Classes were suspended and moved online Monday at Iran's leading technology university in Tehran after clashes erupted overnight between students and security forces, local media said.

Brazil's bitterly divisive presidential election is headed for a runoff on October 30 as incumbent Jair Bolsonaro beat expectations to finish a closer-than-expected second to front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Burkina Faso awoke to fresh uncertainty Saturday after its second coup this year when junior officers toppled a junta leader, saying he had failed to fight jihadist attacks in the deeply poor and restive West African nation.

French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti will have to stand trial in a conflict of interest case that has been an embarrassment for President Emmanuel Macron's government, his lawyers said Monday, adding they immediately appealed the move.

Classes were suspended and moved online Monday at Iran's leading technology university in Tehran after clashes erupted overnight between students and security forces, local media said.

"I slept in the basement since day one of this hellish war, but yesterday the shelling stopped," she told AFP on Sunday in the village of Zakitne, 10 miles from the key eastern town of Lyman that the Ukrainian army recaptured from Russian troops thi...

Britain on Monday scrapped plans to axe its top income tax rate just 10 days after a debt-driven budget sparked turmoil on markets and fierce criticism during a cost-of-living crisis.

The change of course by Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng, and by Prime Minister Liz Truss, raised questions about their right-wing project less than a month after she succeeded Boris Johnson. "We get it, and we have listened," Kwarteng sa...

The Academy announced her death in a tweet that quoted Littlefeather as saying: "When I am gone, always be reminded that whenever you stand for your truth, you will be keeping my voice and the voices of our nations and our people alive." Two weeks ...

Seeking to make a spectacular comeback, ex-president and frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 76, failed to garner the 50 percent of votes plus one needed to avoid an October 30 runoff against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, 67. Lula got 48.4...

"It was her first time (at a match)," said Etik, holding back tears outside the intensive care unit at the Saiful Anwar hospital in the centre of the eastern Indonesian city of Malang. Her 21-year-old daughter Dian Puspita was one of the spectators...

They come in all colours: green, red, black, blue, all stored inside and outside a small warehouse in the town of Zelenodolsk. "We keep them for their owners," says municipal worker Vitaliy Rekhlitsky, so that they can come and collect them at the...

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's decision to join the inaugural summit of a pan-European grouping this week has given a boost to the initiative, a brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron that some have written off already as just another talkin...

The high-profile trip will be the first of two this week for the Bidens, who head on Wednesday to Florida to assess the devastating damage caused by Hurricane Ian. Both Puerto Rico and Florida suffered numerous deaths, widespread power outages, dan...