A Greek-Canadian woman has drowned after being dragged by a strong current near a waterfall in Quebec, Canada.

Britain will be getting its first Greek Orthodox secondary school in September 2013.

Spain and France came under intense pressure from the European Commission on Friday to deepen their deficit cuts as anxiety mounted over Greece’s ability to stay in the euro zone.

Albert Einstein’s complete archives – from personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers to notebooks scribbled with his groundbreaking research – are going online for the first

The Toulouse shooting suspect, Mohamed Merah, has died after police stormed his flat, ending a 32-hour siege.

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta confirmed this week that capital punishment was on the table under the US military code for the rogue sniper who last week killed 16 Afghanis.

The international criminal court has delivered the first verdict in its ten-year history, finding a Congolese warlord guilty of recruiting child soldiers.

The Russian presidential election last Sunday was “clearly skewed” in favour of Vladimir Putin.

Syria has again refused to allow aid into the destroyed suburb of Homs amid mounting evidence of human rights abuses.

China’s single child policy was once a source of pride to government planners.