The leader of Britain's parliament Andrea Leadsom said she was beginning to wonder what game the European Union was playing over

Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila's centre-right government resigned yesterday after it failed to push through a flagship social and health care reform package, just five weeks ahead of a legislative election. The wide-reaching reform has been a hard fought struggle over a decade and has divided successive governments.

Progress towards gender parity at work has barely budged for the past quarter century, and will only speed up once men take on far more unpaid caregiving tasks, the UN said yesterday, on the eve of International Women's Day.

France on Wednesday introduced a bill to tax internet and technology giants such as Google and Facebook on their digital sales, putting it among a vanguard of countries seeking to force the companies to pay more in the markets where they operate.

Social media firms and foreign investors must do more to ensure they support human rights in Myanmar, UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee

1957: Ghana became independent from Britain.

EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said yesterday "no solution" has been found so far to break the deadlock over Brexit, a spokesman

The Swedish Academy will be allowed to give the 2018 and 2019 Nobel literature prizes together after a scandal prevented last year's award, the head of the troubled

President Vladimir Putin yesterday officially suspended Russia's participation in a key Cold War-era arms treaty, after the US first moved to ditch the INF deal.

The Dutch husband of Shamima Begum, a British-born teenager who fled to join Islamic State, wants to live with her in the Netherlands, the BBC reported yesterday after finding him in Syria.

The UN Security Council has designated Hamza bin Laden, the son of slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, under its sanctions list,

Two more ministers in Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's cabinet said yesterday they will not contest elections due in May, adding

The European Union is ready to give Britain more guarantees that the Irish "backstop" is only intended to be temporary, the bloc's chief

Just 10 countries were responsible for three-quarters of a global surge in measles cases last year, the UN children's agency said yesterday, including one of the world's richest nations, France.

British MPs agreed Wednesday to give Prime Minister Theresa May more time to work on her EU withdrawal deal after she promised they could delay Brexit if necessary, but European leaders warned that any postponement would come with conditions.

Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a "gold standard" level of certainty, adding pressure for cuts in greenhouse gases to limit rising temperatures, scientists said yesterday.

Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday promised to allow parliament to delay Brexit by up to three months so that Britain would not crash out of the European Union without a deal on the scheduled departure date of March 29.

French warplanes struck a group of jihadists in central Mali over the weekend, killing or wounding 15 of them, the defence ministry in

Britain should quickly give up control of the Chagos archipelago, the Indian Ocean islands that house the secretive US airbase at Diego Garcia but are claimed by Mauritius, the International Court of Justice said yesterday.

European Council President Donald Tusk said yesterday that delaying Brexit beyond the scheduled exit date of March 29 would be a "rational solution" as there was no majority in the British parliament to approve a divorce deal.