Tokyo, Apr 9 :  A 5.6-magnitude quake hit western Japan early today, injuring five people and damaging buildings and roads, as officials warned stronger tremors could come in the days...

Paris, Apr 9 : Saudi Arabia will make its first official appearance at France's Cannes film festival, submitting a selection of short films when the prestigious competition opens next month, the...

Beirut, Apr 8 : Renewed air strikes have hit the last opposition holdout in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, leaving 70 civilians dead in around 24 hours, as regime troops pressed an...

Curitiba (Brazil), Apr 8: Leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spent today as Brazil's first ex-president to be imprisoned for a common crime -- and his cell was in the...

Munster (Germany), Apr 8 : German investigators were puzzled this morning by the motives of a man who drove a van into a crowd at an open-air restaurant the day...

London, Apr 8 :  Russia's embassy in London today accused Britain of "deliberately" withholding information on probes into the targeting of several Russians on its soil, as the war of...

Beirut, Apr 7 :  Air strikes on Syria's rebel-controlled Douma killed eight civilians on Saturday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as government forces resumed a military blitz of...

Mazar-I-Sharif (Afghanistan), Apr 7 : A high-ranking Islamic State commander in Afghanistan has been killed in an airstrike, officials said today, as Afghan and US forces dial up attacks on...

Sydney, Apr 7 :  A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck a remote part of Papua New Guinea today, US seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake...

Brussels, Apr 6 : Facebook has admitted it may have "improperly shared" the personal data of up to 2.7 million people in the European Union, the bloc announced today, saying...