US President Joe Biden promised to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" on his campaign trail two years ago, but energy and security concerns have forced a changed stance.

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From another deadly Russian missile strike on Ukrainian civilians far from the front line... to France's Ukrainian touch on Bastille Day: five key events related to the war.

The Trumps were a publicity power couple in New York in the 1980s and 1990s before their equally public and messy divorce.

The new bill will make it a "state responsibility" to identify the thousands of missing victims of Spain's Civil War and Franco's dictatorship.

Sophie Wilmès is stepping down after her husband was diagnosed with brain cancer. Prime Minister Alexander De Croo will take on the foreign minister's role.

Initial investigations suggest the rear of the rollercoaster at Tivoli Friheden in Aarhus broke loose and came off the rails.

Singaporean authorities say Rajapaksa has been "allowed entry on a private visit" but not to seek asylum. It is thought he might travel on to the United Arab Emirates.

A car drives through a wildfire in central Portugal, where over 2,000 firefighters were battling four major fires across the country on Thursday morning.

President Mattarella has told the prime minister to go back to parliament after Mario Draghi offered to quit, arguing his national unity coalition "no longer exists".

The US president met the Israeli prime minister but neither can agree how to proceed.

The former Iranian prison official was tried in Stockholm under the principle of universal jurisdiction.

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France celebrated its national holiday Thursday with thousands of French troops marching down the Champs-Elysees avenue alongside allies from Eastern Europe.

Missiles struck the city of Vinnytsia Thursday, killing 20 people and wounding 90 others in what Ukraine's president said was "an open act of terrorism" by Russia on the country's civilian population in areas with no military value.

The Navarra regional government said six people were treated for minor injuries following the final running of the bulls at this year’s San Fermín Festival on Thursday.

SIx people were injured and transferred to hospital during the eighth and last bull run of this year's San Fermin festival in Pamplona, one of them gored.

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has swapped his camera for a gun and says his country will prevail in the fight against Russia.

Russian missiles struck a large city in central Ukraine on Thursday, killing more than 20 and wounding another 90, in an attack President Zelenskyy called “an open act of terrorism” against civilians.

Political, diplomatic and judicial leaders from around 40 nations gathered in The Hague on Thursday for a conference on accountability for crimes committed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion.

This is a story of a black bear who got into a backyard fishpond to cool off from the summer heat until the resident koi carp scared it away.

The war in Ukraine featured prominently in Bastille Day celebrations in France on Thursday, with thousands of French troops marching down the Champs-Elysees avenue alongside allies from Eastern Europe.

Populist coalition partners 5-Star Movement say they want Prime Minister Mario Draghi to do more to ease Italy's cost of living crisis.

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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on Wednesday, hours before he was supposed to resign, leaving the prime minister as acting president. The island nation is battling severe shortages of food and fuel, with many blaming Rajapaksa for t...

Thousands of Hungarians protested against Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government on Wednesday, in the second day of anti-government rallies after lawmakers fast-tracked legislation sharply raising taxes for small firms.

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The human ashes were unearthed near the former Nazi concentration camp of Soldau.

Officials say the war in Ukraine and EU sanctions on Russia have caused an "energy crisis".

From optimism (and pessism) over talks to end Russia's grain blockade... to pro-Russian separatist territories reportedly gaining recognition from North Korea: 10 latest developments in the war.

Authorities say the aircraft went down in the Aegean Sea while battling a forest fire on the island of Samos.

The 28-year-old was already serving a two-year sentence for reporting on opposition demonstrations in 2020.

President Biden takes part in wreath-laying ceremony at Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem. In Bethlehem, rights group's billboards say Israel is "apartheid" ahead of Biden visit.

The US president wlll meet with Palestinian officials on Friday, and continue to Saudi Arabia on his first Middle East tour since taking office.

Lawmakers from the ruling Conservative Party held their second round of voting on Thursday, eliminating Suella Braverman in the contest to replace the outgoing prime minister.

The European Space Agency has officially terminated a joint European-Russian rover mission to Mars amid political tensions caused by the war in Ukraine.

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Protesters in the Sri Lanka's prime minister office as the crisis-hit country declared an indefinite nationwide state of emergency, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the island nation.

Authorities are still investigating the causes of death, two weeks after the tragedy.

The Twitter-Musk saga has been described as "one of the craziest business stories ever". What could possibly be the outcome?

"It was apocalyptic," says the village's mayor, speaking of flames 30 metres high on a 600-metre front in the middle of the night.

The Dicastery for Bishops meets to evaluate proposed new bishops that are put forward by Vatican ambassadors.

An official French parliamentary report finds the interior minister was wrong to blame Liverpool fans for crowd disruption before the Champions League final in Paris in May.

Screens in Times Square display images just released by the James Webb Space Telescope, heralding a new era of astronomy.

Around two-thirds of refugees from Ukraine expect to stay in their host countries until hostilities subside and the security situation improves after Russia's invasion, a survey by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has found.

Flying with his father on a small plane over North Carolina, flight attendant Vincent Fraser had no other choice but to land on Highway 19 in Swain County when his engine started to die.

Police fire tear gas at protesters mobbing the Prime minister's residence in Colombo as crisis-hit Sri Lanka declared an indefinite nationwide state of emergency, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country.

Military officials from the two countries are holding their first face-to-face meetings for months in Istanbul, to discuss a UN plan to export grain and ease global shortages.

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A presidential tweet that some saw as a “call to arms" and an “unhinged” meeting in the White House. Here are some of the takeaways from the seventh Capitol riots inquiry hearing.