The American actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr, who starred in the long-running TV show The FBI, has died at the age of 95.   Zimbalist Jr played Inspector Lewis Erskine in the show, which ran from...

Two days of chaos and violence in east and south-east Ukraine appeared on Saturday to be pushing the country ever closer to civil war, as the death toll rose to 42 following a military...

British health officials have issued advice to passengers after a suspected case of the Mers respiratory virus on board a flight passing through London.   Public Health England said a...

Rescuers in Afghanistan are sifting through mud for a second day after a landslide that is feared to have buried at least 2,000 people.   The UN said more than 350 bodies had been recovered...

Ukraine's government has resumed military action to tackle pro-Russian separatists in the east, after a day of deadly violence in the city of Odessa.   Interior Minister Arsen Avakov...

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...