Three men have been arrested after the deaths of five people including a seven year old girl who were attempting to cross the English Channel.

   Police in Australia have launched a manhunt for former soap opera star Orpheus Pledger after he failed to appear in court to face charges of assault.

   Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, a frontier town along the border with Myanmar, is a harrowing window into a civil war that has suddenly escalated.

   A US woman has become the first person in the world to undergo a pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically implanted.

   Shipping traffic through the vital Suez Canal artery in Egypt has plunged by since cargo was forced to divert due to attacks on vessels, according to official figures.

   In his prison cell, drug lord Adolfo ’Fito’ Macias lived like a king. Then one day, he vanished.

   Skies over Athens have turned an orange hue as clouds of dust have blown across the Mediterranean Sea from the Sahara desert.

   Plenty of people have died on small boats trying to cross the Channel. But this was different.

   A far right German politician will continue to run in the upcoming European parliamentary elections despite allegations that his advisor was spying for China.

   Police in Australia have arrested seven teenagers who posed an unacceptable risk and threat to the community in the wake of the stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church.