Lauren Bacall, the tough-talking femme fatale who taught Humphrey Bogart how to whistle, died on Tuesday at the age of 89, according to a statement from Bogart’s estate.   “With...

More than 1,200 migrants have entered Spain illegally by sea over two days amid Spanish denials that Morocco failed to carry out patrols.   The interior ministry said the wave of migrants...

Tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped by militants on a mountain in northern Iraq and need "life-saving assistance", the United Nations warns.   Members of the Yazidi sect...

The 60-year old archpriest of Taormina, Don Salvatore Sinito'', has been abruptly removed by the Archbishop of Messina.   The case has raised a scandal in the Italian...

A Ukrainian security spokesman has said that a humanitarian convoy being dispatched to eastern Ukraine by Russia will not be admitted into the country.   Andriy Lysenko, a...

Parents in Britain both working full time on minimum wage to support their family do not earn enough to live on, according to a new report.   The cost of living has shot up so much that...

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...