New French President Emmanuel Macron is set to name a prime minister and visit German Chancellor Angela Merkel on his first full day in office today.
The 39-year-old centrist leader laid out his ambitious plans for France as he took power on Sunday, promising to restore France's shattered self -confidence and help rebuild the flagging European Union.
North Korea's latest missile launch was a successful test of a new type of rocket, Pyongyang's state media reported today. Sunday's launch was of a "newly-developed mid/long-range strategic ballistic rocket, Hwasong-12", the official KCNA news agency said, adding that leader Kim Jong-Un "personally oversaw the test-launch of the new type of rocket".
Governments and computer experts girded today for a possible worsening of the global cyberattack that has hit more than 150 countries, as Microsoft warned against stockpiling vulnerabilities like the one at the heart of the crisis.
Some 8,400 Ivory Coast soldiers who mutinied in January apologised to President Alassane Ouattara in an orchestrated ceremony that was aired on national television late Thursday.
Top US intelligence chiefs on Thursday publicly expressed doubts about the global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs because of its roots in Russia.
Brazil's government on Thursday declared an end to a national emergency over the Zika virus which was detected in the Latin American country late in 2015 before becoming a global concern.
G7 finance ministers meet Friday in Italy, seeking common ground and stability on future world trade after US President Donald Trump's declaration that "America First" would be his mantra.
French president-elect Emmanuel Macron's party on Thursday unveiled more than 400 candidates who will stand in parliamentary elections in June, with half of them newcomers to politics and half of them women.
Incoming French president Emmanuel Macron will on Thursday reveal a list of hundreds of candidates for his new centrist political party, as he seeks to win a parliamentary majority in next month's general election.
A wall collapsed during a wedding party in western India late Wednesday, killing 24 people including four children, police said.
The White House slapped down calls for a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia Wednesday, after the US president abruptly fired his FBI director.
An earthquake rocked China's western Xinjiang region on Thursday, killing eight people and injuring another 11, state media reported.
Incoming French president Emmanuel Macron was starting to build his centrist government Tuesday, with his former Socialist boss jockeying for position in a radically changed political landscape.
An explosion at a fireworks warehouse killed 14 people, all but three of them children, in a poor Mexican village as it celebrated a religious festival.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired FBI director James Comey, ousting the man heading a wide-ranging investigation into whether his aides colluded with Russia to sway last year's US election.
Left-leaning former human rights lawyer Moon Jae-In began his five-year term as president of South Korea on Wednesday, following a landslide election win after a corruption scandal felled the country's last leader.
A new round of United Nations-backed peace talks for war-ravaged Syria is set to begin in Geneva next week, the office of the UN mediator said on Monday.
The International Criminal Court is considering whether to investigate migrant-related crimes in Libya, which has become a "marketplace" for human trafficking, the chief prosecutor said on Monday.
Did Donald Trump's contested travel ban deliberately single out Muslims? The US administration fiercely denied it during an appeals court hearing on Monday -- despite the president's campaign call for a blanket Muslim ban.
Tens of millions of South Koreans were casting their votes on Tuesday to elect a candidate to lead the country for the next five years.
