Europe’s generous welfare states are coming under increasing strain as weak economic growth collides with rising demands on government budgets, particularly from aging populations.

The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the Gaza Strip. Satellite photos offer some sense of the destruction in the territory.

Researchers uncovered a 13,000-year-old sandstone model in France’s Ségognole 3 rock shelter, possibly the world’s oldest 3D ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk took over the presidency of the Council of the European Union. On taking office, Tusk made ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black ...

Ukraine captured a chunk of the Russian border region of Kursk after a daring cross-border attack in August. They have held onto some of that territory ever since, though advancing Russian forces ...

Few games truly captured the impact and importance of the first World War, but these titles managed to do the oft-forgotten ...

When Britons voted to leave the European Union in 2016, UK passports no longer gave holders the right to travel freely around Europe. In short, Brexit actually changed the identity of UK citizens: ...

on the first trading day after Russian gas stopped flowing to Europe via Ukraine. Freezing temperatures across the north of the region pushed prices up on Thursday morning with a backdrop of ...

Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for Russia's foreign minister, said it "not only weakens Europe's economic potential ... Vladimir Putin meets with the media after a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian ...