Real Madrid's Croatia midfielder Luka Modric has won the 2018 Ballon d'Or award for the best player in men's football, while Norwegian forward Ada Hegerberg scooped the inaugural women's trophy. Modric's win on Monday at the

Some of the strongest opponents of British Prime Minister Theresa May's deal with the European Union are in Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which props up her minority government. The DUP found itself

Real Madrid's Croatia midfielder Luka Modric has won the 2018 Ballon d'Or award for the best player in men's football, while Norwegian forward Ada Hegerberg scooped the inaugural women's trophy. Modric's win on Monday at the

Irfah Satiri slightly bends down to drag a plastic bag out of the mud at the bottom of a waterway. "Maybe, it's been here for years," he says. The paddy fields that used to

After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft has arrived at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex on Monday pulled within 19km of the diamond-shaped space

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose controversial war on drugs has killed thousands since he took power in 2016, has said he used cannabis to stay awake, but later retracted it, saying he was joking. The

  Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika named Ahmed Ouyahia, head of the Rassemblement National Democratique (RND), the second-largest party of Algeria and an ally of the National Liberation Front (FLN), as prime minister on Aug.

CAIRO: An Egyptian criminal court has ordered the conditional release of prominent blogger and journalist Wael Abbas, a judicial source said on Monday, rejecting an appeal by state security prosecutors to keep him in

VATICAN CITY: The Vatican expressed concern over the status of Jerusalem on Monday as Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held their first meeting since the United States stirred international anxiety by moving

CIA Director Gina Haspel will give a closed briefing to leaders of several US Senate committees this week on the killing of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, US media reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.