Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives face possible ejection from Berlin's state government in an election this weekend, while a nationalist party hopes for more gains at the expense of Germany's traditional political forces.
A Swedish appeals court on Friday upheld a detention order for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, dismissing the latest attempt by the 45-year-old Australian to make prosecutors drop a rape investigation from 2010.
A team from the International Monetary Fund will travel next week to Mozambique, which is struggling to reassure investors after the revelation earlier this year of at least $1.4 billion in hidden debt.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared on NBC’s “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Thursday and joked that he is “looking to make a lot less money” in changing jobs to become president.
A court in Corsica has convicted five people for violence on a beach that was initially believed linked to a woman wearing a full-body burkini swimsuit.
Turkey's state-run news agency says four people were detained following information about a possible Islamic State group attack on the German and British embassies in Turkey during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, but investigators found there was no specific threat.
A plan to build an NFL stadium in Las Vegas and lure the Raiders from Oakland crossed a major hurdle Thursday when a Nevada oversight committee voted unanimously to recommend $750 million in public funding for the project.