Sixty survivors were taken to a centre on Lampedusa following the disaster - with the Italian Red Cross saying four needed hospital treatment.

ROME (AP) — A boat carrying nearly 100 migrants capsized Wednesday in international waters off the Italian island of ...

At least 26 migrants died Wednesday when two boats sank off the coast of Italy's Lampedusa island, with around 10 others still missing, the coastguard and UN officials said. Around 60 people were ...

The newly discovered evidence of Black Africans' descendants living in early Anglo-Saxon era Britain comes from DNA tests (carried out as part of a mainly Anglo-German study) on two 7th century ...

As the second-largest importer of gas in Europe, the country sources natural gas from Azerbaijan, Algeria, Libya and other nations.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday that several migrants died in a boat accident off ...

At least 26 people died in a migrant shipwreck off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday and 60 were brought ashore, the coastguard said, adding that the death toll was still ...

At least 20 people died in a migrant shipwreck off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday and a U.N. agency said more could be missing as search operations were still underway.

A $900 million request for humanitarian assistance for Haitians, millions of whom are facing starvation, has received the ...