French President Francois Hollande's dramatic announcement that he will not seek a second term opens the way for his prime minister Manuel Valls to make a bid for power in next year's increasingly open election.

Islamic State is likely to launch more attacks in Europe, the EU police agency Europol warns, with several dozen militants already in place and more possibly arriving as IS faces setbacks in Syria and Iraq.

President Vladimir Putin struck an unusually conciliatory tone in his annual state of the nation address yesterday, saying

A UN panel has rejected Britain's request to review a ruling that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being arbitrarily detained,

Ukraine yesterday unleashed a barrage of missile tests near Russian-annexed Crimea in a show of strength and defiance bound

The widening gap between rich and poor around the world is a "ticking time bomb" threatening to explode into social and economic unrest if left unchecked, Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus says.

CIA director John Brennan yesterday warned that tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, as US President-elect Donald

The UN said yesterday that its food agency had postponed the start date for a controversial post handed to a former

Ukraine yesterday unveiled the world's largest moveable metal structure over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's

Rescuers saved some 1,400 migrants off the coast of Libya on Monday as Italy announced a record number of

Italian woman, Emma Morano, on Tuesday celebrates her 117th birthday as the last known person alive who was born in the 19th century. She is the world's oldest living person and the secret to her longevity appears to lie in eschewing usual medical wisdom.

Far from the image of owning fast cars and living in mansions, footballers around the world face low wages, delayed payments, bullying and intimidation, according to a survey published on Tuesday.

Britain's anti-EU party UKIP elected former history lecturer Paul Nuttall as its new leader yesterday to take over from

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, criticized for fondly remembering Fidel Castro without mention of his

Francois Fillon, a conservative reformist promising to shrink the French state, on Sunday clinched the rightwing

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday threatened to open Turkey's borders to allow migrants to reach the EU, in a move

Former British prime minister John Major believes there is a "credible case" for a second referendum on Brexit, a newspaper

The British government on Friday rejected criticism of its intervention in Libya, arguing its involvement saved civilian lives and

Israel has accused France of aiding a boycott of the Jewish state, after Paris announced new guidelines for labelling goods from

The European Parliament yesterday voted in favour of a freeze of membership talks with Turkey over its post-coup crackdown, further escalating tensions with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.