Former British Prime Minister David Cameron announced Monday that he is stepping down as a Member of Parliament, just months after leaving 10 Downing Street.
Thailand's ruling military junta has ordered that national security cases be judged in civilian courts, two years after placing such matters in military courts.
European Union leaders will meet in Malta early next year to discuss Europe's future once Britain leaves, as the 60th anniversary of the EU's founding Treaty of Rome approaches.
One of the world's largest shipping companies is sinking in a sea of red ink, leaving sailors and cargo stranded in vessels anchored offshore and merchants worrying they won't get goods in time for holiday shopping.
A new report by a U.S.-based watchdog group accuses South Sudan's rival leaders of amassing wealth abroad amid a conflict in which tens of thousands have been killed.
Officials say two earthquakes measuring magnitude 5.1 and 5.8 have jolted an historic city in southeastern South Korea, but there are no reports of serious injuries or damage.
France's latest efforts to reduce pollution will also affect nature lovers hitting the countryside for an outdoor meal: Under a controversial new ban, picnickers won't be able to buy plastic goblets to drink their beloved wine, or plastic knives to make ham and butter baguette sandwiches.
Libyan forces loyal to a powerful general say they have seized a third oil terminal from a rival militia, consolidating their grip over the country's so-called Oil Crescent.
The office of South African President Jacob Zuma says he has paid the state more than $500,000 after being instructed to do so in a scandal over upgrades to his private home.
A leading member of the nationalist party Alternative for Germany is facing fierce criticism after calling for a racially charged term once favored by the Nazis to be rehabilitated.
The Italian town hardest hit by last month's earthquake has filed a criminal defamation complaint denouncing French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for a cartoon depicting victims in layers of lasagna.
Germany's highest court says former chief justice Jutta Limbach, who later headed a commission that examines disputes over claims for the restitution of art looted under the Nazis, has died.
On a rainy evening the day after parliamentary elections in December 2011, popular blogger Alexei Navalny led a rally of thousands of angry Muscovites who complained of blatant and pervasive fraud at polling stations across the Russian capital.
France's Socialist government is vowing to maintain the train-making site of rail giant Alstom in the country despite the company's decision to end production.