Ukraine's president has vowed "never" to use force "against peaceful protests"

The US state department has said it is considering all options, including sanctions, towards Ukraine as the political crisis there continues.

It follows attempts by riot police to dislodge...

Pope Francis has been named Person of the...

Eighty percent of Gaza's population is dependant on international aid

European auditors say the EU should stop paying the salaries of thousands of Palestinian civil servants in the Gaza Strip who are not going to work.

The auditors examined about 1bn euros (£840m; $1.3bn) of EU ...

The masks were sold on Monday

A charity which bought 24 sacred Native American masks at a controversial Paris auction is to return them to the Hopi and Apache tribes in the US.

The US-based Annenberg Foundation said it had spent a total of $530,000 (£322,000; 385,000 euros) at ...

Judith Spiegel said she had "no idea" if a ransom had been paid

A Dutch couple freed after months in captivity in Yemen said they received good treatment from their kidnappers.

Speaking to reporters at Sanaa airport before boarding a flight home, Dutch journalist Judith Spiegel...