EU nations have to accept changes of first name and gender obtained in other countries in the bloc, the European Union's top court ruled Friday, in a decision hailed by activists.

How do you defend the indefensible? Beatrice Zavarro, a lawyer for Dominique Pelicot, who has admitted to charges of enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his then wife, knows she has an almost ...

More than 100 elephants in northern Thailand have been moved to higher ground to escape rapidly rising flood waters, local media reported, but many other animals were still stuck as their sanctuary ...

Russian rescue teams succeeded on Friday in saving a family of orcas who had become beached in shallow water in the far east of the country.

A source close to Hezbollah said Friday that the Lebanese militant group's slain chief Hassan Nasrallah has been temporarily buried in a secret location for fear Israel would target a large funeral.

In line with the MoU, both the parties envision to jointly explore setting up of solar/wind hybrid renewable projects up to 2 ...

The People’s Daily released a documentary that tells how, over the past 75 years, the country has embarked on an arduous journey of national development and modernization, transforming itself from a ...

Leading academic publisher Springer Nature made its stock market debut Friday, one of the few initial public offerings in Frankfurt this year despite the exchange's strong performance.

A beluga whale found dead in Norway in August, suspected by some of being a Russian spy, probably died of an infection and not gunshot wounds, Norwegian police said Friday.

Soon after sunrise on the Thai island of Phuket, a swordsman chants an incantation and slowly slides the first of three blades through the right cheek of the woman sitting calmly below him.

Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba warned in his first policy speech Friday that "today's Ukraine could be tomorrow's East Asia", saying that the world is becoming ever more divided.

EU countries gave a definitive green light on Friday to hefty additional tariffs on electric cars made in China, despite German warnings that it will spark a trade war with Beijing.