French President François Hollande could incur the anger of NATO leaders when they meet for a summit in Chicago on Sunday. Hollande has vowed to withdraw French troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, two years before NATO's planned pullout.
Incumbent Serbian President Boris Tadic has conceded defeat in a presidential run-off against rightist opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic. Tadic had a narrow lead in the May 6 polls, but was accused of vote fraud by Nikolic.
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in New York City on Saturday, a month after sparking a diplomatic crisis between the two countries by escaping house arrest and taking refuge at the US embassy in Beijing.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, who died aged 60 on Sunday, was hailed as a hero by some in Moamer Kadhafi's Libya, but reviled as a mass murderer by families of the 270 people killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.The Libyan, who maintained his ...
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 21 people were killed in violence across the country on Sunday, including at least 16 in the village of Souran in the restive province of Hama.
The chief prosecutor investigating a bombing at a high school in Italy's southern city of Brindisi said on Sunday that it is believed the attack, which left a 16 year-old student dead and several others injured, was committed by a single person.
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck northern Italy early on Sunday morning, leaving at least four people dead, several others injured and causing serious damage to a number of historic buildings.
Saturday's Champions League victory for Chelsea was a huge triumph for striker Didier Drogba, who revealed to the press after the match that he had been haunted by the memory of his African Nations Cup penalty miss in February.
A car competing at the 14th annual Maures regional rally in France's southern town of Dragugnan crashed into a crowd of spectators on Saturday, killing at least two people and badly injuring about 15.
A private company that was set to launch a rocket loaded with supplies to the International Space Station aborted the launch at the last minute on Saturday. It would have been the first commercial flight to the ISS.
European shares tumbled and the euro hit a four-month low against the dollar on Friday, a day after Moody’s rating agency downgraded 16 Spanish banks in a move that unnerved investors amid growing concern over the eurozone debt crisis.
In Egypt, female genital mutilation was outlawed five years ago after a 12-year-old girl bled to death. However, this ban has done little to stop the widespread practice, and some conservative lawmakers are now pushing to make it legal again. Read more...
