Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described beautiful women as part of the country’s “brand”, prompting a furious backlash from activists and on social media yesterday.

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled inter-ethnic violence in northeastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past

The Kremlin yesterday said Moscow had been the victim of US cyberattacks “for years” following a New York Times report that

The UN yesterday called for an “independent inquiry” into the death of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, who died in state custody.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that the United States is “considering a full range of options” regarding rising tensions

A Russian court yesterday released a newspaper editor and former lawmaker, who had been held on extortion charges, after an outcry

Boris Johnson got a boost in his campaign to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday when one of his former rivals and EU

The World Health Organization said Friday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not qualify as an international threat, despite the spread of the virus to neighbouring Uganda carried by an infected family.

Ads featuring "harmful gender stereotypes" which are likely to cause offence will be banned in Britain under new rules that could have a major impact on the industry.

Climate change is set to empty the ocean of nearly a fifth of all living creatures, measured by mass, by the end of the century, researchers have calculated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Saudi Arabia, a traditional U.S. ally in the Middle East, in October this year, Saudi Energy

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam yesterday vowed to push ahead with amendments to laws allowing suspects to be extradited to

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, a contender to replace Theresa May as prime minister, yesterday said that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had indicated the EU was willing to renegotiate the Brexit divorce deal.

British Prime Minister Theresa May steps down as leader of her Conservative Party yesterday, formally triggering the race for a successor who will try where she failed to deliver Brexit.

A powerful explosion in the southern Swedish town of Linkoping damages buildings and lightly injured 25 people, police say.

British Prime Minister Theresa May steps down as leader of her Conservative Party, formally triggering the race for a successor who will try where she failed to deliver Brexit.

A Swedish court yesterday rejected a request to detain Julian Assange over a 2010 rape case, dashing the prosecutor’s hopes of having

The leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner SPD said yesterday she was resigning as her party’s chief, raising the

The United States wants Britain to leave the European Union as it would strengthen the Nato military alliance and show respect for the result of 2016’s referendum, US National Security Advisor John Bolton said in an interview published on Friday.

Hungarian rescuers were hunting for survivors yesterday after one of the country’s worst boat disasters that left seven South Korean tourists dead and 21 others still missing.