Traces of explosives have been detected on the remains of victims of an EgyptAir plane crash in May that killed all 66 people on board, the Egyptian aviation ministry has said.
Dozens of buses and ambulances drove out of the rebel-held part of Aleppo yesterday, carrying people being evacuated as part of a ceasefire deal after a siege by Syrian government forces and their allies that lasted for months.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will be left out in the cold when her European counterparts have dinner without her to push for a quick Brexit.
The Cabinet of Italy's newly appointed Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni is racing to reassure Europe that its political crisis is over, with assurances of policies similar to those of his predecessor and urging the European Union (EU) to be more "growth-oriented".
ExxonMobil's chief executive, Mr Rex Tillerson, has been officially nominated the next US secretary of state - but his confirmation will not be easy because his ties to Russia have caused concern even from key Republicans.
Turkish police have detained at least 235 people in raids targeting officials from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) over alleged links to Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants who have been connected to the twin bombings in Istanbul on Saturday.
President-elect Donald Trump said he will announce his nomination for secretary of state on Tuesday morning (Tuesday night Dec 13, Singapore time).
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he did not believe American intelligence assessments that Russia had intervened to help him win the election.
A bombing at Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending Sunday Mass, in the deadliest attack on Egypt's Christian minority in years.
Italy's President Sergio Mattarella yesterday gave Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni a mandate to try to form the country's new government.
It took just five days for bins to overflow and floors to become strewn with rubbish after cleaners at Barcelona's El Prat Airport went on strike.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls yesterday announced that he is running for president, warning France's divided left that it risks letting anti-European candidate Marine Le Pen into office.
Austria is too small a sample from which to tell if the populist tide is abating, with Europe still faces pivotal elections next year in France and Germany, as well as the possibility of a snap election in Italy.
One of the world's top universities is facing a lawsuit that alleges it was responsible for "appallingly bad" and "boring tuition" that cost a graduate his first-class degree.
South Korea's opposition parties filed an impeachment motion against scandal-hit President Park Geun Hye on Saturday (Dec 3) as a fresh weekly protest was expected to draw a million protesters, organisers said.
Anxiety about bogus news reports is rising in Europe, as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and others express concern that fake news circulated over social media may influence elections on the continent, including a critical referendum in Italy today.
For anyone who might like to see Mrs Michelle Obama run for president as a Democrat, it's time to rein in that early enthusiasm. Or so says her husband, President Barack Obama.
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