Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine's new president, has opened talks with Russia on restoring peace in two breakaway eastern provinces a day after taking office, vowing to negotiate an end to the three-month-old pro-Russian insurgency. Mr Poroshenko took part on ...

A French man suspected of ties with Islamic militant groups and who spent time in Syria has been charged in connection with last month's shooting at a Jewish museum in Belgium. Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French citizen, was charged with murder, ...

Most stressful job in the world this week: head of diplomatic protocol at the Elysée Palace. The White House said on Friday that Barack Obama would have a “private dinner” in Paris this Thursday with François Hollande, shortly after the Kremlin announced ...

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk expects to send astronauts into space in his resuable rockets within two years, promising to apply commercial airliner economics to intergalactic space travel. SpaceX, the first private rocket maker to deliver cargo to the ...

Ford became the latest carmaker to issue a significant recall amid a current spate in the US when it said it was recalling nearly 1.4m vehicles, mostly from its popular sport utility vehicle ranges. Ford said it was recalling around 915,200 Ford Escape and ...

Ford became the latest carmaker to issue a significant recall amid a current spate in the US when it said it was recalling nearly 1.4m vehicles, mostly from its popular sport utility vehicle ranges. Ford said it was recalling around 915,200 Ford Escape and ...

Ford became the latest carmaker to issue a significant recall amid a current spate in the US when it said it was recalling nearly 1.4m vehicles, mostly from its popular sport utility vehicle ranges. Ford said it was recalling around 915,200 Ford Escape and ...

Scores of heavily armed paramilitaries stormed the Donetsk headquarters of Ukraine's pro-Russia separatists on Thursday, kicking out the rebel leaders and announcing a new order in the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic. Armed with ...

The declaration by Ms Merkel, made after nearly five hours of summitry in Brussels, deals a serious blow to the presumptive frontrunner in the race, former Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker, the top candidate, or Spitzenkandidat, for Ms ...

As India's economic growth has fallen into a tailspin in recent years, corporate titans and foreign investors have pointed fingers at New Delhi – blaming bureaucratic gridlock, internal Congress party bickering and renegade ministers for dragging the economy ...

General Motors' total global recalls this year rose past 15m vehicles as the carmaker called back a further 2.4m potentially unsafe cars in the latest attempt to address its tarnished safety reputation. The new series of recalls come five days after GM ordered ...

Narendra Modi, India's prime minister-elect, vowed on Tuesday to work tirelessly to fulfil the nation's hopes and aspirations after newly elected legislators from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party formally elected him as their leader. Mr Modi, a ...

Perhaps the European Court of Justice wants to equal the US Supreme Court in a display of poor judgment. That might explain why it ruled this week that a 19-year-old directive means Google must remove some search results that people do not like.

Perhaps the European Court of Justice wants to equal the US Supreme Court in a display of poor judgment. That might explain why it ruled this week that a 19-year-old directive means Google must remove some search results that people do not like.

Germany on Tuesday launched a renewed diplomatic bid to defuse the Ukraine crisis with a bridge-building visit to Kiev by foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier aimed at closing the yawning gap between the interim government and the pro-Russia ...

Suthep Thaugsuban swept through Bangkok's business district protected by a phalanx of toughs while gathering fistfuls of banknotes thrust his way by supporters at the roadside. He bowed his head and clasped his hands as he took 10,000 baht ($307 ) from ...

Suthep Thaugsuban swept through Bangkok's business district protected by a phalanx of toughs while gathering fistfuls of banknotes thrust his way by supporters at the roadside. He bowed his head and clasped his hands as he took 10,000 baht ($307 ) from ...

With the advent of Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan, Thailand has got its sixth prime minister in as many years after Yingluck Shinawatra was ousted by the constitutional court on Wednesday for alleged abuse of power. Mr Niwatthamrong inherits the political ...

Within 24 hours of a deadly bomb attack on a bus station in Abuja, and on the same day as the shocking abduction of about 200 schoolgirls by Islamist insurgents, President Goodluck Jonathan was dancing at a political gathering. The event in the northern ...

'Agent Yulia Obamovna': a poster melding a doctored image of Barack Obama with Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's former prime minister and now a presidential candidate. Anti-US symbols are common at barricaded buildings in eastern Ukraine. The flag of the ...