A train driver's suicide caused widespread delays on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day in France, with some 3,000 ...

The Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel traded blame on Christmas Day over their failure to agree on a ceasefire deal ...

Desi Bouterse, the former dictator and later elected president of Suriname, who became a fugitive of justice for the killing ...

A flight from Azerbaijan to Grozny, Chechnya, crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25. Miraculously, 32 of the 67 people on ...

La Liga's relegation-threatened Valencia have appointed Carlos Corberan as their new manager after prising him from English ...

A key Syrian rescue group and an activist told AFP on Wednesday a burial site outside Damascus was likely a mass grave for ...

Syria's new authorities torched a large stockpile of drugs on Wednesday, two security officials told AFP, including one ...

Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis called Wednesday for "arms to be silenced" around the world in his Christmas address, ...

At least 46 people have died in a Pakistani bombardment of Afghanistan's Paktika province, the Afghan Taliban government said ...

Two reporters were killed and several were wounded Tuesday in a gang attack in Haiti on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s ...

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet with 67 people on board crashed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan after veering from ...

Premier League chart-toppers Liverpool are overwhelming favourites to see off struggling Leicester on Boxing Day (Thursday).