Europe

Toulouse: French police have used tear gas and water cannon to break up a protest by nearly 1,000 yellow vest demonstrators in the south-western city of...

Vienna: Austrians are due to vote in snap general elections on Sunday, after a video sting scandal in May collapsed the coalition government. Opinion...

London: Boris Johnson has been formally referred for potential investigation into whether he committed the criminal offence of misconduct in public office,...

Brussels: The act of thumbing a lift has been in and out of favour over the years, romanticised in great works of literature chronicling the travails of...

Athens: A baby and a toddler were among seven people who died when a boat carrying migrants and refugeessank in the eastern Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard...

Paris: Jacques Chirac, the former French president who championed Europe, and whose later years were blighted by corruption scandals, has died aged...

Rome: Italian authorities have closed roads and evacuated mountain huts after experts warned that part of a glacier on Mont Blanc could collapse. About...

London: A humiliated UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been forced to cut short a set-piece visit to New York at the United Nations and fly back to face...

London: UK PM Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled. Johnson suspended - or prorogued - Parliament...

London: Failed British tour operator Thomas Cook's customers have accused airlines of cashing in on the holiday firm's demise after being faced with...