A U.K. Independence Party legislator who was hospitalized after an altercation at the European Parliament has announced he is leaving the party that played a crucial role in the country's decision to leave the European Union.
A Mauritanian official says a former al-Qaida militant who gained fame with the publication of a diary about life at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has arrived in his country after nearly 14 years of detention.
Iraqi and Kurdish forces launched a long-awaited offensive Monday to drive the Islamic State group out of the country's second largest city, Mosul, but the operation could take weeks, if not months, and many fear a humanitarian crisis.
Thousands of experts and leaders from around the world are gathering in South America to dream up the city of the future even as the continent struggles with urban planning issues such as slums that have dogged the continent for decades.
It was the dead of night when an 11-year-old Nigerian orphan boarded an overloaded dinghy to take on the daunting task of crossing the Mediterranean Sea to a better life in Europe.
An explosion at a facility belonging to chemical firm BASF in southwestern Germany killed one person and injured at least six others on Monday, authorities said.
A British judge says people making threats against a woman challenging the government over its European Union exit plans will face "the full vigor of the law." Financial entrepreneur Gina Miller is the lead claimant in a lawsuit arguing that the government can't trigger Britain's exit from the EU without approval from Parliament.
About 300 peaceful protesters marched to the Chinese embassy in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to urge the Chinese government not to build a railway across the Nairobi National Park and surrounding areas.
The Austrian government says it plans to demolish the house where Adolf Hitler was born and erect a new building in its place in efforts to erase any link to the Nazi dictator's birthplace.
For Thailand's royalists — and there are millions of them — King Bhumibol Adulyadej will probably long remain embedded as a potent, father-like figure who guided them through turbulent decades and espoused ideals of national harmony, labor on behalf of the poor and the virtues of an agrarian society vanishing in the wake of headlong modernization.
The Philippines ambassador to the United Arab Emirates says a wanted man named by President Rodrigo Duterte as a major drug kingpin has been arrested in the Arab country's capital.
Bosnia's Central Election Commission says final election results show that a Bosnian Serb has been elected mayor of Srebrenica, known for the Bosnian Serb massacre of over 8,000 Muslims in 1995 which international courts defined as genocide.
Bosnia's prosecution office says it has brought arms trafficking charges against a Bosnian man who allegedly tried to mail two automatic weapon magazines to the United States.