The UN Security Council held a closed-door emergency meeting on Syria Friday, one day after U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura warned that the lives of some 275,000 people were hanging in the balance as the Russian and Syrian government air bombardment of Aleppo continued unabated.
Canada's national police force says it is has started an investigation into two cases of babies who were allegedly switched at birth at a northern Manitoba hospital 41 years ago.
British authorities on Friday detained 15 refugees who were discovered hiding inside an ice-cold freezer truck carrying frozen potatoes imported from the Netherlands.
The amount of people who attended this year’s Oktoberfest—the world’s largest beer festival in Munich — dropped to its lowest level in 15 years amid growing fears about rampant rapes and other sex crimes often linked to Germany’s burgeoning migrant population.
The EU is celebrating the Paris Agreement's imminent entry into force with a ceremony at United Nations headquarters claiming credit for pushing the treaty that seeks to curtail the emissions of greenhouse gases past its final hurdle.
German airline TUI fly says it will have to cancel most of its flights for the second consecutive day Saturday, but hopes to return to a full schedule Sunday as it deals with a crisis prompted by crews reporting sick.
The number of people killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti surged on Friday to 842, local officials told Reuters, as help slowly trickled into marooned areas of the country's southwestern peninsula pummeled by the powerful storm.
An academic at the London School of Economics says she and colleagues have been told they can no longer advise the U.K. government on Britain's exit from the European Union because they are not British citizens.
A senior official in the prosecutor's office of the International Criminal Court says it is collecting information about alleged war crimes by both Israelis and Palestinians.
A court has cleared the ex-mayor of Rome in an expense account scandal that cost him his job and plunged the already troubled city administration into a year of chaos.
Police say a Liberian man, his partner and her grandson were injured in what appears to have been a racially motivated attack at the man's home in eastern Germany.