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 Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet, Google's new parent company   SAN FRANCISCO:  Google's new parent company hit the stock market on Monday with an...

PARIS:  Air France's human resources manager had his shirt stripped from him as he was "almost lynched" on Monday by workers protesting at...

BRUSSELS:  Controversial ride-sharing service Uber faces a crackdown by governments around the world and protests by angry taxi drivers, but the company insists...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY:  Pope Francis told a Roman Catholic meeting on family issues on Monday that the Church should not be...

PARIS:  UNESCO's director-general on Monday condemned the destruction of the Arch of Triumph in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra by Islamic State...

KIEV:  President Petro Poroshenko has stressed that Ukraine must regain control of its eastern border by the end of December even if full...

NEW YORK: Twitter said Monday that co-founder Jack Dorsey, interim chief executive since July 1, will become CEO of the online messaging service...

TOKYO: Japan's prime minister said Monday a dozen nations have reached "broad agreement" on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which aims to become the world's...

BIOT:  Volunteers and firefighters began the gruelling task Monday of cleaning up French Riviera towns strewn with mud and debris, as the death...

A Russian Navy ship named 'Caesar Kunikov' passes through the Dardanelles strait in Turkey en route to the Mediterranean Sea, Sunday,   MADRID: Russia's...

Portraits of Nobel Medicine Prize winners (L-R) Irish-born William Campbell, Satoshi Omura of Japan and China's Youyou Tu are displayed on a screen...

Conakry: Clashes between supporters of Guinea's ruling party and opposition activists left at least one dead and more than 80 wounded, a charity...

By Guy Faulconbridge and William James MANCHESTER:  Prime Minister David Cameron said his renegotiation of Britain's ties with the European Union was "bloody...

    By William James MANCHESTER:  Russia is engaged in "classic asymmetric warfare" in Syria by using its military clout to prop up President Bashar...

By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES:  "The Martian" blasted off with a massive $55 million this weekend, nearly surpassing another space-based adventure, "Gravity," as...

South African coal miners began a strike on Sunday after wage talks collapsed last week, disrupting the sector that produces the country's electricity...

By David Adams MIAMI:  Life jackets, containers and an oil sheen were spotted by U.S. Coast Guard aircrews on Sunday, the third day...

Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev (L) talks to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Constantine (Konstantinovsky) Palace in St. Petersburg...