Burma's junta has refused to allow visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to meet jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Ky...

The Supreme Court of Honduras has rejected a request by the Organisation of American States to reinstate President Manuel Zel...

The number of pensioners filing for bankruptcy has almost tripled in the past five years, according to research based on Inso...

The main political parties have held their last rallies ahead of elections in Bulgaria on Sunday, with the issue of governmen...

Three children and three adults have died after a fire swept through a tower block in south-east London.A three-week-old baby...

Staff at the British Embassy in Tehran are to go on trial accused of encouraging unrest following last month's election chaos...

The former US Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, has announced she is resigning as Alaska's governor.She ha...

Violence in Somalia is being fuelled by foreign Islamist fighters who are joining local rebel groups that want to impose Shar...

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has urged Burma's military authorities to free the jailed opposition leader Aung San S...

London Fire Brigade spokesman Tim Chidley has said a fire which broke out in a block of flats in Camberwell is now under cont...