British Prime Minister Theresa May will begin reshuffling her cabinet on Monday in a bid to reassert authority after a torrid 2017 in which she lost her working majority and several ministers to scandals.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan travels to Paris on Friday for talks with France's Emmanuel Macron aimed at improving relations with Europe, after a war of words in 2017.
A giant winter "bomb cyclone" walloped the US East Coast on Thursday with heavy snow and freezing cold that made for treacherous travel conditions and bone-chilling misery.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday disbanded an investigation into alleged voter fraud in the 2016 election, but refused to back down on unsubstantiated allegations of massive wrongdoing at the ballot box.
Australia agreed to allow exports of medicinal cannabis on Thursday in a boost to budding domestic manufacturers, as it eyes becoming a leading world supplier.
South Korea's defense authorities said on Thursday there has been no indication of an imminent missile test by North Korea, responding to US news reports that the secretive nation appears to be preparing to fire another intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
The European Union will "survive" Britain's Brexit departure and will remain strong, the bloc's foreign policy chief said on Wednesday.
Peruvian emergency workers on Wednesday said they had recovered 50 bodies -- six of them children -- from a horrific bus crash over a cliff north of the capital Lima.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday visits Paris for talks with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, seeking to start the New Year by warming relations with the European Union after a torrid 2017.
A fire destroyed a building and injured 23 people in New York on Tuesday, just days after the city’s deadliest inferno in a quarter of a century.
A Canadian man who was held captive by a faction of the Afghan Taliban for five years has been arrested on 15 charges including sexual assault, illegal confinement and issuing death threats, according to reports on Tuesday.
Fresh protests broke out as night fell in Iran Monday with reports of a policeman shot dead, as the authorities moved to crack down on days of unrest across the country.
Czechs and Slovaks on Monday marked a quarter century since the January 1, 1993 split of Czechoslovakia into two independent states, an amicable parting dubbed the "Velvet Divorce".
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad replaced his defence minister for the first time since 2012 as part of a government reshuffle announced by the state news agency SANA on Monday.
Snow, lengthy de-icing procedures and missing crews created havoc at Canada's main airports on Monday, with hundreds of flights cancelled or delayed out of the country's biggest city Toronto.
Italy's President Sergio Mattarella dissolved parliament on Thursday as the country prepares for knife-edge general elections in March.
The toughest security presence in years will safeguard New Year's Eve festivities in New York's Times Square, where around two million people are expected to congregate in the area, police said Thursday.
A fire tore through a multi-storey building in India's financial capital Mumbai Friday, killing at least 15 people and leaving many injured, a senior police officer said.
Former star footballer George Weah was named winner of Liberia's presidential election on Thursday, easily beating his challenger in the country's first democratic transfer of power in seven decades scarred by civil wars, political assassinations and an Ebola crisis.
