Fire on board a Spanish ferry in the Mediterranean has forced more than 150 passengers and crew to abandon ship. Despite the flames and smoke

Amid the unrest in eastern Ukraine, rebel fighters are carrying out their own form of summary justice. One rebel fighter was tied to a road sign in

Indonesia has gone ahead with the executions of eight out of nine drugs offenders who had been on death row. A woman from the Philippines has

Following the devastation caused by the Nepal earthquake, euronews spoke to Handicap International, to find out more about the rescue efforts in the

A spacecraft loaded with supplies for the International Space Station is reportedly spinning out of control. Contact was lost with the unmanned

Belgian under-21 international, Gregory Mertens, is fighting for his life after he suffered heart failure during a reserve team match at Genk for his

New cars and light vans will have to be fitted with devices that will automatically alert rescue services when a vehicle crashes from 2018. It

A week-long nightly curfew from 10pm to 5am has been announced in the US city of Baltimore after rioting erupted in protest at the death of a black

The US Federal reserve will be in the sights of investors when its two day meeting ends on Wednesday. Investors will be scouring the post meeting

A race against time in the search for survivors: as the death toll rises, the UN announces eight million people are affected by the Nepal earthquake.

Four months after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, EU officials have unveiled a proposed security strategy for the 28-member bloc. The European Commission

“A country on a war-footing”. That’s how Prime Minister Sushil Koirala described Nepal as his government struggles to help survivors after Saturday’s

Lee Chong Wei, former badminton world number one, is set to return to the court after being handed a eight-month backdated ban by the Badminton World

Police have fired tear gas and live rounds to disperse protesters in Burundi, as anger boils over a decision by the president to run for a third

The US says its monitoring a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship, which has been boarded by Iranian forces in the Gulf. The MV Maersk Tigris made a

Demonstrators from both sides of the argument gathered outside the US Supreme Court as it prepared to hear whether same-sex marriage should be a

Andrea Ferrari is one of the world’s best known experts in one of the world’s most exciting new materials: graphene. Yet he is also a cautious

Just as Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg emerged as the star of Britain’s first televised election debates in 2010, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has

One of Mozart’s most famous operas, ‘The Mariage of Figaro’, is returning to Moscow’s Bolshoi after a 20-year break. The last time the masterpiece

Member of the European Parliament on Tuesday backed plans to curb the use of lightweight plastic carrier bags. Shoppers will have to use reusable

One of Germany’s highest-profile corporate trials has opened in Munich. Deutsche Bank’s co-chief executive Juergen Fitschen and four others are

A shot across the bows of Prime Minister David Cameron. That’s the political analysis of figures released on Tuesday which showed Britain’s economy

Several hundred people held a vigil in Sydney for the two convicted Australians awaiting execution in Indonesia. In other towns and cities too people

Nepal’s government has struggled in the wake of the country’s worst earthquake in nearly a century, and its officials have been largely absent from

The Progress resupply spacecraft was temporarily lost on Tuesday morning (April 28) following take off from Kazakhstan. Russian mission control had

A fall in profits but a resilient business. That’s the message from oil giant BP’s data for the three months to the end of March. Underlying profit