Seventy years since the Nazi defeat at Stalingrad

Eight of Notre Dame Cathedral's nine new bells have been blessed by French Cardinal Andre Armand Vingt-Trois.

Turkey's extreme-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front says it carried out a suicide attack on the US embassy in Ankara on Friday.

Turkey's extreme-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front says it carried out a suicide attack on the US embassy in Ankara on Friday.

Turkey's extreme-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front says it carried out a suicide attack on the US embassy in Ankara on Friday.

Around one hundred different foreign languages are spoken by those living in England and Wales, according to the latest census results, and Polish is the most widely spoken.

The French National Assembly approves a crucial article of a bill on legalising same-sex marriage after months of public protests and counter-protests.

The French National Assembly approves a crucial article of a bill on legalising same-sex marriage after months of public protests and counter-protests.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy denies allegation that he and other governing party members received secret payments, and vows not to resign.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy denies allegation that he and other governing party members received secret payments, and vows not to resign.

A man once considered Sweden's worst serial killer has won retrials for three murders after withdrawing confessions made in the 1990s.

Sasha Marsden, the teenager found dead in a Blackpool alleyway, was stabbed in the head before attempts were made to set her on fire, police say.

Massachusetts senator John Kerry has been sworn as US Secretary of State at a private ceremony in Washington DC.

The number of seabirds killed after coming into contact with an oily substance is still rising, the RSPB has said.

The Ministry of Justice is suspending a firm supplying meat to prisons after tests found its halal products may have had pork DNA traces.

Attempts to cut youth unemployment in England are being hampered by excessive bureaucracy and central government control, council leaders say.

A quarter of a million Twitter users have had their accounts compromised in the latest of a string of high-profile internet security breaches.

Five men plead not guilty to the rape and murder of a student in a Delhi bus in December, in a case which caused outrage across India.

He's half his height and a third of his age, but budding diver Oscar Piper is already hoping to become the next Tom Daley.

Two senior Australian cabinet ministers announce surprise resignations, only days after Prime Minister Julia Gillard called early elections.