Slovakia

Some 200 people were aboard the Eurocity train when the accident took place shortly after 5pm (1am AEST) near the town of Nove Zamky, police and the Slovak railway company ZSSK said.

Slovakia's populist prime minister, Robert Fico was transported to his home from hospital, where he continues to recover from the attack.

The man accused of attempting to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was ordered to remain behind bars amid fears he could flee or carry out other crimes if set free.

Fico, 59, was attacked as he was greeting supporters after a government meeting in the former coal mining town of Handlova.

The Slovak interior minister said a “lone wolf” has been charged in the shooting that seriously wounded Prime Minister Robert Fico and prompted soul-searching among leaders in the deeply divided society.

Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a "life-threatening condition" after being wounded in a shooting.

Firefighting aircraft and ground crews from other countries are headed to Greece to help battle wildfires that have intensified as a heatwave baked much of southern Europe in temperatures above 40 degrees.

Travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has published the latest edition of their annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year, a collection featuring the best photos of the Milky Way.

Tens of millions more people face tougher restrictions going into the weekend as countries across the region battle to bring down rising infection rates.

A teacher has been killed and four others have been seriously injured in a knife attack at a Slovakian school.

At least five are dead following a gas explosion in an apartment building in eastern Slovakia that is threatening to collapse a 12-storey building.

A week after an investigative journalist was shot dead in Slovakia, his last, unfinished story has been unpublished

A bizarre and unexplained car bombing in the Slovakian city of Zilina happened just metres away from two oblivious taxi drivers having a late-night chat.