Germany may have dodged a recession but its economic performance in 2018 was still the weakest in five years, adding to evidence that trade tensions and a sharp slowdown in China are hampering global growth.
A pregnant lawmaker has delayed the birth of her second child, against doctors' advice, in order to vote against UK Prime Minister Theresa May's beleaguered EU withdrawal deal on Tuesday.
The mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk is in serious condition after he was stabbed in the heart and stomach by a man who rushed on stage during an open-air charity event Sunday, a press officer at Gdansk City Hall told CNN.
Carlos Ghosn's wife has slammed the Japanese legal system as "draconian" in a letter that says her husband has been "callously and needlessly" detained.
A traveler carrying a firearm successfully boarded a flight from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and flew to Tokyo Narita International Airport on January 3, according to a statement from the Transportation Security Administration.
If this was the final match of Andy Murray's career, the Briton made sure his swansong was a memorable one -- losing a four-hour, five-set thriller to Roberto Bautista Agut in Melbourne.
Indonesian Navy divers have successfully recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from Lion Air Flight 610, a discovery that could help solve the mystery of why the brand new Boeing 737 plunged into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people on board.
At least 16 people have died in avalanche-related accidents in Europe since the start of the year, as severe winter weather grips parts of the continent.
A two-year-old boy is the focus of a major rescue operation Monday, after falling into a 360-foot-deep well in the southern Spanish province of Málaga on Sunday afternoon.
A British-Iranian woman who has been jailed in Iran since 2016 began a hunger strike Monday in a desperate attempt to receive medical treatment, as her husband said that prison guards had asked her to spy on the UK in return for her freedom.
A Nobel Prize-winning American scientist who co-discovered DNA has been stripped of his honorary titles at the laboratory he once led after repeating racist comments in a documentary.
