Bosnia says more than a quarter of its four million people have been affected by the worst floods to hit the Balkans in living memory. More than 40 people have been killed across the region and with waters receding in some of the worst affected areas, the ...

More migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean with the second shipwreck in two days of an overloaded boat carrying migrants from Africa. A rescue operation was mounted to try and save as many of the 400 people reportedly crammed into the boat as possible ...

Nigeria has denied claims it received a warning about an impending attack on a school from which more than 200 girls were abducted. The accusation has been made by the human rights group Amnesty International which cites interviews with multiple ...

South Korean police have detained for questioning the head of the company that owned the ferry that sank last month. Prosecutors said they believe that Kim Han-sik, president of Chonghaejin Marine Company, was aware the ship was three times over its ...

There were clashes in central Istanbul on Thursday after Turkish demonstrators tried to defy a government ban on May Day rallies at the city's iconic Taksim Square. Only a few trade union leaders were allowed into the area under police guard to lay flowers ...

Three people have been killed and at least 79 injured in a bomb and knife attack at a train station in the far west of China. The incident happened in the restive Xinjiang province where President Xi Jinping had just been ending a tour of the region. The leader ...

Iraq goes to the polls in the first election since US forces pulled out of the country three years ago. Security is extremely tight as the country is going through its worst period of sectarian violence since 2008. More than 160 people have been killed this week ...

Both the US and the EU condemn the Russian erosion of Ukrainian territorial integrity, but the transatlantic sanction paths are branching apart. Washington's sanctions appear tougher, targeting seven members of President Putin's inner circle, and 17 Russian ...

The South Korean prime minister resigned on Sunday over the government's handling of the ferry which sunk with more than 300 people on board. Chung Hong-won said he did not want to be a a “burden on the administration”. Relatives had criticised the ...

Sunday's canonisation of Pope John Paul II will carry a particular resonance in his native Poland – and especially in his hometown of Wadowice. This is where Karol Wojtyla was baptised, where he went to school, where he played in school plays and where ...

Sunday's canonisation of Pope John Paul II will carry a particular resonance in his native Poland – and especially in his hometown of Wadowice. This is where Karol Wojtyla was baptised, where he went to school, where he played in school plays and where ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – FIFA have downplayed security concerns for fans travelling to Brazil for the World Cup despite violent clashes between police and local residents of a favela this week. Two people were killed in a favela that straddles the hill ...

A prominent television talk show host is in hospital after being shot and injured in Pakistan. Hamid Mir works for Geo television and was in a rental car stopped in traffic near the airport on the way to his office in Karachi. Mir's attacker walked up to his vehicle, ...

A forth-term president for Algeria, re-elected in spite of failing health. The other candidates thought one of them might really have a chance to succeed Abdelaziz Bouteflika this time. Swiss RTS. Algeria, an economic paradox. Among the richest in the region's ...

One person confirmed dead and at least 300 students and teachers said to have been rescued from sinking passenger ferry off South Korean coast. News · Passenger ferry rescue launched off South Korea coast. 16/04 04:34 CET. Passenger ferry rescue ...

The earth's shadow falls across the moon, changing its colour – and prompting millions of people in the Americas to gaze at the night sky. The first total lunar eclipse in two and a half years was seen across large parts of the United States, Central and South ...

Ukraine's acting president has announced the start of an “anti-terrorist operation” in the east of the country. But on the ground witnesses reported no signs that Kyiv forces were ready to storm state buildings occupied by pro-Russian rebels. In Parliament the ...

On April 15, a total lunar eclipse will take place, the first in two and a half years. This rare celestial show will be visible on Tuesday as Earth's shadow falls across the moon, shifting its colour from bright orange to blood red and brown, depending on local ...

Israel has introduced economic sanctions on the Palestinian Authority in retaliation for their leadership signing international conventions, a move which has further jeopardised the troubled US-brokered peace talks. The Israeli government announced that it ...

During the genocide which killed almost a million people in Rwanda in 1994, many took refuge in houses of worship, though it proved no sanctuary to the ethnic violence. Twenty years on, a special mass was held at Sainte-Famille Catholic church in Kigali on ...