Chinese troops will travel to Russia to take part in joint military exercises led by the host and including India, Belarus, Mongolia, Tajikistan and other countries, China's defence ministry said on Wednesday.

German chancellor Olaf Scholz faces lawmakers' questions this week over his role in tackling a multibillion-euro tax fraud as a sprawling probe into the scheme threatens to undermine him as he grapples with an energy crisis and the fallout of war.

Tunisia's new constitution giving the president far greater powers is to come into effect after the official electoral commission announced final results on Tuesday for last month's referendum.

Power cuts are likely and some communities could be cut off if roads are disrupted by the weather, the Met Office warned.

Prosecutors say Chail was spotted in the castle grounds at about 8.10am on Christmas Day. The Queen was in her private apartments there at the time. The defendant hasn't yet been asked to enter a plea to any of the charges.

Women in their 20s saw the largest rise, but women age 19 or younger also saw a significant increase.

Seven members of the new Cabinet have been found to have had links with the church, including by participating in events or paying fees.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday said it was “urgent” that the UN’s atomic watchdog be given access to inspect the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Follow FRANCE…

Torrential rainfall hit Paris on Tuesday evening after a recent heatwave across France, flooding metro stations in the French capital.

Experts behind the project claim the technology for "de-extinction" already exists, but others are sceptical.

The gigantic rocket will launch without people on board for its long-delayed debut mission to the moon later this month.

Questions are being raised about the future of the facility's 200 staff and what a "back office" merger between the two agencies would look like.

A corrections captain at the notorious New York City jail complex Rikers Island was stabbed in the neck allegedly by a gangbanger held for the deadly shooting of an innocent bystander.

Gen. George Patton led U.S. forces to capture Messina and secure the liberation of Sicily on August 17, 1943, hours ahead of British and Canadian forces led by Field Marshal Montgomery.

Ethics officials said former City Councilman Mitchell Englander violated gift laws when he accepted cash, liquor and other perks from two businessmen.

The shifting stories and sudden amnesia were among several inconsistencies and contradictions that lawyers for Vanessa Bryant focused on in the trial's fourth day.

Four lines near to London Bridge have now re-opened but delays are expected to continue.

Shell on Tuesday said it plans to shut for two weeks in September a key crude oil pipeline in Gulf of Mexico that supplies oil to Louisiana refineries. The Odyssey and Delta crude pipelines in September will be shut for planned maintenance early-to-mid September…