UN chief Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm over reports of atrocities against civilians Monday, as the battle for Aleppo entered its final phase with Syrian government forces on the verge of retaking rebel-held areas of the city.

A bomb blast tore through a church near Cairo’s Coptic cathedral during a service yesterday, killing 23 people in the deadliest attack in recent memory on Egypt’s Christian minority.

President-elect Donald Trump questioned in an interview broadcast yesterday whether the United States should continue its "one China policy" unless Beijing makes concessions on trade and other issues, threatening to upend decades of Sino-American diplomacy.

A decade-long surge of the potent greenhouse gas methane threatens to make the fight against global warming even harder, top researchers warned today.

Macedonia’s ruling conservative party and the opposition Social Democrats both claimed victory in snap elections held yesterday in the hope of solving a two-year long deep political crisis.

Twenty-nine people, mainly police, were killed and 166 wounded in Istanbul on Saturday when twin bombings struck the heart of the city close to the stadium of top flight football giants Besiktas after a major game.

A church roof has collapsed in southeastern Nigeria causing "many deaths and injury" the country's president said on Saturday, with state media reporting that up to 200 people could have been killed.

A quarter of a century after the summit in the Dutch town of Maastricht that gave birth to the euro, the EU will mark the anniversary on Friday with little fanfare as it battles a wave of crises.