Recently drubbed by voters, Italian ex-Premier Matteo Renzi on Sunday exhorted his Democratic Party to be more humble and in synch with citizens as he eyes elections widely expected in...

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military camp in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday morning, killing at least 52 soldiers, a security official said. The Islamic State group's...

A delicately timed evacuation deal involving trapped civilians and fighters in war-ravaged east Aleppo and two Syrian villages was thrown into doubt Sunday when assailants torched six buses assigned...

This is the main news as reported by the Associated Press on 17 December....

A woman was killed and five others were injured when a large eucalyptus tree fell on a wedding party taking photographs at a Southern California park Saturday, authorities said. Several people...

Berlin authorities say they've arrested the man suspected of brutally kicking a 26-year-old woman down a flight of stairs in a Berlin subway station in an assault caught on a surveillance...

The surgeon who created the life-saving Heimlich manoeuvre for choking victims has died. Dr Henry Heimlich died early Saturday at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. He was 96. His son,...

The head of the European Union border control agency says that about 350,000 migrants have arrived in the EU so far this year. Fabrice Leggeri, executive director of the Frontex border agency,...

Security officers have restored order at a prison in the central English city of Birmingham one day after an estimated 600 inmates seized control and launched a destructive rampage. Authorities...

A deadly car bomb attack hit the central Anatolian province of Kayseri on Saturday morning, Turkish media said. There were preliminary reports of fatalities amid a media blackout. State-run...