Crisis

Amid chaos, Newsweek's Janine di Giovanni tells the human stories of those caught up in Syria's war.

The announcements follow calls by Angela Merkel for European countries to open their borders.

Importers of paper have been unable to pay foreign suppliers, leading to shortages.

Several thousand migrants, many of them hungry and sick, are adrift in boats in Southeast Asian seas and governments of the region must rescue them quickly to avert a "massive humanitarian crisis," the U.N. says.

The socially conscious bottling plant is located in the very parched town of Merced, California.

Saudade, the peculiarly Portuguese sense of nostalgia, dominates Vítor Gonçalves's story.

Radical views and the use of symbols echoing Nazi emblems have caused alarm in the West and Russia.

The protest will go on despite Navalny's recent imprisonment meaning he can't attend.

Leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France agree a deal to end fighting in Ukraine.

UNICEF is launching its largest appeal for funds ever to help children at risk from crises such as the Ebola outbreak and fighting in Syria and Ukraine.

A ceasefire between government forces and the separatists was agreed last September but has failed to take hold.

Fighting over continued to rage near Donetsk, with separatist forces seizing control of the ruined airport.

The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told his cabinet Belarus should only accept hard currency from Russia

An estimated 13 people per day were being killed in Ukraine, violating the ceasefire agreement signed in September

Nabil has lost his arm, his wife, two daughters, two sons, two brothers and six other family members

Ed Miliband is facing fresh pressure after a poll revealed a fall in support from supporters of his own party

Pope Francis was not always as unorthodox as now. In fact, for 50 years he was known as an autocratic hardliner, until a moment of crisis changed his world view

A senior aide to Ukrainian president Poroshenko said a large Russian military convoy had been heading for the border on Friday but had stopped after an appeal by Kiev to Russia

Matteo Renzi is failing to rescue sluggish Italy from second recession in six years

Turkey is struggling to manage the influx of refugees from Syria's three-year war, and the hospitality of locals is starting to wear thin

From high-end tourism to one of the world's most ambitious engineering projects, strange things are happening at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, which could still kill plenty of people

Bankers behind the subprime collapse are lucky Congress and the White House refused to call in the one man who knows how to nail them

Robert Levinson's family says the bureau sabotaged his release from Iran