Turkey warns it will take any necessary measure to protect itself after two car bombs exploded in a town on its border with Syria.

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Picnicking on the graves of lost loved ones

Twin car bombs kill at least 43 people and injure at least 100 in the Turkish town of Reyhanli, near the Syrian border.

An illegal immigrant in Italy has gone on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan, killing a passer-by and wounding four others, police say.

The chancellor says the G7 group of industrialised nations have agreed there needs to be collective action to target tax evasion and avoidance.

The new Star Wars film is to be made in the UK in what Chancellor George Osborne is hailing as a coup for British tax breaks.

Gas-powered ferries come to the Baltic

Three species of migratory ducks are shifting their wintering grounds northwards in response to warmer early winter temperatures, say scientists.

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British prime minister David Cameron has said the international community must do more to "help shape" a transitional government in Syria, after holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Prime Minister David Cameron says the international community must do more to "help shape" a transitional government in Syria after holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A revision by the Office for National Statistics to construction industry data has cast doubt on whether the UK entered a double-dip recession last year.

An opera written by composer Jonathan Harvey about Richard Wagner is to be partly performed in Pali, the 2,000-year-old language spoken by Buddha.

Why Turkish peace with PKK may worry Iran and Syria

A fire on a freight train carrying chemical substances in Russia injures dozens of people and forces hundreds more to be evacuated.

Losses at International Airlines Group balloon in the first quarter due to its troubled Spanish carrier Iberia.

Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev already held extreme views when he visited Russia last year, Islamists in Dagestan tell US media.

Austrian film-maker Michael Haneke wins the 50,000 euro (£40,000) Prince of Asturias award for his "relentless, personal exposure of reality".

A joint investigation by the UK, the US and Australia to identify those using offshore tax havens to hide their wealth has uncovered more than 100 people.