The Pentagon will more than double the number of fighter jets it is sending to a Nato air policing mission in the Baltics as part of Washington’s response to the Ukraine crisis, officials have said.

Copies of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl and other books about the Holocaust victim have been vandalized in Tokyo public libraries since the end of January.

Gunmen opened fire on the home of the German ambassador in Greece last night, with anti-terror police recovering more 60 bullets from the scene.

It was an unparalleled modern genocide, an attempt to exterminate an entire people in 100 days. And in the years that followed the killing of some 800,000 Rwandans in 1994, political leaders have expressed their regret at an international failure to stop the violence.

Fighting political corruption, economic injustice and catastrophic climate change are the issues that matter most to people worldwide in the largest global poll ever carried out, it is revealed this weekend.

Bill Gates has said there will be “almost no poor countries by 2035”, and that child mortality rates in the poorest nations will plummet to the same levels as in the US and UK in 1980.

Women could achieve equal representation in parliaments across the world in less than 20 years, a new study has predicted.

The 85 richest people on the planet have accumulated as much wealth between them as half of the world’s population, political and financial leaders have been warned ahead of their annual gathering in the Swiss resort of Davos.

Britain and the US have threatened to withdraw support from the Syrian rebels unless they attend forthcoming peace talks, a senior member of the opposition to Bashar al-Assad's regime has claimed.

Russia has made a “big miscalculation” in occupying Crimea, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned.