Fox World

Ghana's new president is facing criticism after passages in his inauguration speech appeared to be lifted from speeches given by American leaders.

China's President Xi Jinping will attend the World Economic Forum next week, becoming the first Chinese head of state to do so.

Francois Fillon has vowed to make France's voice heard again in the Syrian conflict if he wins the presidential election later this year.

The Israel Museum in Jerusalem has selected a successor to its longtime director.

Spain's King Felipe VI and Brazilian President Michel Temer are among the dignitaries in Lisbon to attend the state funeral of Mario Soares, a former Portuguese leader who steered his country to democracy after a 1974 army coup toppled Portugal's four-decade dictatorship.

Turkey has renamed the street that serves the Russian Embassy after the ambassador who was killed in an attack in the Turkish capital.

Alarming smog levels in southern Poland have led authorities to close schools in one city and offer free transport in some places to protect children and try to improve the quality of air.

Europe's court of human rights has rejected an appeal by a Turkish-born couple who were fined in Switzerland for keeping their daughters out of mixed-gender, mandatory public-school swimming lessons for reasons linked to their Muslim faith.

An appeals court in Florence is deliberating a bid for acquittal by the only defendant ultimately convicted of the 2007 murder in Perugia, Italy, of British university student Meredith Kercher.

Britain's main opposition leader, seeking to start the year with renewed political momentum, has suggested imposing a national maximum wage.

Lebanon's newly elected President Michel Aoun will meet with the Saudi king during his first visit to the kingdom.

Maria Sharapova will return from her 15-month doping ban at a tournament in Germany in April.

Egypt is seeing a dramatic jump in the country's annual urban consumer price inflation, a stark reflection of the heavy toll inflicted by the government's tough economic measures.

Danish police are investigating the deaths of six members of a family and are treating it as a murder case.

The leaders of Cyprus have begun a second day of talks aimed at reunifying the island split along ethnic Greek and Turkish lines, addressing issues of how power could be shared, ties with the European Union and economic matters.

An Afghan official says that at least seven people have been killed when a suicide bomber, who was on foot, carried out an attack in the southern Helmand province.

Local and international rights groups have urged the Pakistani government to investigate the abductions and disappearances last week of four anti-Taliban activists.

Roman Herzog, who as president pressed Germany to embrace economic reform in the 1990s and also stressed the importance of remembering the Nazi Holocaust, has died.

Turkey's currency has weakened to an all-time low against the dollar as parliament debates constitutional amendments that would hand the president sweeping executive powers and, critics say, limit checks and balances.

Germany's interior and justice ministers hope to thrash out initial plans for a response to last month's truck attack on a Christmas market, with a tougher stance expected toward suspected extremists who don't have asylum.