Finland officially joins NATO on Tuesday, becoming the 31st member of the world’s biggest military alliance – a step that Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said would make the region safer and the organisation stronger.

Channel ferry operators have laid on extra sailings in an effort to clear a backlog that has seen passengers travelling from the UK to France delayed for up to 16 hours. London’s Interior Minister Suella Braverman refuses to blame Brexit for the chaos.

India this month put 36 OneWeb satellites into orbit in a single mission that could see the subcontinent’s most powerful rocket challenge European rivals in the global commercial launch market.

On 1 April, Russia took up the presidency of the 15-nation UN Security Council. Ukraine’s foreign minister described the situation as “the worst joke ever for April Fool’s Day”.

A Mongolian boy born in the United Staes has been named by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the third most important spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism.

Roman Catholic leader Pope Francis left a Roman hospital on Saturday after three days of treatment for a lung infection. The pontiff smilingly assured wellwishers and journalists that he is “still alive”. He is 86 years old.

Indicted on Thursday, former US President Donald Trump will be booked and fingerprinted at a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday afternoon before appearing before a judge as the first-ever American president to face criminal charges. He is accused of atte…

Turkey’s parliament on Thursday ratified Finland’s application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle in the way of the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday his country wanted a “balanced relationship with China” shortly after he met with China’s President Xi Jinping. The Spanish leader’s two-day visit to China comes ahead of next week’s trip by French P…