World

  By Alonso Soto and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday called off a trip to Japan and Vietnam to save...

    DUBAI: Bahrain's Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa was taken to hospital on Friday night but was in stable condition, state...

Representational image   Paris: The number of child brides in Africa will more than double to 310 million by 2050 unless urgent action is...

BRASILIA: Brazil’s federal and state governments plan to sue the owners of the Samarco iron ore miner for 20 billion reais ($5.24 billion)in...

Khartoum: Shelling killed a four-year-old girl and an Ethiopian peacekeeper in the disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan, the United Nations...

Herve Falciani   Geneva: Herve Falciani, the former HSBC employee whose disclosures uncorked the "Swissleaks" scandal on bank-supported tax evasion, was sentenced in absentia...

  By Elizabeth Pineau and Paul Taylor MOSCOW/BRUSSELS: The leaders of Russia and France avoided each other’s gaze as they made short, stiff statements...

Beirut: Lebanese army intelligence has arrested a foreign terrorist while trying to leave Lebanon with a fake passport, the army said Friday in...

  By Philip Pullella and George Obulutsa NAIROBI: Pope Francis urged young Kenyans on Friday not to yield to the sweet lure of corruption,...

  Geneva: Venezuela must find and punish those responsible for the murder of a prominent opposition leader who was gunned down less that two...

    Recep Tayyip Erdo?an   By Alastair Macdonald and Jonny Hogg BRUSSELS/ANKARA: European and Turkish officials are working to smooth out their remaining differences on...

Santiago Seage   Madrid: Abengoa said Friday its chief executive Santiago Seage had resigned after it emerged the Spanish renewable energy giant was close...

  CAPE TOWN: Burundi’s top opposition leader said he feared for his life as violence mounted following President Pierre Nkurunziza’s disputed election to a...

Protester Lamon Reccord, 16, confronted a police officer during a demonstration in response to the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago on...

Timothy Brown lived alongside his dead father Kenneth in their home in Stafford (pictured) for up to four months and was only discovered...

    By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON: The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans’ phone records by Sunday and...

  London: London's Metropolitan Police on Friday warned singletons to beware of online dating scams after two men were convicted of duping a woman...

GENEVA:  A World Trade Organization dispute panel ruled against Colombia’s tariff on textiles, clothes and shoes on Friday, dismissing its argument that the...