France's National Front may be defeated in the regional elections as an opinion poll showed tactical voting will keep it from power in two main target regions.

Greece has only fingerprinted around 121,000 of the almost 500,000 people who arrived there between July 20 and November 30 this year, according to the European Commission.

The 3,200 impoverished residents of Saricicek, in south east Turkey, have become rich almost overnight after selling off pieces of the meteorite that crashed into their village in September.

Iraqi forces paraded rockets made from gas canisters (pictured) through the besieged city and laid out hundreds of explosive shells after a breakthrough battle against the terror group

Salman Khan, 49, has had his culpable homicide conviction quashed on appeal after he was found guilty of running over a homeless man while driving drunk in his Toyota Land Cruiser.

The German town of Freital is on the brink after 2,200 refugees moved into the town. Anti-immigration protesters have staged demos outside the 35 euros a night Hotel Leonardo holding 400.

The images, which include militants using handheld rocket launchers and automatic weapons, were reportedly taken during a battle at Deir Ezzor military airport in Syria.

North Korean watchers said today there has been a noticeable increase in the number of residents in the capital, Pyongyang, who have become dog owners in the past three to four years.

Soviet-era hero Nikolay Belyaev was the last survivor of the feared 3rd Shock Army troops who spearheaded the taking of the German capital.

German police have arrested five people including the victim's 15-year-old son after a woman died in a Frankfurt Hotel room. A post-mortem found that the woman suffocated but was badly beaten before death.

Beate Zschaepe, 40, claimed she did not have any involvement in the murders of ten people, which she blamed on her former friends who killed themselves in 2011 in a statement to a court in Munich today.

This is the hilarious moment when Ivan Zvonimir Cicak's trousers fell around his ankles as he was receiving an award from Croatia's president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic in Zagreb.

The Eagles of Death Metal made a clearly emotional return to the Bataclan venue where 90 people were murdered last month during an ISIS attack in Paris.

Five other migrants, including a 12-year-old boy, were rescued from the sea off the Turkish resort of Cesme, and were found floating in lifejackets.

Mimicking the actions of ISIS extremists who have murdered hundreds on camera, the Levant Front rebels aimed their guns at the fanatics' heads, only to spare their lives at the very last moment.

The victims all suffered smoke inhalation after a fire was deliberately started at the building in Altenburg in eastern Germany.

Beijing's pollution crisis appears to have spawned a new fashion trend with dozens of residents seen walking the smog-ridden streets wearing playfully designed face masks.

Readers of Norwegian paper Aftenposten were shocked to read an obituary for the man in red, which was published in the country's second-highest selling paper this week.

The National Front topped the country's regional election vote on Sunday in a breakthrough that shakes up the political landscape in France.

In the quiet Finnish town of Kempele, tension between locals and asylum seekers has reached breaking point, after the rape of a schoolgirl, 14, two weeks after a hostel opened and a refugee charged.