Militant group Boko Haram have reportedly seized the Nigerian town of Chibok. Meanwhile 500 km away in Kano a suicide bomber bomb has killed six

International monitors deployed in rebel-held eastern Ukraine have reported seeing a large convoy of military vehicles and personnel moving westward

Scotland may hold another independence vote if British leaders in London fail to honour their pledge to grant it more autonomy, warned from Alex

Equatorial Guinea is to host the Africa Cup of Nations after Morocco requested a postponement amid Ebola fears. ¨ Equatorial Guinea were disqualified

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has warned eastern rebels that the army is ready to fend off any attack if a fragile ceasefire crumbles. But

Sweden says it has proof that a submarine was operating in its waters illegally, but has not identified which country was behind the intrusion in

As if foreign exchange trading wasn’t complicated enough, we’ve learned that some of those involved haven’t been playing by the rules. Global

French police say Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been hospitalised in the Alpine city of Grenoble. There were no details given about

Hundreds of emergency workers and group of professional animal hunters near Paris have been following a trail of paw prints left by what was first

Romanian presidential candidates Victor Ponta and Klaus Iohannis: the first has been prime minister since 2012, and — in a country challenged by

Eurozone economic growth remains at a snail’s pace, but was stronger than expected in the period from July to September and it seems Greece is out of

Iraqi government forces are edging closer to recapturing the country’s biggest oil refinery at Baiji. It is the nearest they have come to breaking

Israel has lifted restrictions on Muslims entering Al Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem. Men of all ages were allowed to pray at the holy site on Friday

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, whose country takes over the G20 presidency next year, said the group needs to be more inclusive. “The G20

Protests – at times leading to violence – have taken place in several Italian cities as people rallied against the government’s labour reforms and

Turning trash into art – Argentinian visual arts group Bazofia Estenopeica, or “Pinhole Trash”, is giving rubbish bins a whole new raison d‘être

For their first ever concert in Hungary, British-American indie band The Boxer Rebellion took to the stage onboard the famous A38 – a decommissioned

The New York Deaf Theatre company is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a production of ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’. Performed

A Moscow court has extended the house arrest of Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov for another four months. The court said he is a flight

After his critically acclaimed ‘Bullhead’, young Belgian director Michael Roskam is back with urban thriller 'The Drop', starring James

Airbus has reported a stronger-than-expected 12 percent rise in underlying operating profit for the nine month period from January to September and

A tax deal between the world’s biggest coffee chain, Starbucks, and the Netherlands may be illegal, EU competition regulators are saying. The

Eurozone economic growth remains at a snail’s pace, but was stronger than expected in the period from July to September. The preliminary estimate

Rosetta! A stunning practical demonstration of applied mathematics, and a reminder how much there is to discover out there. Perspectives this week

‘Incomplete’ and ‘erroneous’ are two of the milder criticisms of FIFA’s summary of the report on corruption concerning World Cup bids. That these are

Liberia has ended its state of emergency over Ebola in place since August. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf also announced that night curfews would

Romania heads to the polls on Sunday to elect its next president. The firm favourite to win the second-round run-off is Prime Minister Victor Ponta