Scenes of chaos awaited European Union staff due to start arriving on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios today to begin processing asylum seekers.

The investigation into last week's bombings in Belgium extended farther across Europe after Italian police arrested a new suspect.

Fausto Mottalini, 65, is out to tell the world that a human being can live with a few simple things: food, shelter and above all, uncontaminated nature.

A top European security official warned yesterday that the threat of Isis (Islamic State) attacks is greater than previous assessments.

The final resting place of England's greatest king is somewhere under the asphalt of the car park of a leisure centre in his capital, Winchester.

Survivors tell of chaos and confusion after attacks on the 'Washington of Europe'.

Last week counterterrorism officials and experts gathered in Brussels for a conference on a threat quietly gathering in the city around them.

Erme says the locals' united stand has gone some way to alleviate the climate of fear that once existed, and the violence once demonstrated so publicly by the mob.

Hollande urged the people of Britain not to leave. "I don't want to scare you," he said, "but there will be consequences if the UK decides to leave the EU."

There's a certain level of chaos in the small beachside writing shed where Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas spent a good amount of time.

Tourists packing cheap new camera drones for tours of Germany might want to leave them behind

Depending on who you ask, it's either the perfect testing site, or a terrible one.

European Council President Donald Tusk has set out a plan for keeping Britain in the European Union to a mixed reception.

Family of murdered Swedish refugee worker blame migration crisis for her death as police warn they cannot cope with rising violence.

There are reports police are using water cannons on board the ship in an attempt to get the refugess to leave.

Germany has begun confiscating money and jewellery from refugees to pay for the cost of their stay, in a practice the UN says contributes to xenophobia.

Need a helicopter? Soon you can Uber it.

Looking back at economies impacted from major world events in 2015.

In a castle in Scotland, Kevin Pilley quaffs mead in the search of a new coiffure.

Mancunian Steve McCabe revisits his hometown and finds a cosmopolitan city has sprung up among the dark satanic mills.

McDonald's may have unfairly exploited a pact with Luxembourg to avoid tax on hundreds of millions of euros in profits for more than half a decade.

For Berliner Anke Seemann, Germany's energy transformation is the chance to exercise her green conscience.

In one region in Italy, some are rethinking the future of tourism, writes Venetia Sherson.

Paul Rush, a roving hobbit, discovers the true meaning of the 'craic' in the west of Ireland.

Olly Grant steps into the past at Guedelon, built using strictly medieval methods.

Farrah has a nose for divine earthy truffles buried deep in the Bordeaux soil. Catherine Masters meets a talented collie.

As the world tries to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and combat climate change, policymakers have pinned hopes on electric cars.

On a fine Croatian island, Winston Aldworth learns of local claims to a great traveller.

Ireland is about to get a new biggest company, and it's only a little smaller than the nation's entire economy.

With Mads and Borge in harness, Grant Bradley is in safe paws gliding through the pine forests above the Arctic Circle.