Updated | UNHCR says refugee numbers are at highest ever levels
Refugees Commissioner calls for 'humane and dignified means to ensure refugees don’t risk their lives'  • Emigrants’ Commission recommends giving...
Five Star Movement seizes Rome, Turin
37-year-old Virginia Raggi wil Rome’s first woman mayor – and youngest
Senior Daesh leader Abu Wahib confirmed dead after US airstrike in Iraq

Abu Wahib, a senior Daesh leader in Iraq’s Anbar province, and three other extremist militants have been killed by a US airstrike

Abu Wahib, a senior Daesh leader in Iraq’s Anbar...

Protest walk in hoards ahead of Greek reform vote

Thousands of protesters have rallied in Greece as parliament prepares to vote...

Thousands of protesters have rallied in Greece as...

Panama Papers | 714 offshore companies: prominent Maltese, hotel groups, oil scandal business partner, and Belarus bagman's wife

Farsons chairman Louis Farrugia used offshore company for UK property • former PN minister Ninu Zammit, Norman Darmanin Demajo feature in list •...

Farsons chairman Louis Farrugia used offshore company for...

Team of BBC journalists expelled from North Korea

BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and his team are being expelled from...

BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and his team are...

Afghanistan hangs six Taliban inmates

Afghanistan hangs six Taliban prisoners after president Ashraf Ghani pledges to "show no mercy" following attack which left 64 dead in Kabul last...

Afghanistan hangs six Taliban prisoners after president...

Brexit: Juncker and Cameron warn about consequences of leaving the EU

European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker and British Prime Minister David...

European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker and British...

Greek MPs approve controversial austerity measures amidst riots

Greek MPs approve controversial pensions reform after two-day debate in...

Greek MPs approve controversial pensions reform after...

Mexican kingpin Joaquin Guzman moved to jail on US border

Mexican drug lord transferred to a jail near the Texas border in a development...

Mexican drug lord transferred to a jail near the Texas...

Over 70 killed in Afghanistan fuel tanker crash

At least 73 people killed, dozens injured after head-on collision between two...

At least 73 people killed, dozens injured after head-on...

London mayor Khan accuses Cameron of deploying tactics ‘from Trump Playbook’

Newly-elected London mayor Sadiq Khan accuses UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Conservatives of using Donald Trump tactics by trying to ‘turn ethnic...

Newly-elected London mayor Sadiq Khan accuses UK Prime...

Massive Canada wildfire likely to burn for months

Alberta officials fear raging blaze could reach major oil sands mine nearby and...

Alberta officials fear raging blaze could reach major oil...

North Korea will not use nuclear weapons unless threatened, says Kim Jong-un

North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un says country will not use nuclear weapons against other nations unless its sovereignty is threatened and says he is will to...

North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un says country will not use...

Gunmen kill eight police on outskirts of Cairo

Egypt is in the midst of an insurgency that has killed hundreds of police...

Egypt is in the midst of an insurgency that has killed...

Saharan Addax antelope faces imminent extinction

Saharn Addax antelope faces extinction after losing their habitat through oil...

Saharn Addax antelope faces extinction after losing their...

17 missing as fishing boat collides with Malta-flagged ship in Chinese waters

Search and rescue operation underway for 17 people who went missing after a fishing boat collided with a Malta-flagged ship and sank 

Search and rescue operation underway for 17 people who went...

Clinton to form ‘Republicans for Hillary’ group to exploit anti-Trump anger

Hillary Clinton's campaign starts targeting Republican voters who are disillusioned at Donald Trump's nomination as their party's presidential...

Hillary Clinton's campaign starts targeting Republican...

[WATCH] London elects first Muslim mayor of major western capital

Labour's Sadiq Khan elected mayor of London, winning 57% of the total vote...

Labour's Sadiq Khan elected mayor of London, winning...

Leaders discuss solutions for plans of coal-fired power in Asia

In an unusually stark warning, the World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, noted...

In an unusually stark warning, the World Bank president,...