FIFA opened disciplinary proceedings against Luis Rubiales on Thursday after the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president kissed Spain star Jenni Hermoso on the lips following the Women's World Cup final last weekend.
Russia on Thursday extended by three months the detention of Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich, defying pleas for the release of the reporter arrested on the job in March.
King Charles III will travel to France for a state visit next month, Buckingham Palace and the Elysee said Thursday, several months after a scheduled trip was cancelled due to protests.
Zimbabweans queued at polling stations on Thursday as general elections stretched into an unprecedented second day, sparked by delays that fuelled opposition accusations of vote-rigging.
Hundreds of firefighters in Greece struggled Thursday to tame major wildfires burning for a sixth day, leaving 20 dead and prompting growing outrage among stricken residents.
The BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- agreed at their annual summit to make Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates full members from Jan. 1.
At least 23 workers were feared dead following an under-construction railway bridge collapse in the northeastern state of Mizoram, while 12 people lost their lives in the relentless rains in the state of Himachal Pradesh.
The Taiwanese Ministry of National Defense said there was no evidence to confirm a submarine sinking in the Taiwan Strait. Chinese officials neither confirmed nor denied the claims, true to their reputation of staying silent in such situations.
An ex-headmistress who sexually abused two sisters at an Australian Jewish school, before fleeing to Israel then being extradited back, was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in jail.
Maria Sanchez walks slowly through her house in the Venezuelan capital with two surgical drainage bags hanging from her waist -- the nightmare result of her search for the perfect derriere.
Denmark's spy agencies go on trial on Thursday in a unique case brought by a Dane who claims he spied for Denmark in Syria but wound up in prison over alleged IS group ties.
The head of the Wagner mercenary group, which in June attempted to topple Russia's military leadership, was on board a plane that crashed on Wednesday, with all passengers killed, Russian officials said.
North Korea's latest attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit has ended in failure, state media said Thursday, just months after Pyongyang's first launch crashed into the ocean shortly after blast off.
Engineers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were due to start releasing wastewater on Thursday in an operation that Japan insists is safe but which has angered China and caused unease elsewhere.
Argentina has been hit by a wave of looting that has ratcheted up political tensions ahead of October elections as the country grapples with 113 percent annual inflation.
The head of the Wagner group that in June attempted to topple Russia's military leadership was on the passengers list of a plane that crashed Wednesday, Russian news agencies said.
Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was feared dead Wednesday in a plane crash near Moscow, was a Kremlin confident catapulted to infamy by Russia's offensive in Ukraine before he turned his troops on Russia's capital.
Tearful Ukrainian families mourned their loved ones killed by a Russian strike on the northern city of Chernihiv, with many venting anger at the organisers of a drone conference inside a theatre that was hit.
The incident occurred in the Tver region, near the village of Kuzhenkino.
Zimbabwe's opposition leader on Wednesday accused the ruling ZANU-PF government of plunging the country into crisis by "rigging" a tense election marred by long delays and reports of voter intimidation.
The head of Spain's conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) will face a parliamentary vote to become prime minister in September even though he lacks the necessary support in the assembly.
India landed its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft near the moon's south pole, becoming only the fourth nation to do so.
Thailand's new prime minister vowed to bring four years of change to the kingdom as he took office Wednesday at the head of a controversial coalition including pro-military parties linked to former coup-makers.
BRICS leaders on Wednesday will debate admitting new members to their five-nation bloc as it pursues a bigger role in shaping world affairs it sees as dominated by western powers.
Nicknamed "General Armageddon" for his ruthless methods, Sergei Surovikin was one of the leading commanders of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine until his sacking which was announced on Wednesday.
Greek firefighters on Wednesday struggled to contain uncontrolled fires throughout the country for a fifth day, several of them bordering an acrid, smoke-filled Athens.
The head of Russia's aerospace force General Sergei Surovikin has been sacked, state media said Wednesday, after he disappeared from public view following a failed mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group in June.
The BRP Sierra Madre is a dilapidated World War II-era ship that is now used as a military outpost on the Second Thomas Shoal in Manila's exclusive economic zone. China calls this area the Renai Reef and claims it as its sovereign territory.
China, along with some activists in Japan and South Korea, are urging Japan to cancel its plan of discharging Fukushima waste water into the ocean.
Ukrainian professor-turned-soldier Fedir Shandor shot to fame when he taught his students remotely from the trenches.
