Tens of thousands have turned out for a memorial march in Moscow after the murder of prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov. The former deputy prime minister and fierce critic ...

Icy weather conditions have been causing severe travel disruption to parts of the US in recent weeks. The ferries which cross the Hudson river from Manhattan to Staten Island in New York ...

In Liberia, new infections of the Ebola virus have dropped to one-tenth from levels seen when the virus was at its peak. The country recently reopened its border with Sierra Leone and lifte ...

Angelina Jolie, our Special Envoy, travelled to Malta and met three people who risked everything to reach safety. More people than ever before are risking their lives in search of safety ...

KANO: A girl thought to be as young as seven killed herself and seven others in a suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria on Sunday as President Goodluck Jonathan conceded his government had in ...

Britain and the European Union have been accused of a "catastrophic misreading" of the mood in the Kremlin in the run-up to the crisis in Ukraine. The House of Lords EU committee claimed Eu ...

The pressure on European nations to act together to resolve the issue of migration is growing. The EU border agency, Frontex, says a record number of migrants are likely to arrive on the co ...

The United Nations refugee agency says 2,700 migrants have been rescued from boats in the Mediterranean since Saturday. Hundreds more migrants are expected to be brought ashore on Tuesday a ...