Dozens of world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, yesterday paid their final respects to ex-president Jacques Chirac as France held a national day of mourning for the popular former head of state.

Britain’s Boris Johnson is known for his colourful love life but the accusation he grabbed a young woman’s thigh when he was a magazine editor risks a scandal as he seeks to unite his party over Brexit.

Austrians voted yesterday with the conservatives expected to win most seats but not a majority, forcing them into difficult coalition negotiations after a corruption scandal brought down their coalition government with the far-right. The People’s Party (OeVP) led by 33-year-old Sebastian Kurz is predicted to win around 33 percent, up slightly from the last election two years ago but not enough to form a government on its own.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson could be forced out of office this week as opposition lawmakers try to join forces to replace him with an interim administration in order to secure another Brexit delay.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterdaylost yet another vote in parliament over a government request for a three-day recess to allow his Conservative party to hold its annual conference. The government lost the vote, which could affect the timing of the conference

Britain’s most senior EU official launched a stinging attack on Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday, branding his comments about death threats against lawmakers “crass and dangerous”.

Jacques Chirac, the former French president who was a colossal figure in the country’s politics for three decades, died yesterday at the age of 86, his family told AFP.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson loses yet another vote in parliament over a government request for a three-day recess to allow his Conservative party to hold its annual conference.

Former French president Jacques Chirac, a centre-right career politician who served as head of state from 1995 to 2007, has died, his family told AFP on Thursday. He was 86.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday challenged opposition MPs to call a confidence vote in his government, after the Supreme Court struck down his decision to suspend parliament in the run-up to Brexit.

Yesterday’s ruling by the UK Supreme Court, which found Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament unlawful, is a humiliating blow for the prime minister and has momentous implications for Britain’s constitutional order. Here is a rundown of the main questions it raises:

Greta Thunberg’s emotional and strong pleas to world leaders at a UN climate summit apparently made little impact as announcements by major economies fell far short of expectations.

The United Kingdom's Supreme Court rules that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had acted unlawfully when he advised Queen Elizabeth to suspend parliament weeks before Brexit - and that therefore the suspension was void.

An Italian man shot dead his father Sunday during a hunting expedition in southern Italy after mistaking him for a wild boar, according to media reports. Martino Gaudioso, 55, was shot in the stomach by his 34-year-old son as they stalked their prey separately through thick

The world’s poorest people, increasingly buffeted by storms, floods and droughts, have been getting less than 1 cent a day each in international help to protect them from wild weather and rising seas as the Earth heats up, aid group Oxfam said yesterday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned yesterday that there would be no Brexit breakthrough at talks with European leaders in New York as gaps remained, but said significant progress had been made on striking a deal.

There is still time for London and Brussels to make a Brexit deal, outgoing European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said

Bolivian volunteer firefighters, exhausted from battling blazes sweeping rapidly across the country’s lowlands, are starting to lose

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold talks with European leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New

French police fired tear gas and made dozens of arrests yesterday as they dispersed groups of “yellow vest” protesters attempting to