Europe

US Vice President JD Vance has announced a surprise visit to Greenland this week, saying the US believes it can take the autonomous territory in ‘a different direction’. 

US and Russian officials are reportedly discussing a narrow proposal for a ceasefire at sea in the hope it could lead to wider peace talks on Ukraine.

Just four days after his arrest in a pre-dawn raid by hundreds of police, the powerful and popular opposition mayor was on Sunday stripped of his title and shipped off to Silivri prison on the mega-city’s western outskirts.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump may have had more phone calls than has been reported, the Kremlin has admitted.

Ahead of ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited soldiers near a front-line Ukrainian city.

As the UK and its European allies ramp up their defence spending, Prince William has spent two days with British troops based in Estonia.

Russia and Ukraine are trading accusations that the other is responsible for blowing up a major European gas pumping supply station in an act of provocation.

Flights in and out of Heathrow are set to resume after a fire caused a power outage, shutting down Europe's busiest airport for a day with continuing worldwide flow-on effects.

Vladimir Putin has sent a message to Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry on her appointment as International Olympic Committee president as Russia seeks to have it’s Olympic ban lifted.

A diver has had a near-death encounter with an octopus that decided to fight back after being poked with a stick. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of having “effectively rejected” proposals for a ceasefire following a barrage of strikes on civilian infrastructure.

If you’re worried that there are no more towns in Italy left selling homes for the price of a litre of fuel, don’t be.

The White House claims Ukraine-Russia peace has ‘never been closer' as President Donald Trump prepared to pick up the phone and call President Vladimir Putin to discuss three major points.

Military chiefs from the ‘coalition of the willing’ will meet in London this week to discuss plans for a Western peacekeeping force to be deployed to Ukraine.

Pope Francis did not appear at the window to greet children gathered in his honour, but has released his first photo since his hospitalisation for double pneumonia.