U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued an emergency order to ground Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft after a crash in Ethiopia that killed…

The U.S. military will effectively bar most transgender people and force people to serve under their birth gender, according to a memo from the Department of Defence.…

Heavy battles raged on Wednesday between U.S.-backed Syrian forces and Islamic State in the militant group’s last pocket in Eastern Syria, a Kurdish commander said. On March…

The Taliban on Tuesday released two photos of a modest mud house in southeastern Afghanistan where they say the group’s supreme leader and founder, Mullah Mohammad Omar,…

A high-ranking French Catholic cleric, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was convicted on Thursday for failing to report allegations of sexual abuse in his diocese and said he would…

Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn has sacked a member of his staff for adultery. According to a royal gazette announcement published, on Saturday a male staff member of…

Islamic State faced final territorial defeat on Saturday as the U.S.-backed Syrian force battling the jihadists said it was closing in on their last bastion near the…

Zhores Alferov, the 2000 Nobel prize winner in physics and a member of Russia’s parliament, has died aged 88 in St Petersburg, the Russian Communist party said…

As the electoral campaigns ahead of the crucial European Parliamentary elections will start in March, the EU needs to see more progress on the commitments made by…