Europe

London: The famous chimes of Big Ben will fall silent next year as the 160-year-old parliamentary clock tower undergoes essential repairs as part of a £29...

London: Junior doctors in England began their first all-out strike in the nearly 70-year history of the National Health Service (NHS) on Tuesday, a dramatic...

Istanbul/Ankara: A call by Turkey's parliament speaker for a new constitution to drop references to secularism provoked opposition condemnation and a...

Athens: Two ferries left Greece for Turkey on Tuesday with 18 migrants on board and a government spokesman said Athens was doing all it could to process...

Warrington (England): Police failures were to blame for the deaths of 96 Liverpool soccer fans in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium crush, a jury concluded on...

Kiev: Ukraine held memorial services on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which permanently poisoned swathes of...

Lesbos (Greece)/London: Queen Rania of Jordan met refugees at a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday in a visit to highlight the plight of people...

London: With dawn services and military parades, tens of thousands of people gathered in different countries on Monday to commemorate the ANZAC landings on...

Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base (Romania): Two highly advanced US fighters flew to the Black Sea on Monday for the first time since Washington beefed up...

London: A Burundian activist credited with saving thousands of children's lives during a 12-year ethnically charged civil war is the first recipient of...