Iraqi forces piled pressure on the Islamic State group around Mosul Thursday, moving closer to cutting off the jihadists' escape route west to Syria and thrusting deeper into the east of the city.
Nations, businesses and Washington's top diplomat urged president-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday not to withdraw the US from the climate-rescue Paris Agreement and its commitments to preserve Earth for future generations.
Iraqi forces have retaken the ancient city of Nimrud, but it has been heavily damaged by the Islamic State group, an AFP journalist who visited the site on Tuesday said.
Bulgaria’s centre-right Prime Minister Boyko Borisov stepped down Sunday after his presidential nominee suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of a Moscow-friendly general backed by the Socialist opposition.
France on Sunday marked the first anniversary of the Paris attacks with sombre ceremonies and painful memories for the relatives of the 130 people killed.
While their husbands met on Thursday (Nov 10) in the Oval Office to prepare passing the presidential torch, Mrs Michelle Obama and Mrs Melania Trump met elsewhere in the White House to plan their own transition.
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg rejected the idea that bogus stories shared at the social network paved a path of victory for President-elect Donald Trump.
A year after jihadists sowed terror in Paris, killing 130 people, the City of Light is struggling to restore its lustre as fearful tourists stay away in droves.
Predictions of an American exodus under a Donald Trump presidency were largely viewed as tongue in cheek during the campaign.
Donald Trump's surprise victory in the US presidential race raises new questions over Federal Reserve policy in the short run and the central bank's vital operational independence over the longer term.
An Afghan woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover was deported by Pakistani officials early Wednesday (Nov 9) to her war-torn homeland following a brief period of detention for using fraudulent identity papers.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to meet US president-elect Donald Trump next week in New York, officials said on Thursday (Nov 10) after telephone conversation between the two following the billionaire's shock election win.
Outside the Carillon bar, where flowers piled up over bloodstains almost one year ago, the pavement tables are packed again with regulars from the hipster Parisian neighbourhood.
US-backed forces pressed offensives Wednesday on the Islamic State group's strongholds in Syria and Iraq, as an air strike by the American-led coalition reportedly killed 20 civilians near the Syrian city of Raqa.
Barack Obama and his vanquished would-be successor Hillary Clinton sought Wednesday to heal the wounds opened by the most acrimonious US election in memory, as they assured President-elect Donald Trump that Americans were "rooting" for his success.
A researcher at Canada's National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg was "potentially exposed" to the Ebola virus, authorities announced Tuesday (Nov 8).
Britain's Supreme Court said on Tuesday (Nov 8) it has set aside four days starting on Dec 5 to hear the government's appeal against a landmark ruling that it must seek parliament's approval to start the Brexit process.
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