Revellers across the globe are gathering to welcome in the new year, with New Zealand and Australia leading the celebrations. A giant clock in Auckland's Sky Tower counted down the minutes until...

A cargo ship said to be carrying 700 clandestine migrants which was taken under Italian control at sea has docked in the Italian port of Gallipoli. The Blue Sky M had apparently been abandoned by...

A body recovered earlier today from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an official with Indonesia's search and rescue agency said, raising questions about how the disaster...

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was arrested on Tuesday after breaking house arrest to join an opposition rally in Moscow, hours after a court gave him a suspended sentence for fraud. His...

A former son-in-law of Kazakhstan's president who later became a prominent opponent and who lived for a time in Malta has been charged with murder by prosecutors in Austria. Rakhat Aliyev, a...

A vessel that called for help off Greece is a Moldovan-flagged cargo ship believed to be carrying migrants, Greece's shipping ministry said on Tuesday. Greek state television earlier reported a...

Two Albanian seamen were killed today during an operation to secure the stricken Italian ferry Norman Atlantic. The seamen died after the cable between their tugboat and the ferry snapped as they...

A huge, secret, underground Nazi weapons factory, believed to have been built for the development and planned manufacture of nuclear weapons and other WMDs, has been uncovered in Austria. Now...

Tuesday painfully ended the mystery of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people aboard and was lost to searchers for more than two days. The bodies were found about...

The Scottish government have confirmed an Ebola case has been diagnosed and treated at a Glasgow hospital. A healthcare worker returning from Sierra Leone has been found to carry the virus...