Niger's president says Germany can build a military logistics base in this West African country to strengthen its support of the fight against extremism here and in Mali.
A suicide car bombing killed 14 people, including 10 Afghan police officers, as the Taliban launched a large-scale attack Monday on the capital in southern Helmand province, the heartland of the insurgency.
A New Zealand tourist was so afraid of an Australian man she met through the dating app Tinder that she fell 14 floors to her death while trying to escape from his apartment balcony, a prosecutor told a court on Monday.
The rivalry is heating up between the two top contenders for France's conservative presidential primary next month — former president Nicolas Sarkozy and former prime minister Alain Juppe.
Italy says it has expelled a Tunisian man who pledged support to the Islamic State group on his Facebook page and was allegedly planning to go to the Syrian-Iraqi region to fight.
Estonia's president-elect, Kersti Kaljulaid, has been sworn in for a five-year term as the Baltic country's first female head of state and its fourth president since independence in 1991.
The World Food Program says South Sudan's government has suspended airdrops of food aid, the latest obstacle humanitarian officials have faced in this troubled country.
Helicopters are ferrying in food and medicine to devastated southwestern Haiti, but almost a week after Hurricane Matthew's assault life here is still far from normal and desperation is growing in communities where aid has yet to arrive.
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fired two missiles at a U.S. Navy destroyer operating off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea on Sunday -- though neither missile hit the ship, the Pentagon said in a statement.
Business groups are accusing the British government of imperiling the economy with statements suggesting the U.K. is heading for a hard divorce from the European Union.
A court in Moscow has ordered a leading independent newspaper to retract an article about a luxury yacht allegedly owned by the chief of Russia's top state-controlled oil company.
A civil society leader says a rebel attack near the northeastern Congo town of Beni has killed at least 11 people, including one soldier and two attackers.
The Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to British-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland for their research on how contracts are used to help people reconcile conflicting interests, such as in the pay of CEOs or privatization of services.