Hundreds party like Marie-Antoinette at Versailles costume ball
Hundreds of guests donned soaring wigs and elaborate 18th-century dress to indulge their royal fantasies at a ball at the Palace of Versailles on Monday,...
Factbox: Oklahoma becomes first U.S. state to take drugmaker to trial over opioids
Johnson & Johnson is set to face trial on Tuesday in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing the drugmaker of helping...
Iran Foreign Ministry: No prospect of negotiations with U.S.
Iran sees no prospect of negotiations with the United States, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said...
Corden to return to ‘Gavin & Stacey’ hit show with Christmas special
Actor and talk show host James Corden said on Tuesday he was returning to his British comedy television roots this Christmas, co-writing and starring in...
Austria’s Kurz leaves office, eyes return within months
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz left office on Tuesday after parliament voted out his conservative provisional government, blaming him in part for a political crisis triggered...
Cannes winner ‘Parasite’ captures rich-poor gap through family: director
The South Korean director of “Parasite,” a darkly comic movie that won the top Palme d’Or prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, discusses his...
Malawi’s Mutharika narrowly wins presidential race with 38.57% of the vote
President Peter Mutharika won Malawi’s presidential election with 38.57% of votes, the electoral commission said on Monday, narrowly securing another five-year term after delays over...
Merkel heir faces widespread criticism after proposal to regulate online opinion
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s heir apparent faced criticism from across Germany’s political spectrum on Tuesday after she called for rules about expressing online opinions before elections...
Freed Sri Lanka Buddhist monk vows to expose Islamist militancy
A hardline Buddhist monk accused of inciting violence against minority Muslims in Sri Lanka said on Tuesday he planned to denounce Islamist militants after he...
After coal, forest-rich Finland will need to import biomass to keep warm
Finland faces having to import biomass because, despite being Europe’s most densely forested country, it will be unable to meet an expected 70% rise in...
