Parents of the missing Chibok girls are slowly learning if their daughters are among the 82 freed by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria two days ago. The girls' names were put on Twitter by the...
Voting for the next president of France has begun in some overseas territories. As the polls opened Brigitte Trogneux, the wife of French presidential election candidate for the En Marche! movement...
At least 37 people, including dozens of civilians, have been killed in an attack by ISIL fighters targeting a crossing along Syria's north-eastern border with Iraq, according to a monitoring group....
Congressional negotiators have reached an agreement on a spending bill to keep the US government running until 30 September, media report. The bipartisan deal boosts military spending but does not...
President François Hollande has called on French voters to reject far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and back Emmanuel Macron to succeed him. The pair will face each other in a run-off vote on 7 May...
Macron backed by mainstream parties to shut out Le Pen The presence of EU flags at Mr Macron's rally was not lost on supporters and opponents France's beaten mainstream parties have lined up behind...
Facebook on Friday said it disrupted an international fake account operation that was firing off inauthentic 'likes' and bogus comments to win friends it would then pound with spam. Facebook's...
The G7 group of nations has failed to reach agreement over threatening new sanctions against Russia and Syria. Foreign ministers were seeking a common position on the Syrian conflict, before the US...
The CEO of United Airlines has said that employees "followed established procedures" in an incident which saw a passenger dragged off a plane. In a letter to employees obtained by US media, Oscar...
G7 foreign ministers will attempt to agree a common position on the Syrian conflict, before the US secretary of state flies to Russia to try to persuade it to abandon its Syrian ally. Rex Tillerson...
G7 foreign ministers will attempt to agree a common position on the Syrian conflict, before the US secretary of state flies to Russia to try to persuade it to abandon its Syrian ally. Rex Tillerson...
Somalia's new military boss has survived a suspected suicide car bomb attack that has killed at least 15 people, according to police. General Mohamed Ahmed Jimale, who was recently named new chief of...
The White House says it is "confident" Bashar al-Assad's government was behind an apparent chemical attack that killed at least 58 people in north-west Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
At least 58 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in north-western Syria, a monitoring group says. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
The Dalai Lama has come face to face with an Indian soldier who guarded him almost 60 years ago as he fled from Tibet to exile in India. The Tibetan spiritual leader, 81, met Naren Chandra Das, 79,...
Bob Dylan has accepted his Nobel Prize for literature, more than three months after the awards ceremony, Swedish media report. He received his medal at a private event in Stockholm before a scheduled...
Bob Dylan has accepted his Nobel Prize for literature, more than three months after the awards ceremony, Swedish media report. He received his medal at a private event in Stockholm before a scheduled...
Ivanka Trump is officially joining her father’s administration as an unpaid employee with the title Assistant to the President, the White House says. The US first daughter bowed to pressure...
Ivanka Trump is officially joining her father's administration as an unpaid employee with the title Assistant to the President, the White House says. The US first daughter bowed to pressure following...
Turkish citizens in six European countries have started to vote in a referendum, the campaign for which has caused an international dispute. Voters are choosing whether to move Turkey from a...
