Britain sought a firm commitment Thursday from Germany to change its law to help smash people smuggling gangs, as the two ...

Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine's new prime minister, represents a generation of young Ukrainian politicians who have steered their ...

Turkish prosecutors are seeking a minimum of five years in jail for political commentator Fatih Altayli, accused of threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a rights group said on Thursday.

A rare painting of Mahatma Gandhi, believed to be the only oil portrait that the Indian independence leader ever sat for, has ...

G20 chair South Africa warned Thursday that abandoning the rules-based global order and declining cooperation could derail ...

A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 61 people, ...

Swatch Group said Thursday that weak sales in China wiped out growth elsewhere in the first half of the year for the world's top watch company, leaving it barely profitable.

At least three people were killed and more than 1,000 evacuated Thursday after South Korea was hit by torrential rains, ...

Volvo Cars announced on Thursday it had swung into loss in the second quarter, after it took an impairment charge for its electric cars, booked restructuring charges and dealt with ...

France will on Thursday formally hand back its last military bases in Senegal, leaving the French army with no permanent camps in west and central Africa.

A 60-year-old farmer in China has built his own "Big Black Fish" -- a homemade submarine that can accommodate two people, dive eight metres and stay underwater for 30 minutes ...

Chinese officials are seeking to tame the country's swelling electric vehicle industry with policies to prevent "irrational competition", state media said, as a brutal price war ensnares top ...