The comments by Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, aired by state TV, further underscored the narrowing window for the U.S. and others to reach terms with Iran.

Freezing rain and gale winds hit the high-altitude race, state media reported Sunday.

An eruption in 2002 left hundreds dead and 100,000 homeless.

The UN Refugee Agency says three former refugees were participating in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest and two of them were in Saturday's final

After an exciting night, Italy won out over France and Switzerland, with their infectious brand of stonking rock

Dubai Princess Latifa released video saying she was being imprisoned in a heavily guarded villa in February 2021

China's Mars Rover, Zhurong, has left its module for the first time for a successful drive around on the surface of the Red Planet

Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip beginning to assess the damage from 11 days of intense Israeli bombardment.

Residents of Ceuta confront the sudden arrival of thousands of African migrants with sympathy, and concern, others with hostility.

Lukas Furtenbach of Austria is the only prominent outfitter to halt Everest expeditions due to virus fears

The international architecture show addresses political and religious polarization, the quest for space and human collaboration.

A second powerful earthquake shook parts of central China on Friday night causing significant damage to buildings and infrastructure

The key stories of the week, captured by photographers around the world.

Attahiru had been appointed to the position earlier this year by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The letter from 1946 sold for more than $1.2 million (€1 million) — three times its estimated price.

In doubt as to whether COVID-19 can be transmitted from mink to humans, various countries across Europe have culled their mink farm populations. But Greece is taking a different direction to protect its economy and its farmers.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced 1.3 billion doses of vaccine will be delivered by Europe alone to low-income countries

A man was arrested near Lyon on suspicion of harassing members of the police and making around 27,000 phone calls to the authorities between April and May.

The court's ruling on Friday is a temporary measure pending its final decision on the Czech complaint.

At least 10 people have died while cleaning sewers near the Russian city of Taganrog after inhaling toxic fumes, local authorities said.

For forty years the island was known as “The Colony of Psychopaths”. Now, as the Aegean Island begins building a new detention facility, locals are reminded of the past.

A Syrian national has been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing two gay men in Dresden last year, killing one and seriously injuring his partner in an attack that prosecutors said was motivated by anti-LGBT Islamic extremist beliefs.

An elderly man in Austria has had the wrong leg amputated after a "tragic" mistake at a clinic near the Czech border.

EU travellers will be allowed to get a travel certificate if they can prove they had been vaccinated, tested negative for the virus or have proof they've recovered from it. But despite the boost given by Brussels, the WHO is warning people to rethink...

More than 170 people including Swedes, Britons and Germans were killed when the Ukrainian Airlines plane was shot down over Tehran last January.

Nearly 100 Spanish mountaineers, trekkers and tourists were repatriated after being stranded in Nepal, where a strict lockdown came into force on April 29 following a spike in cases.

Abubakar Shekau reportedly tried to kill himself to avoid capture after being surrounded by rival jihadists.

Vice President Kamala Harris reports of stabbings, shootings and other attacks against Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals and their businesses have increased six-fold since the beginning of the pandemic.

The US top diplomat sought to reassure Greenlanders and Danes after former President Donald Trump expressed interest in buying the world's largest island from Denmark.

The ceasefire agreement came into effect on Friday, officially closing the worst round of violence since 2014, which has killed at least 230 Palestinians and 12 Israelis.

The use of steroids and immunosuppressants in treating COVID-19 patients is among the reasons behind the rise in black fungus cases observed in India, according to a Dehli doctor.

Denmark has opened an optional scheme to volunteers who would like to receive the unwanted COVID-19 vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.

The number of confirmed cases of the Indian strain hit more than 3,400 on Thursday, a rise of 2,000 in just a week.

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The new billionaires include five people associated with Moderna and three from CanSino Biologics, a Chinese vaccine company.

The 4,320 square-kilometre iceberg is larger than the island of Mallorca. It's broken off and is now floating in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

A suspected armed robber died and seven others were arrested following a dramatic police chase and gunfight near Amsterdam.

A German army officer who posed as a Syrian asylum-seeker has gone on trial accused of plotting to kill prominent politicians and blame the attack on refugees.

The deep divide that was exposed by the referendum in 2006 still defines politics in Montenegro.

According to the report, BBC's Martin Bashir commissioned a fake bank statement showing payments from a consultancy firm and News International into the bank account of Alan Waller, a former employee of Diana’s brother Charles Spencer.

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said flooding had triggered a record 120,000 displacements, while 5 major storms displaced 6,200 people across nine countries, “double the annual average for the last decade".

"The closure of Kara Tepe municipal camp marks the end of an era for refugee reception in Greece."

The world's largest sovereign wealth fund has excluded two Israeli groups involved in developing settlements in the West Bank.

The countries ahead on vaccinations, relatively speaking, are those outside the EU, like Serbia and the UK. Hungary is the exception, but Budapest has bought doses from Russia and China to boost its stocks.

A French court has ruled that hundreds of victims of a breast implant scandal are entitled to compensation.

One of the sparks that lit the fuse of the latest conflict in Gaza came from a small neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, where Israeli settlers are working to evict Palestinian families.

The UK's train network is not only one of the worst in Europe, it is also one of the most expensive.

The latest strikes came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against U.S. pressure to wind down the offensive against Gaza's militant Hamas rulers, who have fired thousands of rockets at Israel.

Believers in Cyprus claim that “El Diablo” encourages devil worship. Singer Elena Tsagrinou says they have got the wrong end of the stick.

Everyone wants a piece of the Arctic as the ice melts and valuable new resources are exposed. Can the Arctic Council prevent a new war for influence in the polar north?