Kieran Kelly

Joe Biden warned Syria's leading rebel group against working with Islamic State terrorists in secret messages exchanged during the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Cartoons such as Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol prevent women from going into construction and road maintenance as they perpetuate gender stereotypes, a Spanish MP has said.

New York police have filed a murder charge against the man suspected of assassinating healthcare executive Brian Thompson.

Syria was on the brink of a fresh round of conflict on Tuesday as Turkish-backed fighters advanced on the Kurdish-majority city of Kobane.

Crying men and women have rushed to the Damascus hospital morgue in search of their missing relatives who disappeared during the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad

Pro-democracy activist who opposed Nicolás Maduro is feared to be detained in a torture centre in Caracas

A Bristol University graduate and former Institute of Economic Affairs intern has been kidnapped by the Venezuelan authorities , according to the British think tank.

Hamas has reportedly agreed to allow Israeli troops to remain in Gaza in a major about-turn that could unblock a hostage deal.

A woman who lied about being raped by three lacrosse players when she attended Duke University has admitted making up the story for the first time.

Judges in Avignon are due to deliver their verdict in the mass rape case of Gisèle Pélicot, the French pensioner whose ex-husband invited more than 70 strangers to rape her in their Provence home as she lay drugged unconscious.