine workers were initially

Ukraine’s military says it has pulled out of areas east of rebel stronghold Luhansk under pressure from pro-Russian rebels who have, according to a

UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights have been attacked by Syrian rebels. On Thursday, the militants who are fighting the Syrian government crossed

A volcano has erupted in Papua New Guinea, leading some airlines to alter their flight

A former Colombian paramilitary commander called the ‘monster of Catatumbo’ has been arrested in Panama. Armando Alberto Perez Betancourt, known

A five-year-old British boy with a brain tumour, who was taken from hospital by this family without doctors’ approval, has been found near Malaga in

At least six people have been killed and around 50

Twenty miners who had been trapped underground for two days after a landslide at a gold mine in Nicaragua have been freed. Authorities said the men

With just over a month to go until Brazil’s presidential election, polls show that environmentalist Marina Silva has widened her lead over Dilma

America’s military has released video of what it says is an airstrike against Islamic State fighters in Iraq. The footage, purportedly shot on

The Mont Blanc Ultra Trail, a day and night race around the highest summit in Europe, attracted around 7,500 runners as it began on Friday. Billed

As political talks over Ukraine continue, so does the violence. In the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, several shells have exploded. One hit a