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...

A patient at a hospital near Toronto has been isolated as a precautionary measure after showing flu-like symptoms similar to those characteristic of the Ebola virus, a public health official said...

The US unleashed its first airstrikes in northern Iraq against militants of the Islamic State group Friday amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. The extremists took captive hundreds of women from a...

President Barack Obama's new military strategy in Iraq amounts to trying to contain, not destroy, the Islamic militant group that now controls much of the country's northern region. That...

U.S. fighters dropped bombs on Islamic militants in IraqFriday, the Pentagon said, carrying out President Barack Obama's promise of military force to counter the advancing militants and...