A 12-year-old German-Iraqi boy radicalized by the Islamic State is accused of planning to set off a nail bomb at a Christmas market in Germany, according to reports Friday.
Strong winds and rain have torn through a tent where South African President Jacob Zuma was giving a speech on a national holiday, panicking the crowd and prompting aides to rush Zuma off the stage.
The Philippine foreign secretary says his country won't take any steps against China in response to reports it apparently has installed anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons on its new artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea.
German airline Lufthansa is launching a code-sharing agreement with Abu Dhabi-based Etihad — a key financial backer of troubled rival Air Berlin, from which Lufthansa will lease 38 aircraft for two of its subsidiaries.
Greece's prime minister says he wants to help Greeks who have made "enormous sacrifices in the name of Europe" as he visits German Chancellor Angela Merkel amid an argument about a Christmas bonus payment for low-earning pensioners.
Egypt's Minister of Religious Endowments says anti-Christian attacks are an assault on God, as part of the government's attempts to counter extremists' rhetoric nearly a week after a deadly attack on a Cairo church left over 26 dead.
An Israeli advocacy group on Thursday asked a U.S. federal court to block aerospace giant Boeing Co.'s planned $16.6 billion deal with Iran Air, saying the Tehran government must first pay off billions of dollars in damages to families of people killed or wounded by Iranian-backed militant groups.
Greenpeace and WWF have suspended their relationship with one of Indonesia's leading pulp and paper companies, saying it did not live up to a promise to stop clearing virgin forests and peatlands.