Arms manufacturers in North America and Western Europe dominated international arms sales in 2014, but their market share dropped while Russian and Asian companies saw theirs rise, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported yesterday.

A teacher in a Paris suburb was attacked yesterday by a man wielding a box cutter and scissors who cited the Islamic State jihadist group, sources in the police and prosecutor's office said.

French police have identified the third gunman from the deadly attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, Prime Minister Manuel Valls

The Islamic State (IS) group harms Islam through its intolerance, but "dialogue" with the jihadists is vital, the Dalai Lama said in an

It's clear at this point that even if the international climate accord being negotiated in suburban Paris becomes legally binding, it won't include punitive measures like trade sanctions or embargoes on straggler countries that fail to meet their commitments.

Negotiators are edging towards a compromise on one of the most divisive issues between countries at the COP21 climate change talks

Georgia on Friday stripped former leader and reformer Mikheil Saakashvili of his citizenship as he had acquired a Ukrainian passport to serve as governor of

Humanity must change how it lives, travels and grows food in order to avert global warming catastrophe, Nobel laureate Al Gore said at the Paris climate summit yesterday.

Spain's Constitutional Court yesterday revoked a resolution by Catalonia's parliament that declared the start of a secession process in the wealthy northeastern

Dutch police have suspended an officer who tried to sell online souvenirs said to have come from the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down over

The European Union and Turkey agreed on a deal to stem the migrant crisis, including a three-billion-euro ($3.2-billion) aid package for Syrian refugees in Turkey, EU president Donald Tusk said after a summit in Brussels on Sunday.

Turkey will not apologise for downing a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian border but Moscow should reconsider retaliatory sanctions, Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu said yesterday as he held talks at Nato headquarters.

Let me be clear: The fate of the Paris agreement rests with you. The future of your people, the future of our planet. We have never faced such a test -- a political moment like this may not come again, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.

Violence cast a long shadow over a climate summit opening in Paris yesterday, two weeks after 130 people were killed in a coordinated jihadist onslaught on the French capital.

The heads of 147 states attend the UN climate change conference in Paris - also there will be Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and 27 other billionaires, who have pledged to fund research to develop a technical fix to the planet's climate woes. The Breakthrough Energy Coalition - which also includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Virgin's Richard Branson and Alibaba founder Jack Ma - was announced yesterday with a promise to “invest early,invest broadly, invest boldly, invest wisely and invest together”.

Countries will be looking at ways to limit global warming to two degrees by 2100 by curbing carbon emissions. This could include

"Copenhagen". The mere mention of the Danish capital's name can send a chill down the spine of even the toughest climate negotiator.

Protesters take part in global climate rallies in New Delhi, Sydney, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Athens, and Seoul demanding a deal at the Paris World Climate Change Conference, known as the COP21 summit, to save the world, yesterday. Tens of thousands of people from Sydney to London

Germany is planning to deploy 1,200 troops to help France in the fight against Islamic State jihadists in Syria, its army chief said

Russia has begun to restrict coal supplies to Ukraine, Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told parliament yesterday, days after the Kremlin threatened to punish Kiev for a power blackout of Russian-annexed Crimea.