Philippine coast guard enters disputed shoal, China doesn’t object
Two Philippine Coast Guard ships have started patrolling the disputed Scarborough Shoal in what appears to be a new understanding with the Chinese.
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Two Philippine Coast Guard ships have started patrolling the disputed Scarborough Shoal in what appears to be a new understanding with the Chinese.
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Islamist 'morality police’ are patrolling areas of Stockholm, committing acts of violence against women, advocates told Swedish media, expressing concern that Muslim girls are facing extreme limitations on their freedoms.
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Justin Welby, the Church of England’s most senior cleric, says the government has such a poor understanding of religion that it lumps jihadists and Anglican Christians into one group and considers them both “bonkers.”
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Images of what are said to be Turkish special forces operating inside Syria are circulating on social media.
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UFC superstar Jon Jones has been banned from competing for one year by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for failing a drug test.
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US officials are split over the future of Raqqa, Syria, with some claiming all international forces will leave the city once it is freed from terrorists, and others announcing plans to stay to ‘govern’ it along with Turkey.
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Britain’s highest court has confirmed the date it will hear the government’s appeal against last week’s High Court ruling that said Parliament must have the final say on when Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty can be triggered, formally beginning Brexit negotiations.
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Archaeologists have discovered a large Bronze Age city in northern Iraq which they believe may have been an outpost of the world’s first empire.
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The northern Russian port city of Murmansk, with a population of 300,000, has been partly left without electricity following an emergency at an energy facility. Eyewitnesses captured a bright flash, after which the lights went out.
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Russian Agriculture Minister Aleksandr Tkachev said on Tuesday the country’s 2016 harvest of grain and leguminous crops is the highest since 1978.
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An overwhelming majority of Russians say they would support the federal parliament if it introduced monetary fines for lawmakers who fail to attend sessions without offering valid excuses.
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Moscow seeks to abolish mutual restrictions with the EU, but Brussels doesn’t show commitment to the matter, Economic Development Minister Aleksey Ulyukaev told Italian business leaders in Rome on Tuesday. Italy has been opposing anti-Russian sanctions, calling them counterproductive.
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A woman arrested by Minnesota police pulled off an incredible escape by slipping out of handcuffs and stealing a squad car from the alleged crime scene.
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Most Russians currently think Western criticism of their country’s policies is simply an attempt to weaken Russia’s positions and that the authorities should not pay attention to it, recent research shows.
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French company Total and China’s CNPC are to sign a major deal with Iran for the development of its gas fields. This will mark the first Western and Chinese energy investment in the Islamic Republic since the loosening of international sanctions in January.
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A gaping sinkhole in the middle of a road appeared next to a busy subway station in Japan, disrupting traffic and causing a local blackout. Emergency services expect the hole, which is dangerously close to the surrounding buildings, to expand.
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Just hours away from the first votes of the 2016 election, many Americans are sharing their final thoughts before they hit the polls. Whether for Trump or Clinton, the motivations behind the #ImVotingBecause trend ranged from personal to political.
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The victim of a brutal police beating has been awarded $36.6 million in mostly punitive damages after a jury found five Genesee County Sheriff's officers used excessive force.
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A French watchdog, entrusted with assessing the impact of digital technologies on society, has called for the suspension of and a public debate over a new stealthily-issued government decree that allows massive biometric data collection on almost every Frenchmen.
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The FBI’s prolific 2013 attack on dark web servers that hosted child pornography was seen by many as a win. However, unsealed documents show the FBI may have taken some massive liberties with its warrants for dark web service TorMail.
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An amateur Mexican footballer is on the run after headbutting and inadvertently killing a referee who handed him a red card, according to local media reports.
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A new generation of self determining robots able to set their own goals and experiment and mimic the human learning process are under development as part of an EU-funded project led by Italian scientists.
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