A Spanish missionary who contracted the Ebola virus while working in West Africa has died in hospital in Madrid.   More than 1,000 people have died in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and...

Iraq's embattled prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, appeared to have lost his job today, after the country's president appointed a rival Shia candidate to form a new...

Three French workers are to appear in court on charges of stealing gold worth €900,000 from a property they worked on, a local French newspaper reports.   They are said to have been...

Tropical storm Halong lashed Japan with strong winds and thunderstorm killing one and prompting evacuation orders for more than 1 million residents near swollen rivers. Land and air traffic was...

Its full name is 'Pu-pi-lla (Through the looking glass)'.   It is an art installation by artist Raoul Gilioli which the comune of Turin has put up in a central square of the city for...

Australians have reacted with horror to images posted by a jihadist from Sydney that purport to show his seven-year-old son holding up the severed head of a Syrian victim.   Khaled Sharrouf,...

An artillery shell landed in a high-security prison in the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, sparking a riot in which 106 inmates escaped, local officials say.   At least one prisoner was...

Reports suggest Ukrainian government forces are poised to surround pro-Russian separatist rebels in Donetsk region as fierce fighting continues.   The rebels' commander is quoted as...

The mayor of Kiev has taken the lead in work to dismantle the final barriers and tents on the Ukrainian capital's main street, nine months after pro-EU demonstrators took to the...

Five people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza, health officials there say, as Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets at Israel.   Violence resumed after the end of a...