A Chinese plane that slid off the runway at Manila airport was removed from the muddy spot where it had been stuck for more than a day, officials said, allowing normal operations to resume on Saturday.

Italy was preparing an official day of mourning Saturday to commemorate the dozens of people killed in Genoa's bridge disaster with some outraged relatives of victims set to shun the official ceremonies.

Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan was sworn in at a ceremony in Islamabad on Saturday, officially taking over the reins of power in the nuclear-armed country after his party won a July 25 election.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit Pyongyang next month at the invitation of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un to attend the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding ...

Top names in French cooking, as well as foreign followers and hundreds of well-wishers, attended a memorial service yesterday for Joel Robuchon, the world’s most-starred Michelin chef who died earlier this month.

It’s “terribly important” for girls to see women in top-flight careers on the big screen, according to Dame Emma Thompson who plays a high court judge in her new film.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned against expectations that her meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin today will produce any breakthrough on the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.

Italy’s government has launched a formal procedure aimed at revoking concessions held by Autostrade per l’Italia to operate toll highways after a bridge it managed collapsed this week, killing at least 38 people.

Pakistan’s World Cup cricket hero Imran Khan was formally elected prime minister yesterday, promising a new era of responsibility and prosperity in a fighting speech in parliament.

A Turkish court has refused to release an American pastor at the centre of an escalating diplomatic and trade spat between Washington and Ankara, with the US warning of more sanctions.

A year after a religious extremist rampage in Catalonia killed 16 people, Spain paid homage to the victims yesterday without managing to set aside bitter divisions over the region’s independence.

Former CIA directors and another half dozen of America’s most senior spies have issued an unprecedented condemnation of President Donald Trump, after his decision to blacklist their colleague John Brennan.