Why Barelona and Spanish international footballer Iniesta spends his spare time helping to make wine.

Russia's increasing military action in Syria is forcing moderate elements within the Syrian opposition into the hands of extremists, a US state department spokesman says.

Greece reacts angrily after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to question a 1923 treaty that set borders between the two countries.

Two Turkish tennis officials are given life bans after being found guilty of manipulating scores at ITF Futures events.

Norwegian musician Jenny Hval receives praise after releasing her sixth album, Blood Bitch, which features a song celebrating menstruation.

A man is caught on video destroying iPhones at an Apple Store in Dijon by whacking them with a heavy metal ball used for playing petanque.

It is unlikely that the mafia crime network acquired Van Gogh's sombre landscapes for the mastery of their brushstrokes, writes James Reynolds in Rome.

In an exclusive BBC interview, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the US is protecting a Syrian jihadist group in a bid to unseat the president.

A Romanian gangmaster kept 15 people in appalling conditions in a three-bedroom house in County Armagh, a court hears.

Europe grapples with what to do with married child migrants - separate them from their spouses, or risk condoning child abuse?

Europes Rosetta probe ends its mission to Comet 67P by crash-landing on to the icy objects surface.

A massive construction project has begun in Russia to build a 19km bridge to its newest region, Crimea, after it was annexed from Ukraine.

US trying to spare jihadist group in case it's needed to unseat Syrian president, Russian foreign minister tells BBC

Huge quantity of marijuana linked with controversial local drugs market.

German police closed a motorway at the Austrian border overnight after stopping a car carrying suspected bomb-making materials.

Italian police recover two famous Van Gogh paintings stolen from Amsterdam museum in 2002, officials say

Shares in troubled Deutsche Bank hit new lows in European trading as confidence in the bank continues to falter.

Deutsche Bank is under the most pressure a major lender has faced since the financial crisis, but many trace its woes back beyond the banking crash.

The audacious Rosetta mission has been commanded to end its investigation of Comet 67P by crashing into the 4km-wide ball of ice and dust.

France begins first air strikes against so-called Islamic State from aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, reports say

The low-tech solution helping to preserve an ice grotto in Switzerland's Rhone Glacier.

The story behind the suicide of two teenage girls in France opens an intense debate about how teenagers treat each other and how they are looked after at school.

The BBC has learned that at least a 1,000 refugees and migrants each week are trying to reach the EU via the Balkans.

Raffaele Sollecito, who spent four years in prison for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher before his conviction was quashed, says he wants to rebuild his image.

The UK's new information commissioner calls for the country to adopt forthcoming EU data protection laws, despite its plan to leave the EU.