Explosions were heard in Saudi Arabia's capital, including a large blast at Riyadh's international airport, where flights were subsequently halted.

Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores have been charged by US authorities with conspiracy to commit torture in a new superseding indictment.

Lithuania is no stranger to the threat posed by Russia given its geography and history.

Russia has denied that a second case of an infectious disease has emerged where a woman who worked at a laboratory died last week.

A school employee was killed and two others were injured after a knife attack in Poland - the second such incident in the country in two days

A junior Royal Navy serviceman accused of plotting to leak classified information to Russia has appeared in court.

The UK government said it will retain its presence in East Jerusalem as Israel insisted the British consulate in the city had "ceased to function".

The population of a penguin colony that was previously the largest in the world has fallen by almost two-thirds, a new study has revealed - with climate change thought to be a major reason for the decline. 

A Texas death row inmate has been put to death by lethal injection - despite objections following Christa Pike's botched execution last week.