The British ambassador to Saudi Arabia announced on Twitter that he converted to Islam and carried out a hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, The Telegraph reported.
Congo's justice minister says the ruling party and opposition could share power in an interim government now that it's clear the November presidential election won't take place on time.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday he has never seen tensions on the Korean peninsula as high as they are today and he called on the Security Council to take urgent action to prevent "provocative actions" by North Korea.
The British government says the publicly funded BBC must reveal the salaries of all staff and presenters earning more than 150,000 pounds ($198,000) a year.
Eight asylum seekers are taking legal action against Macedonia for expelling them back to Greece after a chaotic mass border crossing earlier this year.
The president of the European Parliament says he fears that a victory in the U.S. presidential election for Donald Trump, whom he labels "apparently irresponsible," could boost what he calls "imitators" in Europe.
Libya's internationally recognized parliament, which is based in the far east and effectively runs this part of the country, has promoted a powerful general.
A former Guantanamo detainee reportedly has awakened from a coma that resulted from a hunger strike to dramatize his unhappiness about being resettled in Uruguay and his demand to be moved to another country.
Unemployment in bailout-dependent Greece dropped to 23.1 percent between April and June, down from nearly 25 percent in the first quarter but still the worst jobless rate in the European Union.
A new report says Swiss trading companies are blending and dumping dirty fuel in West Africa with more than 100 percent the sulfur levels allowed in Europe, causing health and environmental hazards.
Two foreign tourists were killed and about 20 other people were injured in an explosion Thursday on a speedboat that was ferrying them from the Indonesian tourist island of Bali to neighboring Lombok, police said.
A prominent pro-India Kashmiri politician has resigned from India's Parliament and from his regional party to protest a government crackdown in Kashmir that prevented people from offering Eid prayers for the first time in the troubled region.
A former Filipino militiaman testified before the country's Senate on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still a city mayor, ordered him and other members of a liquidation squad to kill criminals and opponents in gangland-style assaults that left about 1,000 dead.