Australia's most decorated Olympian, swimmer Emma McKeon, has retired from the sport
The 30-year-old won six gold medals in a haul of 14 won across three Olympic Games.
"I am officially retiring from competitive swimming," she wrote on (...)
Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Simon Harris has apologized to a disability care worker he walked away from when she tried to ask him about low pay in her job sector.
Charlotte Fallon stopped Harris in County Cork on Friday to ask him a question (...)
Chioma is adamant that Hope, the baby boy she is holding in her arms, is her son. After eight years of failed attempts to conceive, she sees him as her miracle baby.
"I'm the owner of my baby," she says defiantly.
She's sitting next to her husband, (...)
At least five people have died as Storm Bert swept across the United Kingdom, causing power outages and widespread train and flight cancelations.
Dramatic footage that emerged over the weekend showed rivers in Wales, one of the hardest hit areas, (...)
A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours.
Drone footage from the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (...)
In a video circulating online, a man dressed in military clothing identifies himself as James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, and says he formerly served in the British Army. Russian state news agency Tass quotes a military source saying that what they (...)
A far-right, pro-Russia candidate has taken a surprise lead in the first round of Romania's presidential election, with preliminary results putting his pro-Europe rival in close second.
With 96% of votes counted, ultranationalist Calin Georgescu was (...)
The three Gardai – Irish police officers – walk down the rows of passengers on the bus, a few kilometers south of the border with Northern Ireland.
Observing this is the head of the Garda National Immigration Bureau, Det Ch Supt Aidan Minnock.
"If (...)
The round-the-clock protests in Tbilisi follow the 26 October elections that kept the governing pro-Russian Georgian Dream party in power. Opponents say the vote was rigged and suspect neighboring Russia of election interference.
Thousands of people (...)
Swiss voters took to the polls on Sunday to vote no to bigger motorways, no to easier evictions and tighter subletting rules and yes to a new healthcare financing model.
The Swiss government's proposal to allocate €5.3 million for expanding (...)
The EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell has said UN peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon have the "strong support" of the bloc after meeting their commander in Beirut.
Borrell held talks with UNFIL's Head of Mission and Force Commander (...)
A ceasefire deal between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is "very close," a regional source told CNN on Sunday, even as an uptick in Israeli attacks saw the death toll in Lebanon since mid-September pass a grim milestone.
More than (...)
Israel's military says around 250 rockets have been fired by Hezbollah across the border from Lebanon, marking one of the heaviest bombardments of Israel since fighting intensified in September.
Several people were injured and buildings damaged in (...)
The former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was once described as the world's most powerful woman. Here she talks to the BBC's Katya Adler about Ukraine, Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat -- and how she handled Donald Trump.
Angela Merkel led Germany (...)
At least one person has died and three others have been injured after a cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport in Lithuania in the early hours of Monday.
The Boeing 737, operated for DHL by the Spanish cargo airline Swiftair, crashed near a house (...)
The northern Indian city of Sambhal is on alert after four people died and dozens were injured in violent clashes over a centuries-old mosque on Sunday.
Clashes broke out between protesters and the police during a court-monitored survey of the Shahi (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Investment Khalid Al-Falih said that the number of foreign investors, who have obtained the premium residency in Saudi Arabia in less than a year after its launch, reached 1,238.
Addressing the World Investment Conference (...)
Museums are home to ancient artefacts and relics of bygone eras. Cigarettes belong there, but current policies to reduce smoking prevalence are not working fast enough and may be prolonging the problem.
Traditional measures to end smoking focus on (...)
A left-wing former history teacher, Yamandú Orsi, has won the presidential election in Uruguay.
Orsi beat Álvaro Delgado, the candidate for the governing conservative coalition, by more than three percentage points in Sunday's run-off.
Delgado (...)
RIYADH — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has ordered the extension of Citizen's Account Program along with the provision of additional support to its beneficiaries for another full year.
This decision was made based on the (...)
Tens of thousands of protesters are closing in on Pakistan's capital Islamabad as part of nationwide protests calling for the release of former prime minister Imran Khan.
Authorities have enforced a security lockdown for the last two days to block (...)
RIYADH — A Saudi special court sentenced six Saudi citizens to five years in prison each and SR50,000 in fines after being convicted of violating the Penal Law of Money Counterfeit.
The Economic Crimes Wing under the Public Prosecution has completed (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Council of Ministers will hold on Tuesday, Nov. 26, a special session to present the state's general budget for the fiscal year 1446/1447 AH (2025), the Saudi Press Agency reported on Monday.
It is noteworthy that the Saudi (...)