Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere says about 20,000 applications received last month, compared to 120,000 in January

Extremist terror group, which controls swaths of Syria and Iraq, has bloody history of mass abductions, killings

Bowing to pressure after Panama Papers leak, Cameron insists he sold $42,177 stake in Bahamas-based trust in 2010

Negotiations to form unity government were frozen after Labor head hit by graft claims, according to media report

Three-volume work formerly belonged to 18th-century literary editor, was found on Scottish island

Candidate notes he immediately accepted correction to much-inflated 10,000 figure in midst of controversial interview; campaign says his words were ‘distorted’

ADL welcomes candidate’s admission he got his 2014 death toll wrong; AJC wants him to walk back ‘stinging, unjust’ claim that Israel waged ‘indiscriminate’ war

Netanyahu says resolution against settlements unhelpful when Palestinians ‘educate their children that the settlements are Tel Aviv, Haifa’