The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a knife attack in Hamburg on October 16 that left a teenager dead, IS-affiliated news agency Amaq reported.

A strong earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude struck central Italy on Sunday, causing the collapse of more buildings in small cities and towns already shaken by tremors in the past two months ...

Three astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday following a 115-day mission aboard the the International Space Station, including US astronaut Kate Rubins, the first person to sequence DNA in space.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attending a Republic Day ceremony at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of modern Turkey’s founder Ataturk, to mark the republic’s anniversary in Ankara yesterday.

Hillary Clinton embarks this weekend on the frenetic final 10 days of her White House campaign, determined to shake off renewed controversy over the FBI probe into her private e-mails.

To say Kunal Nayyar looks up to his wife would be an understatement — he barely reaches the beauty queen’s shoulder when she puts on stiletto heels for the red carpet.

Allegations that Myanmar soldiers are killing, raping and torturing villagers in Rakhine, a restive region that is home to the persecuted Muslim Rohingya, must be independently investigated, rights groups said.

Thousands of Thais streamed into the gates of Bangkok’s Grand Palace yesterday as the public was granted its first chance to enter the throne hall where the body of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej is lying in state.

Venezuela’s political crisis and Colombia’s stuttering peace process looked certain to dominate the Ibero-American Summit today rather than an official agenda about youth, entrepreneurship and education.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that his government would ask parliament to consider reintroducing the death penalty as a punishment for the plotters behind the July coup bid.

Spain’s former Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez, who was ousted in a party rebellion this month, announced yesterday that he had quit as lawmaker, just hours before his conservative rival was voted back in power.

Spanish conservative leader Mariano Rajoy won a parliamentary vote to be prime minister yesterday, ending 10 months of political gridlock that had left the country without a fully-functioning government.