The EU will Tuesday open the way for member states to set up migrant return centres outside the bloc, in a highly contentious move following pressure from governments to facilitate deportations. The European Commission is to unveil a planned reform of the EU's return system, which critics say is inadequate in its present form, including…

Manchester United on Tuesday announced plans to build a new 100,000-capacity stadium close to their historic Old Trafford home, which co-owner Jim Ratcliffe promised would be the "world's greatest" football ground. The momentous decision by the Premier League club comes after an extensive consultation process on whether to develop their creaking current ground or move.…

As a drone smashed into the side of her apartment block early on Tuesday, Russia's full-scale offensive on Ukraine literally came home to Svetlana in a suburb southeast of Moscow. Like for most Russians, Moscow's three-year military campaign had until then felt distant -- mostly constrained to television screens. Despite militaristic propaganda and a mass…

Militants from Islamist group Al-Shabaab on Tuesday killed at least four people in an ongoing attack on a central Somali hotel hosting a meeting over the long-running insurgency, security and police said. Gunmen rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the building's entrance in the Hiran region city of Beledweyne. Several armed men then entered and "started…

Air France-KLM and Germany's Lufthansa have made competing offers to buy a stake in indebted Spanish carrier Air Europa, the El Confidencial news site reported Tuesday. Air France-KLM has proposed 300 million euros ($327 million) to acquire 51 percent of Air Europa from its main shareholder, the tourism group Globalia, and pledged to take on…