A large car bomb has hit a riot police headquarters in Cizre, south-east Turkey, killing eight policemen and injuring 70.

Italy has declared a state of emergency in the regions worst hit by Wednesday's earthquake as hopes of finding more survivors fade.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck central Italy, leaving at least 13 people dead and others trapped under rubble, Italian officials said.

Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a bid to win back the French presidency, announcing he will seek his party's nomination to run in next year's election.

Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a bid to win back the French presidency, announcing he will seek his party's nomination to run in next year's election.

Two explosions hit police stations in eastern Turkey, killing six people and wounding nearly 200 others, authorities said Thursday.

Strikes by Air France flight attendants in the last five days have led to 900 flights being cancelled and over 150,000 passengers affected through Sunday. 

Muslims have attended Catholic mass in churches around France in solidarity and sorrow following the brutal murder of a priest in an ISIL-linked attack.

The man who owns and operates the most-visited piracy site in the world – Kickass Torrents – has been arrested in Poland and is facing extradition to the USA.

When she visits Berlin this evening on her first foreign trip since becoming UK prime minister, the most pressing question Theresa May is likely to face from Angela Merkel will be how and when she intends to extract Britain from the European Union. “It’s up to Britain to make clear how it wants to structure its relationship with the EU in future,” Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert stressed, ahead of the visit, making it clear the onus was on Britain, not the EU, to make it work.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced a coup attempt as an "act of treason" and insisted his government remains in charge.

Italy's Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, has visited the site where at least 25 people died in a head-on collision between two passenger trains.

Many more people are injured and some are in a critical condition. Local authorities have appealed for people to give blood.

Mr Renzi has ordered an official investigation in to the crash, which happened on Tuesday morning.

Two trains have collided head on in southern Italy, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens of others. A spokesman for the fire brigade said the two passenger trains collided in the middle of an olive grove. Police said the accident happened on a single stretch of track between the towns of Corato and Andria.

A man has been arrested by Italian police investigating the killing of a Nigerian immigrant which the government has condemned as a racist attack.

Pope Francis has said that the Roman Catholic Church should apologise to gay people for the way it has treated them. He told reporters that the Church had no right to judge the gay community, and should show them respect. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for clear-headed negotiations with "close partner" Britain over its departure from the European Union, urging caution in the process.

The UK's EU referendum is proving close but the Remain campaign appears to be failing to pick up enough support outside London to win.

Rome is set to elect its first female mayor in a run-off vote in municipal elections.