Oil prices rise, with Brent crude up 0.2% at $73.00 a barrel and WTI up 0.3% at $69.81 a barrel. Oil's gains reflect market optimism around a recovery in demand for crude from China, with government ...

World number two Iga Swiatek said on Friday she was ready to put a drugs scandal behind her, insisting there was no reason ...

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A former CEO of Japanese optical equipment firm Olympus was found guilty on Friday of a drug charge, with a Tokyo court handing down a suspended jail sentence.

China on Friday warned the United States it did "not tolerate interference" after the US State Department called Hong Kong's announcement of bounties on six democracy campaigners based overseas "a ...

Iran's top diplomat warned Friday against "destructive interference" in Syria's future and said decisions should lie solely with the country's people, writing in Chinese state media as he visited ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved parliament on Friday and confirmed the expected February date for an early ...

Bitcoin price rises and looks to end the year up about 100%, fueled by hopes that Trump will boost the crypto further.

Croatians will vote for a new president on Sunday, with many analysts saying incumbent left-wing populist Zoran Milanovic is a clear frontrunner.

Croatians will vote Sunday in the Balkan country's presidential election, with opinion polls widely predicting the outspoken ...

West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS has come to Nigeria's defence after claims by Niger that it was plotting to destabilise its neighbour.

A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention centre at age 78, officials said on Friday.