British Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a farewell Cabinet meeting Tuesday, a day before handing over power to his successor following the historic vote to leave the European Union.
A suicide car bomb ripped through an outdoor market in a Shiite-dominated northeastern district of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, officials said, as government forces deployed across much of the Iraqi capital in preparation for a major military parade later this week.
A tribunal at The Hague ruled in a sweeping decision Tuesday that China has no legal basis for claiming much of the South China Sea and had aggravated the seething regional dispute with its large-scale land reclamation and construction of artificial islands that destroyed coral reefs and the natural condition of the disputed areas.
Uganda's main opposition leader was freed Tuesday after spending two months in jail over treason charges after he claimed an election victory over the country's long-time president.
The office of Israel's defense minister says it has blocked an Israeli delegation from traveling to the West Bank to meet with the Palestinian president.
China swiftly rejected an international tribunal's ruling Tuesday that its expansive claim to the South China Sea had no legal basis, saying the ruling was null and void and that Beijing would not accept it.
Human Rights Watch is urging an end to "forced anal examinations" with a report documenting them in eight countries, mostly in Africa, saying the practice is based on flawed ideas about supposedly proving homosexual conduct.
Zimbabwe police have charged the organizer of the country's biggest shutdown protest in close to a decade with inciting violence and disturbing the peace.
Embassies and aid workers are trying to evacuate staff from South Sudan's capital, Juba, as a precarious calm settles over the city following several days of deadly clashes.
A state-linked Saudi newspaper is reporting that a trial will begin soon for those accused of negligence in connection with a crane collapse in Mecca that killed 111 pilgrims and injured nearly 240 people just days before the start of last year's annual hajj pilgrimage.
Italian news reports say that two trains have collided head-on in the southern region of Puglia, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others.