On Friday, Paolo Paiva waited in a hotel near Caracas airport, nervous but giddy with excitement to be reunited with her brother, finally.

The Syrian presidency has announced it's assembling a special taskforce to try to stop nearly a week of sectarian clashes in the southern Druze city of Sweida.

Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire, the US ambassador to Turkey has said.

Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch, two Wall Street Journal reporters and the publication's owner, News Corp.

The sister of a man who drowned in Portugal has said he died while trying to save his best friend in the water.

A new state of emergency has been declared in Trinidad and Tobago after authorities accused a criminal network of plotting to kill government officials and attack public institutions.

After years of protest, promised action, and bill increases, it would be reasonable to expect the sewage scandal to have improved. 

Three people have been killed after a "horrific incident" at a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department training facility.

Dozens of Russian spies have been sanctioned by the government - including those responsible for targeting Yulia Skripal five years before her attempted murder in Salisbury.

Antarctica's oldest ice has arrived in the UK for analysis which scientists hope will reveal more about Earth's climate shifts.

By the time Hannah Hampton appeared in the news conference, the England goalkeeper was relieved, ecstatic and wanting to share this night far and wide.

England beat Sweden in a dramatic penalty shootout to keep hopes alive of defending their UEFA Women's Euros title.

Felix Baumgartner, the extreme athlete who once jumped from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding crash in Italy.

The body of Matthew Hall, the British hiker who went missing in the Italian Alps, has been found according to local officials.

Women's marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been provisionally suspended after a positive doping test.

Israel has said it "deeply regrets" three deaths at Gaza's only Catholic church, adding that a "stray ammunition" hit the building.

Syria's president has said protecting the rights of the Druze population is "our priority" after Israel warned it would destroy forces attacking the minority.

Sixty-one people have died in a fire at a shopping centre in the eastern Iraq city of Kut.

A sex scandal has rocked Thailand's Buddhist clergy after a woman allegedly enticed a string of monks into having sex with her and then blackmailed them.

A huge fire has destroyed the main stage of a major festival in Belgium - two days before it was due to begin.