The UN Security Council on Friday gave the green light to a new African Union force in Somalia that is meant to take on the Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab, with the soldiers due to deploy in January.
English Championship side Stoke sacked manager Narcis Pelach on Friday after just 19 games game in charge. The Spaniard, who was appointed in September at the age of 36, won just three of the 18 ...
The stock market slipped on Friday to close out a holiday-shortened week, erasing this year’s Santa Claus rally so far. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 334 points, or 0.8%. The S&P 500 ...
Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca said it is not realistic to suffer just one Premier League defeat every two months as he challenged his players to react positively to a shock 2-1 home defeat by Fulham.
Ukraine on Friday received its first batch of liquefied natural gas from the US, a deal that Kyiv says will boost Ukrainian and European energy security as a major gas transit deal with Russia ends.
Tens of thousands of people in Bosnia were still without electricity Friday due to a snowstorm, as rescuers found the body of a weather station employee dead on a mountain.
China's commerce ministry on Friday launched an investigation into imported beef at the request of representatives from its struggling domestic industry, it said.
Australian supermaxi LawConnect took back-to-back line honours in the Sydney-Hobart ocean race early Saturday, leading a fleet shaken by the deaths of two sailors in wild weather conditions.