Algeria will hold a presidential election on December 12, interim President Bensalah said in a televised speech on Sunday. Weekly mass demonstrations forced veteran president Bouteflika to resign in April, leaving...
Polling booths closed at 6 pm in Tunisia on Sunday after voting in the first round of a presidential election in the young democracy.
The head of the electoral commission had earlier called for young voters to...
Britain's Prince Harry celebrates his 35th birthday on Sunday. Fourth in line to the throne, Harry has lived his whole life in the public eye. Harry appears more at ease in front of the cameras. But royal...
More than 2,200 preserved fetal remains have been found on the Illinois property of a recently deceased doctor who performed abortions, the Will County sheriff's office said in a statement on Saturday. The...
Italy's new government allowed a French charity ship to bring ashore 82 migrants on Saturday in an apparent reversal of the uncompromising, closed-door policy of the previous administration. But, Foreign...
West African leaders have pledged $1 billion to combat the spiraling threat of Islamist militancy in the region, the head of the regional ECOWAS bloc said on Saturday. Groups with links to Islamic State have...
A group of Brazilian anthropologists and environmentalists have put forward Chief Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapó tribe as a candidate for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work protecting the...
At least one person died after fire broke out at a Rio de Janeiro hospital on Thursday. According to local media, hundreds of patients and medical staff evacuated the hospital in northern Rio. Local media reported...
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern introduced a new bill to parliament on Friday that aims to further tighten gun laws.
This is New Zealand's second set of gun reforms after weak gun laws were...
Swiss photographer Robert Frank was commemorated in an exhibition that opened in Berlin on Thursday. The travelling exhibition, "Robert Frank, Unseen", had been scheduled to open at the city's C/O...