The UK will not to take back asylum seekers who cross the border into Ireland "until the EU accepts that we can send them back to France", according to a government source.

A British tourist seriously injured in a shark attack off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago is "aware of what is happening and can communicate", according to his wife.

Demonstrators protested in London on Sunday against the death sentence imposed on a rapper by a court in Iran.

The production is slick, the pundits are sharp and the players are gods.

A Russian man has been arrested after two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany.

Pope Francis has made his first trip out of Rome for seven months with a visit to Venice where he asked worshippers to "pray for me".