Syria: activist secretly films life inside Isil-held city of Raqqa since air strikes began

German MPs vote overwhelmingly to extend financial aid to Greece by another four months, despite public scepticism.

Tensions in the South China Sea cross a line A diver’s underwater cutting of a section of rope in the South China Sea, as shown in a short video clip this week, may seem too simple an act to qualify as a serious international incident. But that diver was with the Philippine Coast Guard, and […]

At least 29 migrants have died from hypothermia while traveling from North Africa to Italy aboard a smuggler’s life raft in heavy seas, the Italian Coast Guard said Monday. The victims were among more than 100 people packed aboard an inflatable life raft who were trying to cross the Mediterranean in rough …