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Israel's President Isaac Herzog announced Friday he will invite Benjamin Netanyahu to form Israel's next government, paving the way for him to take the country's top job for a record sixth time and extend his record as the nation's longest-serving leader.

Iranian archer Parmida Ghasemi demonstrated her support for anti-government protests by removing her hijab during an awards ceremony in Tehran, a video shared to social media on Thursday shows.

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter thinks Iran should be barred from the upcoming World Cup in Qatar, a Swiss paper and online news website quoted him as saying Friday.

There's nothing quite like a festive market to bring out the Christmas spirit in people.

Apple has limited the use of the AirDrop wireless file sharing function on devices in China, just weeks after reports that some protesters had used the popular feature to spread messages critical of the Chinese government.

China's Singles Day, the world's biggest annual shopping event, is known for regularly smashing sales records.

The UK economy shrank in the third quarter, signaling the start of a recession that is likely to hit Europe next.

For years, there had been whispers. Rumors swirled; stories exchanged. It wasn't a secret, but it also wasn't openly discussed, adding to a legend almost too incredible to believe.

India's top court on Friday ordered the release of six people convicted of killing the country's former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, 31 years after their imprisonment.

World leaders are converging in Phnom Penh this weekend for the first in a series of international summits in Southeast Asia over the coming week, where divisions between major powers and conflict threaten to overshadow talks.

A woman who waved a British colonial-era flag to celebrate Hong Kong claiming Olympic gold has become the first person in the city to be jailed on a charge of insulting the Chinese national anthem.

A senior South Korean police inspector who was being investigated in connection with the deadly Halloween crowd crush in Seoul has been found dead in his home.

The year's best architectural photographs have been revealed, highlighting the beauty of sleek geometry, abstracted silhouettes and industrial textures from around the world.

Cyber criminals with links to Russia are behind a ransomware attack on one of Australia's largest private health insurers that's seen sensitive personal data published to the dark web, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said Friday.

The world is watching the world's richest man single-handedly destroy one of the world's most powerful and important communication platforms, just weeks after acquiring it for $44 billion. And of course, the world is watching the dramatic spectacle unfold on — where else? — Twitter.

With most of the world fully open again, we're all more than ready for a big, celebratory, this-pandemic-is-finally-easing-up trip.

A faulty automatic engine throttle system that was not properly monitored by pilots led to a deadly January 2021 crash of a Sriwijaya 737-500 jet, Indonesia's air accident investigator KNKT said in a final report on Thursday.

Twitter's chief information security officer announced their resignation on Thursday, vacating one of the company's most critical roles just as scrutiny is mounting over Twitter's future and the erratic decisions of its new owner, Elon Musk.

The diplomatic fallout between France and Italy over a stranded migrant ship in the Mediterranean Sea is far from over.

Kathleen Martinez, an archaeologist at the University of Santo Domingo, has been searching for the lost tomb of Cleopatra for nearly 20 years. Now she believes she's made a pivotal breakthrough.