Russia's military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region, striking the last...

“The Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New...

Famous Italian journalist Piero Angela has died, aged 93, his family has said. Angela was the producer and presenter of Rai TV programmes such as Quark and Superquark, programmes which dealt with...

European authorities are considering a liquefied natural gas pipeline from Spain to Italy as a way of getting around France’s opposition to a gas link-up across the Pyrenees between the Iberian...

Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a...

The airline Ryanair will no longer be in a position to offer flights at very low prices, according to the airline’s chief executive Michael O’Leary.  In an international report...

Ukraine said Wednesday that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in a deadly string of explosions at an air base in Crimea that appeared to be the result of a Ukrainian attack, which would represent...

Greek authorities were conducting a major search and rescue operation Wednesday for dozens of people missing at sea east of the island of Karpathos after a boat reportedly carrying up to 80 migrants...

Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John, who starred in the film “Grease” and had several hit songs over her career, has died at the age of 73, her official Facebook page announced Monday....

A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled in the Cuban city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flames injured 121 people and left 17 firefighters missing....