Waving flags and snapping selfies, thousands of Iranian women on Thursday attended a football match freely for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial stadium restrictions. Elated female fans wore the national green, white and red flag...

Efforts to halt an Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo have made "significant progress", with the virus now contained to a far smaller and mainly rural area, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. "We have put the virus in the corner," Michael Ryan, the executive...

Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk on Thursday won the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize, which was delayed over a sexual harassment scandal, while Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke took the 2019 award, the Swedish Academy said. Tokarczuk, 57, considered the most talented Polish novelist of...

The Turkish lira weakened against the dollar Thursday as investors fretted about negative international reaction to a ground operation launched by Turkish troops against the Kurdish militia in northeast Syria overnight. The lira weakened to 5.88 against dollar from a close of 5.8740 a day...