Ukraine comic leads presidential poll first round
A comedian with no political experience has won the most votes in the first round of Ukraine's presidential elections, according to exit polls
Updated | UK MPs reject May's EU withdrawal agreement for a third time
MPs reject Theresa May’s EU withdrawal agreement by 344 votes to 286, throwing UK’s Brexit plans into more confusion • European Council President Donald Tusk...
Iceland’s most active volcano starting to erupt

Iceland's most active volcano, Grimsvotn, which last erupted in 2004, has...

Iceland's most active volcano, Grimsvotn, which last...

Strauss-Kahn moved to Broadway flat

Former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been taken to a New York City apartment after posting a massive bail fee.

Former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique...

NATO strikes sink eight Libyan warships

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi's war machine has suffered a significant blow after Nato strikes sank eight of his warships.

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi's war machine has...

Israeli PM rejects Obama '1967 borders' speech

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls from the US...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected...

Spain's electoral commission declares weekend mass protests illegal as millions called to the ballots

Spain's electoral commission has declared that protests set for this weekend by thousands of people angry over the economic crisis are illegal.

Spain's electoral commission has declared that...

Pakistan car bomb targets US consulate cars

A car bomb targeted US consulate vehicles in Peshawar on Friday, killing one...

A car bomb targeted US consulate vehicles in Peshawar on...

Quake hits Northern Turkey, kills one

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale hit northwest Turkey late last night, killing one person and causing material damage, local governor Kenan...

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale hit...

Fitch downgrades Greece to 'B+'

Fitch has cut Greece's credit rating by three notches, pushing it deeper into junk territory, and warned of more downgrades if the EU and the IMF do not...

Fitch has cut Greece's credit rating by three...

'I'm innocent' Strauss-Kahn says as he resigns IMF top job

The IMF chief charged with a sex attack on a hotel maid has resigned from his...

The IMF chief charged with a sex attack on a hotel maid...

Earthquake devastation hurls Japan back into recession

Japan, the world's third largest economy, contracted sharply in the first...

Japan, the world's third largest economy, contracted...

Amnesty International urges deeper probe into Egypt revolt

Egypt still has more work to do to give justice to those killed and injured...

Egypt still has more work to do to give justice to those...

Libya humanitarian crisis 'worsening' - UN secretary general

Attempts to secure a ceasefire in Libya have failed and the humanitarian...

Attempts to secure a ceasefire in Libya have failed and...

New York preachers claim end of the world will come 'this Saturday'

Preachers armed with T-shirts, brochures, books and posters are preaching the...

Preachers armed with T-shirts, brochures, books and...

MSF write to leaders in war with Libya not 'shirk responsibilities' towards victims

The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) published an open letter today in...

The international medical humanitarian organization...

Obama endorses 1967 borders for Israel

Seeking to harness the seismic political change still unfolding in the Arab world, US  President Barack Obama has for the first time publicly called for...

Seeking to harness the seismic political change still...

Strauss-Kahn granted bail, placed under house arrest

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been granted bail after being...

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been granted...

US presses Strauss-Kahn to step aside

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, locked up in a New York jail for alleged sexual assault, faced growing pressure as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, locked up in a New York...

Libyan oil minister ‘defected’

Pressure is piling on Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi after an apparent defection from his oil minister, a rebuke from Moscow, NATO air strikes on Tripoli and...

Pressure is piling on Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi after...