A woman who was used as a sex-slave managed to escape her captor and save three other women held by him after she used knotted sheets to climb to safety.   Police have hailed the courage of...

Europe maintains the overall highest press freedoms worldwide despite rollbacks in Greece, Montenegro, Turkey and the United Kingdom.    Among the 42 countries ranked in Europe in a...

The Ukrainian Security Service said one of the helicopters was shot down with a surface-to-air missile, which it said undercut Russia's claims that the city is under control of civilians who took...

Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov has reinstated military conscription to deal with deteriorating security in the east of the country.   The move, announced in a decree,...

Riot police in Turkey have used tear gas and water cannon to prevent demonstrators defying a ban on protests on Istanbul's central Taksim Square.   The Anatolia news agency said several...

Northern Ireland republican leader Gerry Adams has spent the night in police custody after being arrested in connection with the 1972 murder of a mother of 10, Jean McConville.   Speaking...

The governor of Oklahoma called for an independent review of how the state conducts executions after a botched procedure that was expected to intensify the debate over how the United States handles...

British actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from noir drama "Mona Lisa" to animated fantasy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" has died aged 71.   A family...

Administrators at the center where Silvio Berlusconi will perform community service for a tax fraud conviction say the three-time former Italian premier will be assigned to work with Alzheimer's...

The Australian agency heading up the search for the missing Malaysian jet has dismissed a claim by a resource survey company that it found possible plane wreckage in the northern Bay of...