More than a dozen flights have been affected, with Rome’s main airport receiving an email threat purporting to be from a fringe ultranationalist Russian group.

Multiple flights in Europe were targeted by bomb threats on Thursday, forcing emergency landings, searches and in several cases military escorts, in fresh disruptions following hoax threats earlier this week.

More than a dozen flights have been affected, with jet fighters scrambled as threats hit the region for the second time this week.

Planes headed for Italy, Poland and Bulgaria were among the flights to be targeted.

British comedian Russell Brand was found guilty on Thursday ⁠of ⁠rape and three sexual assaults. Here are details ⁠of his convictions. RAPE - COMPLAINANT FIVE The fifth complainant in the trial said she had met Brand in ​2009 after one of his gigs,

Russell Brand was found guilty of several counts of rape and sexual assault following his trial in London.

Russell Brand has been convicted of rape and sexual assault charges on allegations dating back more than 20 years

Brand, 51, had denied the charges, pleading not guilty to three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault, and one count of attempted indecent assault.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy has appeared with first lady Melania Trump at the White House as she brought together Russian and Ukrainian officials to mark the localized ceasefire she brokered between their nations in the Ukrainian village of Oleshky.

Russian and Ukrainian officials appeared together at the White House as Melania Trump highlighted a ceasefire she helped broker.

First lady Melania Trump hosted delegations from Russia and Ukraine to highlight the humanitarian ceasefire she helped broker in Oleshky. She praised the countries for choosing "humanity over war" by following through with the agreement.

US first lady hosts Russian, Ukrainian officials at the White House, urges two sides to build on recent local truce.

Oil prices fell for a fourth day on Thursday on expectations the losses US President Donald Trump's Republican Party suffered in Congressional elections this week may reduce the risk ​of further escalation of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Oil prices fell Wednesday as investors weighed the Democrats’ sweep of Congress and the implications for Trump’s approach to Iran.

Oil prices fell for a fourth day on Thursday on expectations the losses US President Donald Trump's Republican Party suffered in Congressional elections this week may reduce the risk of further escalation of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Oil prices rose on Wednesday in a volatile session as investors awaited Washington's next move in the war with Iran.

Cristiano Ronaldo's glorious Portugal career ultimately ended in acrimony. What a contrast to his great rival Lionel Messi, who also retired from international soccer this year, but only after leading Argentina to back-to-back World Cup finals.

Cristiano Ronaldo is calling it quits for the Portugal national team, but that doesn't mean the legendary forward is hanging up his boots entirely.

- Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo performs a bicycle kick past Czech Republic’s David Limbersky during the Euro 2012 soccer championship quarterfinal match between Czech Republic and Portugal in Warsaw,

During the five minutes it took to watch Cristiano Ronaldo’s emotional farewell video to the Portuguese national team, it was easy to forget the sour note on which his international career has ended.

Joshua Wong, once a rising political star in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, has been sentenced again under Beijing’s national security law

Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong arrives at the Eastern Magistrates' Courts over illegal assembly and violation of an emergency law banning face coverings last year, in Hong Kong, China September 30,

Some 15 years ago, then-high school student Joshua Wong was a rising political star in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.

Joshua Wong, once a teenage figurehead of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, faces the prospect of entering middle age in prison, after a court Thursday meted out a 10-year sentence over a second national security conviction.