World Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is expected to be reappointed Friday for a second term, in the shadow of the coming return of Donald Trump and his disdain for international trade ...

Floodwaters rushing through several states in Malaysia after heavy rains this week forced more than 80,000 people to evacuate and left four dead, officials said Friday.

The world's top court will next week start unprecedented hearings aimed at finding a "legal blueprint" for how countries should protect the environment from damaging greenhouse gases -- and what the ...

Leaning against his grocery stand in the nearly deserted market of Pokrovsk, east Ukraine, Maximilian Komashniov struggled to see how his frontline city could go through winter without electricity.

Lucas Herbert surged into a four stroke lead at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Friday as his LIV Golf teammate Cameron Smith imploded on the back nine.

Fresh protests were called in Spain on Friday as the shellshocked country marked one month since its worst floods in a generation killed 230 people.

A New Zealand navy vessel ploughed into a reef near Samoa and sank because its crew mistakenly left it on "autopilot", a military inquiry found on Friday.

The UN nuclear agency has confirmed that Iran plans to install around 6,000 new centrifuges to enrich uranium, according to a report seen by AFP on Friday.

Ireland began voting Friday in a closely-fought general election with the incumbent coalition neck-and-neck with opposition party Sinn Fein after a campaign marked by rancour over housing and ...

A Beijing court on Friday sentenced veteran Chinese state media journalist Dong Yuyu to seven years in prison on espionage charges, his family said.

Iran on Friday called on the European Union to change its behaviour toward Tehran, after talks with a top EU diplomat in Geneva.

Iran was to hold talks with Britain, France and Germany in Geneva on Friday over its nuclear programme, less than two months before Donald Trump returns as US president.