Pope Francis has condemned the “cult of money”, saying that the economic crisis had made life worse for millions in rich and poor countries.

David Cameron is facing a new Conservative rebellion over Europe as his MPs challenge his authority by renewing their demands for a referendum.

Hull's promotion party in serious danger as they extend their winless streak to three games with defeat at Barnsley

Jesuit priest emphatically denies being denounced by Jorge Mario Bergoglio

After his epic trilogy, Spain's spellbinder returns with a Madrid tale of love, death and misunderstanding.

The tiny northeast Indian state of Meghalaya has a special fascination for interesting and sometimes controversial names

On the face of it an air drop of hundreds of teddy bears does not seem like the most serious breach of national security, but that has not stopped a Belarusian border guard being sentenced to two years in prison in a maximum security prison for failing to report the 'invasion'.

Lino Oviedo, who died in a helicopter crash on 2 February at the age of 69, was a Paraguayan presidential candidate who helped the lead the 1989 coup that overthrew the former dictator Alfredo Stroessner. A retired general known as a dynamic public speaker – and the country's most controversial politician – Oviedo was running in the April presidential election in the impoverished and politically unstable South American country.

A Tunisian opposition party leader who criticised the Islamist-led government and violence by radical Muslims was shot dead outside his home today, officials said.

The fall of Chile's military leader has been turned into an Oscar-nominated movie starring Gael Garcia Bernal

Polls too close to call as Park Geun-hye bids to become country's first female leader

One in four out of work in Spain

A superb study in the savagery of Soviet invasion and occupation of the Eastern bloc

A landslide at a gold mine in a remote corner of northeast Congo has left at least 60 people dead, a local administrator said today.