(Reuters) - Snow and freezing temperatures grounded flights across northern Europe on Tuesday, while retailers fretted they would struggle to make up sales lost due to bad weather with just four shopping days to Christmas.

The government will announce later a cap on the number of skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area allowed into the UK.

KABUL — Children may be safer in the Afghan capital than in London or Glasgow despite a deadly nine-year Taliban insurgency, NATO’s top civilian representative in the country has said.

A series of bombings and mortar attacks targeting Christians have killed at least three people in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, security sources say.

Rwanda has threatened to withdraw co-operation with the UN if a draft report criticising its army is published. Kigali said it would reconsider its contributions to UN peacekeeping missions, dismissing claims in the UN report as...

Detectives searching for a missing British spy said Wednesday they had launched a murder investigation after a body matching the man’s description was discovered stuffed in a bag in his apartment near the headquarters of the MI6 spy agency. An...

Britain faces a ’significant’ risk of sliding back into recession, a key policymaker at the Bank of England revealed today. Warning that the central bank’s growth forecast for this year and next may be too optimistic, BoE Monetary...

A child rapist has allegedly been stamped to death in his prison cell by a fellow inmate. Robert Coello, 44, who was serving a sentence for sexually assaulting a minor, was found with head injuries in his cell in G wing of HMP Grendon in...

A Gallup World Poll survey has found that The Netherlands is the happiest country in the world. They surveyed thousands of respondents in 155 countries, between 2005 and 2009, in order to measure two types of well-being.

A family has suffered a heartbreaking double tragedy with two brothers hanging themselves within four months of each other. Damien Banks, 21, was found at his Birmingham home on Monday morning, yards from the spot where his 16-year-old brother Dale was...