Saudi Arabia has lifted some restrictions on women traveling in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom, its tourism authority said Sunday, with new guidelines allowing women to...

Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopia's largest ethnic group celebrated in Addis Ababa on Saturday at the start of an annual thanksgiving festival which was marred...

The Duke of Sussex has begun legal action against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in...

Namibia's ruling party South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) launched its election manifesto on Saturday.The launch in Outapi in northern Namibia signaled an all-out campaign...

Turkey's president is threatening to launch a solo military operation into northeastern Syria, saying the Turkish army is ready to move against U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish...

US Democratic lawmakers have demanded documents from the White House as part of their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The documents relate to a...

The Duke of Sussex has begun legal action against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in...

US Democratic lawmakers have demanded documents from the White House as part of their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.The documents relate to a call...

Two men were killed in a brazen shooting in Mexico's colonial city of San Miguel de Allende when gunmen opened fire on a funeral procession.City...

Marcel Cineus scanned the crowd for hints of a potential customer as people bustled past his wooden stall filled with hundreds of textbooks in the...

Thousands of protesters marched through the Haitian capital to the U.N. headquarters Friday in one of the largest demonstrations in a weekslong push to oust...

A runaway zebra has been shot dead in Germany after it escaped from a circus and fled onto a motorway, causing a traffic accident, police...

A US former police officer who shot dead her neighbour inside his own apartment in Dallas has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for...

US President Donald Trump has lashed out at congressional Democrats after they vowed to issue legal summonses to the White House this week.Committees are demanding...

At least 25 Malian soldiers are dead and 60 more are missing after militants attacked two army outposts, the government said. Camps in the towns...

An Australian teenager has been charged over the deaths of 20 kangaroos, which he allegedly mowed down with his truck in a killing spree that...

Australian police have arrested a 19-year-old man for allegedly running down and killing 20 kangaroos with his car.The dead animals - which included joeys -...

The Duchess of Sussex has begun legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.In...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused Democrats of bullying his staff as a part of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.He said...

Dutch farmers went on a go-slow in their tractors on Tuesday, clogging up major highways in the Netherlands as they headed to The Hague to...

Police in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, have freed 19 women and girls who had mostly been abducted and impregnated by captors planning to sell their...

German energy giant RWE said Monday (Sep 30) it aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040, winding up fossil-fuel activities while building up renewable generation,...

East Timor reported outbreaks of African swine fever last week, the first occurrence near its border with giant neighbor Indonesia of a virus that killed...

A spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denied allegations that Johnson groped two women 20 years ago. As Johnson prepares to lead the...

At least two migrants died onSunday in a fire at a Greek island refugee camp, with the blaze triggeringrioting by angry residents.Athens News Agency, quoting...

Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party, is locked in a close race to secure asecond term against the Conservatives, led by rookie Andrew Scheer.According to...

More than half of patients can now survive a deadly skin cancer that was considered untreatable just a decade ago, say UK doctors. Ten years...

Several thousand Spaniards marched near Barcelona on Saturday to protest the jailing of seven Catalan separatists on suspicion they planned to carry out attacks with...

Voting has started in Austria's snap general election, after a video sting scandal in May collapsed the coalition government.Opinion polls suggest former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's...

At least two people have been killed after a rollercoaster carriage derailed in Mexico City on Saturday.Another two people were injured in the accident at...

US special representative on Ukraine Kurt Volker resigned Friday after Congress ordered him to answer questions in an impeachment investigation on President Donald Trump, a...

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Haiti amid violent protest against President Jovenel Moïse.A police station was looted and stripped bare, and...

Hundreds of thousands of youths demonstrated across European cities on Friday in the second in a global series of protests to avert a climate catastrophe.Waving...

The police watchdog is to decide whether or not to investigate Boris Johnson for a potential criminal offence of misconduct in public office while he...

An orangutan which spent 20 years in an Argentine zoo is being moved to a US animal sanctuary after being granted the same legal rights...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been ordered by Democrats to turn over documents relating to the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine.In a letter,...

They came from the same country. They were in town for the same reason as diplomatic representatives of their government. And they took pains to...

The United States led more than 30 countries on Tuesday in condemning what it called China's "horrific campaign of repression" against Muslims in the western...

More than two million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swaths of Bolivian forest and...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa appealed for patience Wednesday for his efforts to pull his country out of an economic collapse and called on the U.S....

Honduras has signed a deal with the United States to accept migrants applying for asylum in the US.Under the agreement, the US would be able...

Abortion has been decriminalized across Australia after the last remaining state where it was illegal, New South Wales (NSW), voted to reform its laws.The bill,...

The Trump administration has released details of a phone conversation in July that has triggered a US impeachment inquiry against the president.According to the notes,...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that Iran’s demands for US sanctions relief were “unrealistic” as she met separately with the rival nations’ presidents.“I would...

The announcement Tuesday of a formal impeachment inquiry by the Democrats in the House of Representatives into President Donald Trump for abuse of power is...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to shut down the British parliament for five weeks in the run-up to Brexit was unlawful, the Supreme Court...

US President Donald Trump said Monday he could not rule out a meeting with Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations this week, but...

Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that the remains of dictator Francisco Franco should be exhumed. It backed the Socialist government's plan to move the remains...

The highest court in the UK is set to give its historic ruling on the legality of Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament for five...

Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe died from cancer after chemotherapy treatment was stopped because it was no longer effective, a state-owned newspaper quoted President Emmerson...