Party leaders and candidates are making a last-ditch pitch for votes on the final day of campaigning before the general election polls open.

Dozens of migrants drown in the Mediterranean after a boat sinks south of Italy's island of Sicily, the Save the Children aid group says.

Nearly 3,700 migrants rescued in several operations in the Mediterranean Sea, Italian coastguard says

The Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to a girl, Kensington Palace has announces.

Inevitably search engines such as Google will be allowed in public examinations, including GCSEs and A-Levels, the head of an exam board says.

An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control, an official said yesterday.

Suspected extremists being investigated in Italy over links to al-Qaeda may have been planning an attack on the Vatican in 2010, prosecutors say.

At least 14 migrants are killed after being hit by a train on a well-trodden route across Macedonia to Western Europe, police say.

More than 40 people have drowned off Sicily as Italy calls for more help from the EU to handle the surge in migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views has been shot dead in the capital Kiev.

The second black box from the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps last week has been found after a nine-day search,

A Turkish prosecutor and two gunmen who took him hostage have been killed after a shootout at a courthouse in Istanbul

The co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings plane, Andreas Lubitz, had received treatment for suicidal tendencies before getting his pilot license

A cockpit voice recorder badly damaged when a German jetliner smashed into an Alpine mountainside and a crucial two-minute span when the pilot lost contact are vital clues into what caused the plane to go down, killing all 150 people on board

Two men were killed and more than 10 were wounded after gunmen burst into a pub firing automatic weapons in a suspected gang-

Serbian police yesterday detained seven people suspected of taking part in the 1995 Bosnian Srebrenica massacre, in the first arrests by

Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are sentenced to jail in Italy for one year and eight months for tax evasion

Prince Harry announces on Tuesday that he is to leave the British army after 10 years' service that has seen him fight on the front line twice in Afghanistan

Swedish prosecutors want to question Julian Assange in London over allegations of sexual assault, potentially ending an impasse that

The killing of Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov within sight of the Kremlin has exposed rarely seen tensions between different