Cyprus today announced an immediate halt to flights by its national carrier after EU regulators ordered Nicosia to recover illegal state aid granted to the holiday island's ailing airline. Cyprus...

A Jewish man was stabbed this evening outside the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City. The stabber fled the scene and police are still searching for him. Initial reports said the victim was in...

Two Tunisian reporters have been executed by Isis, the Islamic terrorist organisation. The two, Sofien Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari, had been kidnapped since last September. They were killed at...

French anti-terrorism police converged on an area northeast of Paris after two brothers suspected of being behind an attack on a satirical newspaper were spotted at a petrol station in the...

Two people including a police officer have been seriously wounded in a shooting on the southern edge of Paris, officials say. Authorities are doing their utmost to identify and arrest the...

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) - Divers were hoping to zero in on AirAsia Flight 8501's black boxes Thursday, after search and recovery operations got a much-needed boost with the discovery of a chunk...

Pierre-Adrien Sollier is a 32-year-old artist who has graduated in graphic arts and specialised in 3D animation.  He has tried to develop a history of art using Playmobil figures instead of...

Claims by Omar Al-Hassi, the Libya-Dawn supported "prime minister" in Tripoli, that a British military delegation recently paid a three-day visit to the capital have been rubbished by the British...

One of eight new planets spied in distant solar systems has usurped the title of "most Earth-like alien world", astronomers have said. All eight were picked out by Nasa's Kepler space telescope,...

At least two gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing a number of people, French media report. Witnesses spoke of sustained gunfire at the office...