The UN peace envoy for Syria will host Iran, Russia and Turkey for talks on drafting a new Syrian constitution on September 11-12, a

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Sunday he will run for re-election in 2019 legislative polls. The Liberal Party leader

Armed assailants injured several policemen in attacks in three locations in the Russian republic of Chechnya yesterday, as the Islamic

A police officer shot dead a man armed with a knife as he tried to attack a police station in Catalonia yesterday, just days after the

Gunshots were fired early yesterday at the US embassy in Ankara but caused no casualties, Turkish and American officials said, amid

Former UN chief Kofi Annan, who died on Saturday, lashed out at the state of global leadership in an exclusive interview with AFP last year, urging more cooperation to deal with terrorism, migration and climate change.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday that Europe had not yet shown it was willing to "pay the price" of defying Washington in order to save the nuclear deal.

Nigel Farage, who spearheaded the drive to get Britain out of the EU, yesterday announced he was returning to the fray in a bid to

Rescuers search for survivors amid the debris of Italy's bridge collapse as the death toll climbed to 37 and the government blames the bridge's operator, demanding resignations and moving to strip its toll concession.

Manmade global warming and a natural surge in Earth's surface temperature will join forces to make the next five years exceptionally hot, according to a study published Tuesday.

More than 100 publications across the US will publish editorials rejecting Donald Trump's repeated attacks on the press. The move is part of a coordinated effort by the Boston Globe's editorial board to denounce the president's claim that the media "is the enemy of the American people".

A British man accused of a terror attack after driving into a barrier protecting the Houses of Parliament faces investigation for attempted murder, police said yesterday. Three people were injured when the 29-year-old, named by media as Salih Khater, drove over a pavement and into cyclists before crashing into the barrier on Tuesday morning.

Austria's capital Vienna has beaten Melbourne to be ranked the "world's most liveable city" in a new annual survey released Monday, ending the southern Australian city's seven-year reign.

A furore over alleged anti-semitism in Britain's main opposition party widened when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn exchanged accusations on Twitter over Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed.

At least 35 people were killed when a motorway bridge collapsed in torrential rains yesterday morning over buildings in the northern Italian port city of Genoa, Italy's ANSA news agency cited fire brigade sources as saying.

A new set of eco-friendly but completely exposed urinals deployed on the streets of Paris provokes uproar from locals.

35 people are killed when a motorway bridge collapsed in torrential rains over buildings in the northern Italian port city of Genoa, Italy's ANSA news agency cites fire brigade sources as saying.

Panic erupted at a packed music festival in Spain when a section of a wooden promenade suddenly collapsed, injuring more than 300

Rights group Amnesty International said yesterday it would conduct "full and independent external inquiries" into the suicides of two of its staff in the last three months.

The United States yesterday urged Britain to ditch its support for a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and instead join forces with Washington to