Results from nearly all polling stations show that TV star Volodymyr Zelenskiy has won the Ukrainian presidential run-off vote in a landslide.

Flux is the permanent state of human affairs: Empires rise and fall, despots come and go, alliances are built only to fall apart, social norms once thought inviolable are thrown aside.

Nato's secretary-general has warned that the military alliance will respond to what it insists are Russia's violations of a key Cold War-era treaty - but will not station more nuclear missiles in Europe.

Every generation has a tiny coterie of sportsmen or women whose career is a persistent exercise in dominance.

Latest: Russia's ambassador in London Alexander Yakovenko suggested that the British Government was making allegations against Moscow as part of an "anti-Russian campaign" to divert attention from Brexit.

Nato's secretary-general has apologised to Turkey over military exercises in Norway during which Turkey's founding leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and the current president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, were reportedly depicted as "enemies".

Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has affirmed that the alliance will join the international coalition fighting Islamic State (IS) - but will not wage direct war against the extremists.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed the Netherlands in its diplomatic fight with Turkey as Nato's chief called for alliance members to respect each other and the European Union urged Turkey to calm down.

IT would not be surprising if Germany, a shining example of how to respond to the refugee crisis, was attacked by a zealot who reached that country a destitute supplicant dependent on a culture he opposed. 

Jean-Claude Juncker has been branded an "unelected tinpot figure" after warning there will be no further renegotiations should voters back Brexit.

Efforts to limit the amount of refugees seeking the shores of Europe are working, Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to bring terrorism "to its knees" following the suicide car bomb attack in the capital that killed at least 34 people and injured 125 others.

The Nato Maritime Group is being ordered immediately into the Aegean Sea to help end smuggling of migrants between Turkey and Greece, the secretary general said.

Turkey’s prime minister dismissed any suggestion Ankara should apologise for downing a Russian warplane in its airspace last week, after winning strong NATO support for the right to defend itself.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has described as a “stab in the back” the downing of a Russian fighter plane by Turkey.

NATO gave Turkey its full political support in fighting militants in Syria and Iraq at an emergency meeting but several nations urged Ankara not to undermine the Kurdish peace process by using excessive military force.

The head of Nato has spoken of his admiration for German chancellor Angela Merkel — particularly her capacity for drinking white wine.

Nato’s chief said that Russia had built up forces on the border with Ukraine and sent more military hardware into eastern Ukraine, enabling pro-Russia separatists to launch attacks with little warning if they chose.

French president Francois Hollande has said he is taking a new peace initiative to Ukraine alongside German chancellor Angela Merkel.

A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed into other planes on the ground during Nato training in Spain, killing at least 10 people.

It is nearly 17 years since terrorist zealots as evil — and as utterly wrong — as those who brought carnage to the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris on Wednesday inflicted an atrocity of similar scale, impact and immorality on the people of Omagh.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny says he is "shocked and appalled by the brutal and horrific killings" at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.

Nato member countries approved a new interim quick-reaction military force yesterday to protect themselves from Russia or other threats, the alliance’s chief said.

The US-led coalition has intensified its aerial bombardment of Islamic State (IS) positions in the Syrian border town of Kobani as the extremist group fought street battles with Kurdish forces and reportedly rushed in reinforcements.

The US-led coalition intensified its aerial bombardment of Islamic State positions in the Syrian border town of Kobani today as the extremist group fought street battles with Kurdish forces and reportedly rushed in reinforcements.

NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen has confirmed Norway’s former premier Jens Stoltenberg will succeed him as new chief of the military alliance in October.

US secretary of state John Kerry has called for all nations to do more to stop global warming.

Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg, nicknamed “Iron Erna”, will become Norway’s new prime minister, leading a centre-right coalition government which will probably include an anti-immigration party.

IS Enda Kenny driving you to despair? Well, it could be worse, you could be stuck in a taxi with our leader — like Norwegian voters were when that country’s unpopular prime minister Jens Stoltenberg posed as a cabbie for a re-election stunt.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg dressed up as a taxi driver and took passengers around Oslo in an unusual election campaign stunt recently.

A European woman who was jailed for having sex outside marriage after she complained to police in Dubai that she had been raped has been pardoned and is free to leave.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will attend a ceremony today where the European Union (EU) will be awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Norway’s prime minister has apologised in parliament for mistakes in the response to last year’s bomb and gun rampage by Anders Breivik that killed 77 people.

Norwegians by the thousands gathered at sombre memorials to the 77 people killed a year ago by far-right gunman Anders Behring Breivik to show his bloody rampage had done nothing to change their dedication to an open society.

Norway is commemorating the 77 victims of a bomb and gun massacre that shocked the peaceful nation one year ago.

Burma democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Norway yesterday to finally deliver her Nobel lecture — more than two decades after winning the peace prize for her dogged campaign to free her people.

David Cameron called today for speedy action to deal with the crisis in the eurozone on the eve of talks with German chancellor Angela Merkel.

Norway has apologised for the arrest and deportation of Jews during the Second World War.

FLAGS flew at half-mast as people lay flowers and children blew bubbles outside the cathedral in Norway’s capital yesterday to pay tribute to the 77 people killed in last month’s bombing and shooting massacre by a right-wing extremist.

Norway's King Harald has said freedom is stronger than fear, as the country concluded a month-long mourning period with a memorial service to the 77 people killed by a right-wing extremist.

Norwegians are today paying tribute to 77 people killed in last month's bombing and shooting massacre by a right-wing extremist.