Europe

Vatican City: Pope Francis held an emotional meeting with hundreds of children on Saturday, including a Nigerian boy whose parents drowned in a shipwreck,...

Rome: More than 2,000 migrants were rescued from boats in the Mediterranean on Friday, Italy's coastguard said, as numbers soared for the third year...

Kiev: Securing pilot Nadiya Savchenko's release from Russian captivity was a PR coup for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko but the outspoken woman...

Paris: French riot police removed picketers and barricades blocking access to a large fuel distribution depot as President Francois Hollande warned...

Ankara/Istanbul: The number of foreign visitors to Turkey fell by 28 per cent in April, official data showed on Friday, the biggest drop in 17 years amid...

Moscow/Kiev: Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko arrived home to scenes of jubilation on Wednesday after her release by Russia in a prisoner swap and...

Paris: The stand-off between France's government and a hardline union over labour reforms stiffened on Wednesday as the country mobilised strategic oil...

London: A campaign video urging young Britons to "make sure you're #VOTIN" to stay in the European Union in a June 23 referendum backfired on...

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday she was not worried about the fate of a migrant pact between the European Union and Turkey, but...

Florence: A stretch of street collapsed in central Florence early Wednesday, dropping a row of parked cars into an underground pipeline and cutting water...