The Pentagon said on Tuesday it had no reason to believe that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group, was seriously

Saudi Arabia has announced an end to its military campaign in Yemen

German giants Bayern Munich booked their place in the semi-finals of the Champions League with an emphatic 6-1 win over FC Porto at the Allianz Arena

It is the most solemn of centenaries….exactly 100 years since the first large-scale use of chemical weapons. Victims from World War One were

Seven people have been killed in the past three weeks in Durban and Johannesburg

The captain of the migrant ship involved in Sunday’s disaster off Libya has been detained in Sicily, alongside a crew member – both suspected of

SportAccord President Marius Vizer fiercely criticised the International Olympic Committee for a lack of transparency on Monday, sending shock waves

The head of the Russian gas giant Gazprom Alexei Miller has been meeting in Athens with the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for talks on an

Saudi Arabia says it has achieved its goals against Houthi rebels in Yemen

A 93-year-old former bookkeeper at Auschwitz has told a German court that he felt morally guilty for his work at the Nazi death camp. Oskar Groening

Soldiers’ descendants have come to commemorate the British allied forces in WWI landing in Gallipoli, Turkey, 100 years ago. The 25th April is known

The European Commission has been forced to deny rumours that its president, Jean-Claude Juncker, is unwell and often absent from work.

The prime minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu has offered his deep respect to Ottoman Armenians who lost their lives during what he described as “the

A dire warning has been issued as survivors of Sunday’s shipwreck arrived in Sicily, after a disaster that left up to 900 people dead. It is feared

The deaths of up to 900 migrants in the Mediterranean over the weekend sparked the EU into action. After an emergency meeting of foreign ministers

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Mursi has been jailed for 20 years without parole

Canada’s Cirque du Soleil has sold a majority stake to Chinese and American investors. The buyers are US private equity firm TPG Capital and

European regulators will formally charge Russia’s state-run energy giant Gazprom with anti-competitive practices, say sources in Brussels.

Libya has been the main launch pad for African migrants heading for Europe since the downfall — assisted by NATO countries’ bombers — of Muammar

Wonga, the British payday loan firm, has reported a loss of around 55 million euros. The short-term lender recorded a profit of the same amount in

Russia’s economy has contracted by around two percent in the first quarter but Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says the economic situation is

Players from a major Moroccan football club are reportedly among 29 people injured, some seriously, in a head-on crash between their team bus and a

Around 30 people have been injured in France, two seriously, in a collision between a train and a tractor-trailer at a level crossing in the Paris

Credit Suisse has reported better than expected quarterly results of some 1.1billion euros. The bank’s wealth management performance is seen as the

A new report suggests investor confidence in Germany has unexpectedly dropped for the first time in six months. The Mannheim-based ZEW Center for

A 32-year-old man has been detained in connection with a fire at the British Embassy in the Hague. Emergency services in the Netherlands say no-one

A former Auschwitz concentration camp guard has admitted to being “morally guilty” but says he committed no crime. Oskar Groening, 93, is before a

The magnitude of the latest migrant tragedies in the Mediterranean has prompted a global reaction. Cartoonists and NGOs have published powerful

The time for the annual Eurovision Song Contest is nearly upon us again. With preparations underway for the May bash in Vienna, the spotlight is