Russia has blocked a draft statement by the UN Security Council condemning Syria over a deadly mortar attack which killed...

A mission to photograph all 210,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the UK has come to an end. The...

Natural England has issued the second licence allowing farmers to shoot badgers under measures designed to control bovine TB. The...

Social media company Facebook Inc reported on Thursday it reached the 1 billion user mark last month, while Chief Executive...

President Barack Obama's backers scrambled to keep his edge in the presidential race on Thursday after rival Mitt Romney's aggressive...

GCHQ director Iain Lobban, has said there were "enduring lessons" to be drawn from the work of Alan Turing. In...

By Tayfun Kesgin According to an ancient Japanese legend, there was once a single peoples living in the steppes of...

The Turkish Parliament is voting on an abrupt motion that will allow the government necessary military retaliation against Syria after...

In a letter to the UN Human Rights Committee a Swiss NGO has criticised a failure of the Bosnian authorities...

NATO demanded an immediate halt to "aggressive acts" against alliance member Turkey on Wednesday after a mortar strike launched from...