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On a recent Sunday evening in Beijing, a few minutes before 8pm, Huang Chong opened a Harry Potter video game on her smartphone and...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to a year of house arrest after illegally financing his campaign for re-election in 2012. A...

At least 116 people have been killed and 80 injured during a battle between gangs in a jail in what has been described as...

People on the Spanish island of La Palma have been urged to stay indoors due to toxic gas fears after lava from an erupting...

North Korea has claimed it has developed a new hypersonic missile following a test flight on Tuesday. If true it would represent a significant...

Twenty-one World Health Organisation (WHO) staff members were allegedly involved in sexual abuse during the agency’s response to the Ebola crisis in central Africa,...

Le Palma’s donation centre is a place for evacuated residents to find clothes and food, and also a place for them to console each...

Germany’s Social Democrats (SDP) will seek to start the process of trying to form a three-way alliance and lead the government for the first...

Preliminary results in the German election show the centre-left social democrats have beaten outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right bloc. SPD won 25.8% to the...

An exit poll in Germany suggests the two main rivals are tied in an election that will determine who will succeed Angela Merkel. No...

The world of 2005 feels a long way away. We had president George W Bush and prime minister Tony Blair; Prince Charles married Camilla...

Authorities have closed La Palma’s airport as a new vent opened in an erupting volcano, spreading more ash across the island. Flights to and...

The Hofbrauhaus in the heart of Munich is a huge building dedicated to the art of beer. It’s been welcoming drinkers for 432 years,...

Three more towns have been evacuated on the island of La Palma in the Canaries amid “intensifying volcanic activity”, emergency services say. Authorities ordered...

The advance of lava from a volcanic eruption in Spain’s Canary Islands has slowed, rising in some places up to 50 feet as it...

Swathes of La Palma are swimming in volcanic ash. It’s everywhere, on the roads, covering cars and buildings and in your clothes, and probably...

A volcanic eruption in Spain’s Canary Islands could last three months, experts have said. The Canary Islands Volcanology Institute said on Wednesday that the...

Authorities have warned people on the island of La Palma of fresh dangers after a new volcanic vent blew open and rivers of unstoppable...

The desperation of those in Afghanistan is heart-rending. It’s in the faces of those who sit for hours with their children and their suitcases...