VATICAN CITY: The leak of a private letter from rebellious cardinals to Pope Francis has revived a cloak-and-dagger atmosphere at the Vatican, with...
VATICAN CITY: The leak of a private letter from rebellious cardinals to Pope Francis has revived a cloak-and-dagger atmosphere at the Vatican, with...
By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR: Violence against aid groups and general insecurity have plunged the Timbuktu region in northern Mali into a hunger crisis,...
By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS: Some 170,000 irregular migrants entered the European Union in September, the bloc's border agency Frontex said on Tuesday, taking...
OSLO: Norway may have to spend an extra 40 to 50 billion crowns ($4.9 billion-$6.2 billion) over the next five years to cope...
The Hague: International investigators have concluded that Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile fired from rebel-held eastern...
Tokyo: The governor of Okinawa Tuesday revoked approval for work on a US air base on the southern Japanese island, in the latest...
Minsk: The European Union agreed Monday to suspend sanctions against the regime of Belarussian strongman Alexander Lukashenko after he won a fifth term...
Rome: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was poised for a historic victory Tuesday as the Senate votes to relinquish most of its power...
Perth, Australia: A man missing for six days in a remote Australian desert in searing heat without water was found Tuesday after surviving...
By Asher Levine SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil: Until recently, Lucinelia de Jesus Souza's future seemed bright, running a small coffee shop that...
Oslo: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday said he was encouraged by recent reforms in Montenegro and saw "growing support" for inviting...
ROME: Turkey's leading writer has warned the country could collapse into sectarian conflict and blamed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the climate of...
By Ben Hirschler LONDON: U.S. prices for the world's 20 top-selling medicines are, on average, three times higher than in Britain, according to...
Kiev: Kiev said Monday it was banning all Russian airlines from flying into Ukraine from October 25 in a tit-for-tat response to Moscow's...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her Bavarian allies have agreed on a plan to set up "transit zones" at the border...
STOCKHOLM: Angus Deaton of Britain and the United States won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for his work on consumption, poverty and...
Moscow: Russia will prepare documents on rocket engines supplies to China by the visit of Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, due in December,...
Melbourne: The former chairman of an Australian wheat firm that allegedly paid sanctions-busting bribes to secure UN oil-for-food programme contracts in Saddam Hussein's...
