UK Telegraph (International News)

Police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters around Brazil as demonstrations continued their collective cry against the low-quality public services they receive in exchange for high taxes and rising prices.

Telegraph photojournalist David Rose documents the front line in Aleppo

Michelle Obama, the US first lady, and daughters Malia and Sasha visited key sites of Germany's troubled past, walking through the Holocaust Memorial and laying flowers for those killed at the Berlin Wall.

Gyula Horn, the former Hungarian prime minister credited as one of the communist leaders who helped bring down the Iron Curtain in 1989, has died aged 80.

Marine Le Pen faces prosecution for comparing Muslim immigration to the Nazi occupation of France after the European Parliament?s legal committee recommended that the far-right leader be stripped of parliamentary immunity.

First new heavy weapons arrive in Syria following Obama's decision to put Western military might behind the official opposition, rebels say.

An Italian court has rejected an attempt by Silvio Berlusconi to strike down a conviction he received last year for tax fraud.

A representative of Edward Snowden, who exposed US surveillance programmes, has held informal talks with Icelandic officials to sound out the possibility of the country granting asylum to him, the prime minister has said.

A representative of Edward Snowden, who exposed US surveillance programmes, has held informal talks with Icelandic officials to sound out the possibility of the country granting asylum to him, the prime minister has said.

Barack Obama has defended the US National Security Agency's surveillance programmes, insisted that American authorities are not "rifling" through citizens' emails.

As a bead of sweat twinkled on the president's brow, Barack Obama shrugged off his jacket mid-speech with the words: "We can be a little more informal among friends."

Attempts to talk to the Taliban have been "clouded, confused and characterised by wishful thinking", according to a report, as doubts continued to surround the beginning of negotiations.

Troops from Brazil's specialist police force have been deployed to five states, the ministry of justice announced, as another night of protests took place across the country.

A suspected member of the notorious Pink Panther gang of international jewel thieves has been arrested near Paris, according to police sources.

The fashion designers Dolce and Gabbana have been found guilty by an Italian court of tax evasion on an epic scale and each sentenced to 20 months in prison.

Serena Williams has issued a qualified apology to the 16-year-old victim of an infamous US rape case after she was quoted implying that the girl bore some responsibility for the attack as she was drunk.

Country singer Slim Whitman, who had a massive hit in England with Rose Marie, dies at the age of 89.

Two Buddhist monks who allegedly organised acts of child sexual abuse have been arrested by Thai police, the latest controversy to hit a clergy struggling with challenges to its clean-living image.

A former South African ambassador to Israel has invited the fury of the Israeli government by describing its treatment of the country's Palestinian Bedouin community as akin to apartheid.

Al-Qaeda detonated a pick-up truck full of explosives outside a major United Nations office in Somalia, before a dozen gunmen fought their way into the compound and launched a 90-minute battle.

Hamid Karzai has plunged Afghan peace talks into doubt by threatening to boycott the process unless militants end their violence and the US pull out of negotiations, in protest at the raising of the Taliban flag over their office in Qatar.

British tourists like to be called by their first names", Brazilians are "easily tactile", Italians are "impatient" and the Spanish constantly on the "lookout for freebies".

The Syrian civil war has pushed the number of refugees and those displaced by conflict to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide, the United Nations refugee agency reported yesterday.

A decision to replace the Australian accent of Mad Max with an American twang in the video game adaptation of the famous film starring Mel Gibson has angered outback residents and local gamers.

As Britons lament the prospect of another washout summer, it is Alaskans who are enjoying a rare heatwave.