Europe

Stockholm: Sweden's housing minister, Mehmet Kaplan, resigned on Monday partly over comments he made seven years ago on Israel's treatment of...

Paris: French President Francois Hollande would lose election next year no matter who his opponents were, a poll showed on Monday, with poor ratings...

Istanbul: Executives of a major Turkish company were among 100 people detained by police on Monday over allegations of funding the movement of cleric...

London: British finance minister George Osborne said a vote to leave the European Union would do permanent damage to the country's economy and could...

Berlin: Two thirds of Germans oppose Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to allow prosecutors to pursue a case against a German comedian who mocked...

Ankara: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday his country and neighboring Iran must work together to narrow their differences in order to tackle...

Lesbos (Greece): Pope Francis took three families of Syrian refugees back to Rome on Saturday after visiting the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis at...

London: In a huge immunisation effort in 150 countries, health teams will on Sunday launch what they hope will be the final push against polio. Stopping...

Geneva: Almost 6,000 migrants and refugees have sailed from Libya to Italy in the past three days in what appears the start of a wave of at least 100,000...

Berlin: Germany's Angela Merkel agreed on Friday to allow prosecutors to pursue a case against a German comedian who read out a crude poem about...