Reigning UFC lightweight champion of the world Khabib Nurmagomedov opened his brand new gym in Dagestan and said that it would form the basecamp for his training ahead of his UFC 249 clash with Tony Ferguson in...

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Friday he was sticking with plans to reform France’s pension system but insisted change would be gradual and “not brutal,” Reuters reports.“I believe in social dialogue… I wi...

European parties to the Iran nuclear deal did not trigger a mechanism that could lead to the renewal of UN sanctions at talks in Vienna on Friday, according to China’s envoy.“All countries need to refrain from taki...

Russia will not hesitate to respond to any new deployment of missiles by the United States, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.“If practical steps are taken to create and deploy [missiles], we will have...

Turkey turned to the Russian-made S-400s as it didn’t succeed in getting air-defense systems from its closest NATO allies including the US, France and Italy, its foreign minister explained....

British broadcaster Channel 4 has apologized for, and deleted, a video misquoting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as saying he wanted democratic control over the migration of “people of color.”...

The "Clash on the Dunes" rematch between Andy Ruiz Jr and Anthony Joshua was finally made official as the pair weighed in ahead of their heavyweight championship rematch in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia....

Premier League football club Manchester United announced on Friday a new partnership with e-commerce giant Alibaba as it aims to raise its profile and merchandise sales in the world’s second-largest economy....

US President Donald Trump has fired off another volley of Twitter wisdom in his endless war against ‘fake news,’ advising people to ignore stories based on information from unnamed sources....

The shooter at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola (US Navy base in Florida) is dead, the Escambia County Sheriff's office said. Navy later confirmed another person was killed. The fa...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allied oil exporters led by Russia have reportedly agreed to deepen production cuts and to reduce daily output by 500,000 barrels during their mee...

Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson have traded blows after the Labour leader produced what he says is an official UK govt document that proves the PM’s Brexit deal will have damaging effects for the UK, especially...

At least two people have died after a six-storey residential building collapsed in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Rescue efforts are still ongoing, with 11 people, including children, pulled from the rubble so far....

Commissioning of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which is a commercial project, does not mean that Russia will abandon gas transit through Ukraine, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday....

A massive gas explosion has ripped through an apartment building in Presov, eastern Slovakia with at least one person confirmed dead after falling from a balcony, according to police....

An Israeli group uses social media to vilify the first two Muslim women to serve in US Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. But will the revelation spark accusations of foreign meddling? Omar doesn’t seem to...

Uber has published its first safety report detailing the number of serious crimes committed by both drivers and riders that use the platform. “The numbers are jarring and hard to digest,” the firm’s chief legal...

Ukraine will wall off its breakaway eastern regions if the upcoming Paris talks end up at an impasse, a presidential aide has suggested, and Israel looks set to become Kiev’s wall-building role model, according...

Despite Washington's attempts to turn its allies away from working with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, Portugal is not going to exclude the company from the rollout of 5G networks on its territory....

A Tory candidate has been filmed at a hustings event being jeered after claiming those with learning difficulties shouldn’t be paid the minimum wage because “it’s about the happiness to work.”...

Iraq’s top Shiite Muslim cleric said on Friday that a new prime minister must be chosen without foreign interference after the incumbent Adel Abdul Mahdi announced his resignation a week ago.Grand Ayatollah Ali al-...

South Africa’s beleaguered flagship carrier, South African Airways (SAA) has received a 4 billion rand ($272 million) lifeline from the government and banks. It’s the latest in a seri...

The brutal and tragic case of raped and murdered 26-year-old veterinarian Priyanka Reddy has gripped India and now, for a brief moment at least, women are celebrating the fatal shootings of the four accused men....

Russia’s Soyuz 2.1a carrier rocket has successfully lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, delivering life-supporting cargo for the International Space Stations (ISS) crew....

Greece is expelling the Libyan ambassador to the country, angered at an accord signed on November 27 between Libya and Turkey mapping out a sea boundary between the two countries close to Crete.Mohamed Younis AB Me...

While the prospect of a polar research expedition in the Antarctic might seem like a dream come true for many, the reality of prolonged darkness in isolation is so severe that it actually shrinks parts of the hu...

US diplomats in China will now have to notify the Foreign Ministry before meeting with local officials, Beijing has announced. China said the measure was in response to Washington’s diplomatic restrictions on it...

Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco has just pulled off the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history, raising $25.6 billion. The IPO, however, fell short of the Saudi Crown Prince’s $2 tr...

Beijing is working to exclude some soybean and pork shipments from its retaliatory tariffs on Washington, China’s Finance Ministry has said, citing a decision by the tariff commission....

Moscow’s envoy to the UN joked to Donald Trump about the White House’s interior after touring the US president’s residence. The two also discussed the ongoing visa dispute. Vasily Neb...