Hungary has launched an investigation into the case of a suspected former Nazi collaborator who may have been involved in genocide during the Second World War, authorities said today.

A helicopter carrying two pilots and 12 passengers crashed and sank in the Baltic Sea off the Estonian coast today.

Grieving parents are preparing for a mass burial today of at least 27 schoolchildren in the Philippines who died after eating cassava – a root that’s poisonous if not prepared properly.

An American missionary held hostage by Muslim extremists for 377 days has returned to the Philippines under tight security to testify against her abductors.

A bomb exploded today at a crowded market, killing at least 13 people, in the latest deadly attack in the southern Philippines, officials said.

Finnish investigators today said a quiet, young chemistry student was behind a deadly bomb blast at a busy shopping mall outside Helsinki.

POLICE probing Finland's worst peacetime bomb attack have found material for making bombs at the home of the only suspect, a chemistry student who was among the seven killed by the blast, investigators said on Sunday.

Seven people died and 80 were injured after a bomb ripped through a crowded shopping mall near Helsinki.

THE heartbroken mother of brutally-slain 22-year-old Séamus O’Toole said yesterday the family was devastated on hearing of their “lovely” son’s tragic death.