Somalians queued in the capital Mogadishu on Thursday to vote in local elections by universal suffrage for the first time in ...

Algerian legislators have declared France's colonization a crime, demanding restitution for property taken during its ...

Moscow has made an offer to Paris regarding jailed French researcher Laurent Vinatier, who is facing espionage charges that could see him sentenced to 20 years in a Russian prison, the Kremlin said ...

The Japanese government on Friday approved a record budget for the upcoming fiscal year, to pay for everything from bigger ...

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey ...

Presidential candidates in Guinea, including junta leader General Mamady Doumbouya, held their final political rallies ...

Sarah Mullally, who becomes head of the Church of England next month, warned during a Christmas sermon on Thursday that ...

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to ...

Reigning champions Oklahoma City have the NBA's best record, but they can't find a way to defeat San Antonio, with superstar ...

The Green Bay Packers advanced to the NFL playoffs on Thursday without stepping onto the field, clinching a post-season berth ...

Skippers of 129 yachts set sail on a "bumpy" Sydney-Hobart ocean race Friday, with many to scatter rose petals for the Bondi ...

The wife of Cambodia's leader has attended funerals for soldiers killed in border clashes with Thailand, according to an ...