Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott asked officials on Friday to re-think restrictions on members of the public wearing face-coverings such as burqas in parliament following a public backlash against the measures.
Britain will quit the European Court of Human Rights unless it agrees that theWestminster parliament has the final say over its rulings, Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives said on Friday.
Pierre Moscovici must answer further written questions from the European Parliament's economic affairs committee by late on Sunday before it considers again his nomination as EU economics commissioner, lawmakers said on Friday.
Serra and his partner Maria Herrera were found dead on Wednesday in their Caracas home after being stabbed and possibly tortured. Government officials have launched an investigation into their murders.
Censors on the U.S. Motion Picture Association of America have given an award-winning British LGBT title from Cannes film festival a very restrictive rating, citing fans of the movie to call the board homophobic.
Parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann have received an onslaught of online abuse and death threats in recent weeks, officials said Thursday.
President goes as far as suggesting the U.S. government may try to assassinate her Political attack ads in the U. S. often claim that a political opponent isn't in touch with reality.
Nearly 10,000 people have been killed in Iraq in 2014 The conflict in Iraq has had tremendous consequences on civilians in Iraq with 26,000 civilian casualties this year, according to a report from the United Nations.
President Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum that would allow children from various regions, including Central America, to apply for asylum for the 2015 fiscal year.
Typhoon Phanfone is intensifying in the Pacific Ocean, possibly to super typhoon status, as it travels along a projected path that shows the storm making a direct hit on Japan's Ryukyu Islands this weekend before continuing on to mainland Japan early next week.
Residents living on the south and southwestern coasts of Mexico are being pummeled with tropical storms this hurricane season, and as of Wednesday evening yet another tropical depression has formed in the area and is forecast to become a tropical storm by Thursday.
In the heart of Mong Kok, one of the most densely populated districts on earth, an abandoned Hong Kong police van is enveloped in the student-led demonstrations paralyzing swathes of the city.
Argentina's central bank chief resigned on Wednesday after a long tussle with the economy minister and was replaced with a regulator seen as sympathetic to the interventionist stance of a government fighting one of the world's highest inflation rates.
The Palestinians have drafted a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an end to Israeli occupation by November 2016, which they have shared informally with Arab states and some council members, U.N. diplomats said on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela publicly asked for answers from Alejandro Moncada Luna, a former chief justice of the Supreme Court, after a local newspaper reported that he bought millions of dollars worth of property in cash.
Venezuela fights Clorox over abandoning two facilities The Clorox Company announced it will abandon two of its factories in Venezuela because price controls in the country are too strict, but the country's president wants to take over the abandoned buildings.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly to refute the "brazen lies" spoken by other world leaders at the same UN podium.
Recently, Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera announced his plan to combat violence against women in his country, which reportedly has some of the highest rates of male violence in Latin America.
