Defence minister invokes mutual assistance article in Lisbon treaty for first time as warplanes bomb Islamic State targets in Syria.
Greece’s stock market has rallied since the country’s creditors reached an outline agreement on the latest bailout.
A project to turn the handwritten signs of the city’s rough sleepers into fonts is raising funds for a foundation that cares for the homeless.
Once notorious Medellin, Colombia’s second city, is being held up as an example of how urban dynamics can be changed.
Doctors of animal and human medicine are increasingly sharing their disciplines’ findings. Jon Henley reports.
Citizens in Greece have forged ingenious new economic models to survive by pulling together and selling necessities such a vegetables at cost price.
The website Olive Oil Times reported last month that two Spanish businesspeople had been sentenced to two years in prison.
A book by the late Nigerian activist’s daughter details the truth of life with Ken.
As the protagonist in a looming global crisis, her critics say she is simply not up to the challenge.
So who will be on the list of accomplished criminals now that Osama Bin Laden is dead?
Twenty-two years after his first appearance, Inspector Kurt Wallander is working his last case.
Weil’s disease, believed to have caused the death of Olympic gold medal-winning rower Andy Holmes, is the acute human form of a bacterial infection.
Michael Pollan is desperate to end our addiction to processed food. <b>Jon Henley</b> hears why.
"You’ll have a laugh with me," he promised on his Facebook page. "But it will end in tears. It always does." It hasn’t yet, though.
Roman Polanski’s arrest on a 32-year-old charge of having sex with a minor has outraged the French government and film community, reports Jon Henley.
It’s quite easy, wandering around the small town of Billund, to start believing in the existence of a Lego god.
Spilling out of their school in Saint-Ouen, north of Paris, they are so keen to get a word in that, on a bitter afternoon, they are queuing up on the pavement to march. Most are…
Director Wim Wenders tells Jon Henley how he came to make the film Buena Vista Social Club.
