Tensions between the UK and Spain are escalating over Gibraltar. London is threatening to take unprecedented action against Madrid, while the latter i...
Researchers in Italy have excavated bones in a tomb in Florence in a bid to identify the Renaissance model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The rese...
American billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey says she ran into Swiss racism when a clerk at Trois Pommes, a pricey Zurich boutique, refused to show ...
Japanese residents are protesting against the country's nuclear power policy following revelations that over 300 tons of contaminated water flow daily...
Foreign and defense ministers from the United States and Russia have agreed to host a peace conference on Syria in Geneva as soon as possible. The con...
Meanwhile, the Dutch embassy in Yemen remains closed due to security concerns, following a similar move by other European countries. A number of Europ...
Inflation in China has come in lower than market expectation, rising 2.7 percent in July on an annualized basis. This is the same increase seen in Jun...
The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki has taken time to criticize the Japanese government's refusal to sign a non-proliferation treaty earlier th...
The authorities on Taiwan have officially lifted all 11-sanctions they had in-place against the Philippines. The sanctions were originally imposed fol...
With the current heat wave gripping many parts of China, people in some of the worst-affected cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou are scrambling to try to...