No, this isn't another dire prediction about the end of the world - but, in 1,000 days, we will arrive at the end of 2015. That's when the world is supposed to reach the endpoints for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the targets set by the global community in 2000 for various improvements in the state of the world's people.

A cleaner has been arrested in Sweden after stealing a train and crashing it into a house in a wealthy Stockholm suburb. The train crashes into t...

In more than a quarter of a century since his violent death, Olof Palme has retained the ability to command headlines and divide opinion just as he did during his lifetime.

The wife of a man who blew himself up in a Stockholm street sent him a text message about "paradise" three days before his death, a court heard today....