The Swedish Academy will be allowed to give the 2018 and 2019 Nobel literature prizes together after a scandal prevented last year's award, the head of the troubled

President Vladimir Putin yesterday officially suspended Russia's participation in a key Cold War-era arms treaty, after the US first moved to ditch the INF deal.

The Dutch husband of Shamima Begum, a British-born teenager who fled to join Islamic State, wants to live with her in the Netherlands, the BBC reported yesterday after finding him in Syria.

The European Union is ready to give Britain more guarantees that the Irish "backstop" is only intended to be temporary, the bloc's chief

The UN Security Council has designated Hamza bin Laden, the son of slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, under its sanctions list,

Two more ministers in Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's cabinet said yesterday they will not contest elections due in May, adding

Just 10 countries were responsible for three-quarters of a global surge in measles cases last year, the UN children's agency said yesterday, including one of the world's richest nations, France.

British MPs agreed Wednesday to give Prime Minister Theresa May more time to work on her EU withdrawal deal after she promised they could delay Brexit if necessary, but European leaders warned that any postponement would come with conditions.

Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday promised to allow parliament to delay Brexit by up to three months so that Britain would not crash out of the European Union without a deal on the scheduled departure date of March 29.

Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a "gold standard" level of certainty, adding pressure for cuts in greenhouse gases to limit rising temperatures, scientists said yesterday.

French warplanes struck a group of jihadists in central Mali over the weekend, killing or wounding 15 of them, the defence ministry in

Britain should quickly give up control of the Chagos archipelago, the Indian Ocean islands that house the secretive US airbase at Diego Garcia but are claimed by Mauritius, the International Court of Justice said yesterday.

European Council President Donald Tusk said yesterday that delaying Brexit beyond the scheduled exit date of March 29 would be a "rational solution" as there was no majority in the British parliament to approve a divorce deal.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday launched a new global strategy to combat hate speech, a growing scourge he said has "poisoned" debate on crucial challenges like migration.

British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday promised to offer lawmakers a vote on her Brexit deal by March 12, the latest delay in her attempt to win approval for a plan to ensure Britain's orderly departure from the European Union.

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg brought her class-boycott campaign to Paris, hoping to encourage more French students to

Venezuelan security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets yesterday to disperse a crowd demanding to cross the Venezuela-

The family of a London teenager who joined the Islamic State group in Syria yesterday said it would challenge the British government's decision to revoke her citizenship.

Iran has remained within the key limits on its nuclear activities imposed by its 2015 deal with major powers despite growing pressure

British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday said Prime Minister Theresa May must change her strategy and seek a close alliance with the European Union after Brexit to avert the dangerous prospect of an abrupt split.