The Libyan parliament has elected a businessman, Ahmed Maitig, to become the country's next prime minister, in a controversial vote.   Mr Maitig secured 121 votes in a confidence vote on...

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has been released from custody over a 1972 murder and a file will be sent to the Public Prosecution Service, police have confirmed.   Mr Adams had been...

Gay rights groups in France have voiced anger after a judge prevented a French lesbian couple from adopting an infant.   The boy, now aged four, was conceived through artificial insemination...

The American actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr, who starred in the long-running TV show The FBI, has died at the age of 95.   Zimbalist Jr played Inspector Lewis Erskine in the show, which ran from...

Two days of chaos and violence in east and south-east Ukraine appeared on Saturday to be pushing the country ever closer to civil war, as the death toll rose to 42 following a military...

British health officials have issued advice to passengers after a suspected case of the Mers respiratory virus on board a flight passing through London.   Public Health England said a...

Rescuers in Afghanistan are sifting through mud for a second day after a landslide that is feared to have buried at least 2,000 people.   The UN said more than 350 bodies had been recovered...

Ukraine's government has resumed military action to tackle pro-Russian separatists in the east, after a day of deadly violence in the city of Odessa.   Interior Minister Arsen Avakov...

It is one of the world's most famous statues, representing the Renaissance ideal of the male physique, but Michelangelo's David is in danger of collapsing because of its weak ankles, new tests...

A woman who was used as a sex-slave managed to escape her captor and save three other women held by him after she used knotted sheets to climb to safety.   Police have hailed the courage of...