The European Union (EU) has issued a formal warning or “yellow card” to the Philippines and Papua New Guinea for their practices of illegal fishing. The...
SOMA, Turkey – Rescuers struggled to reach more than 200 miners trapped underground early Wednesday after an explosion and a fire at a coal mine...
DZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakhstan – A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying three astronauts from the International Space Station has landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan. The landing occurred...
GENEVA – Sotheby’s says its spring auction has sold a world record $141.5 million in jewelry. The auction house says seven records in all were set...
DONETSK, Ukraine – Ninety per cent of voters in a key industrial region in eastern Ukraine came out in favour of sovereignty Sunday, pro-Russian insurgents...
LONDON – A British museum is launching an ambitious online database to remember the lives of the millions of men and women who served in World...
GENEVA – The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572...
KYIV, Ukraine – The mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city was shot in the back Monday and pro-Russia insurgents seized yet another government building as tensions...
PARIS – Four French journalists held hostage in Syria since June have been released, France’s presidential palace said Saturday. President Francois Hollande’s office said...
PARIS – Small underground nuclear power plants that could be cheaper to build than their behemoth counterparts may herald the future for an energy industry under...