Instagram is back up after suffering a partial outage for over several hours, the photo-sharing social network platform said in a tweet, but its parent Facebook Inc’s app still seemed to be down for some users across the globe. Certain users around the world were facing trouble in...

The head of the Saudi human rights commission said on Thursday that the kingdom was bringing those accused over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to justice and rejected an international investigation into the case. Three dozen Western countries, including all 28 European Union...

Venezuela’s president on Wednesday said a commission would be formed to probe the "sabotage" that led to large-scale power cuts last week. Nicolas Maduro held an inspection at the crisis desks in Caracas that is investigating the power cuts that also disrupted communication and internet...

An oil slick was heading towards the French coastline on Thursday after an Italian cargo ship sank in the Atlantic carrying 45 containers of "dangerous materials", authorities said. The sheet of oil, 10 kilometres (six miles) long and one km wide, could hit parts of the country's southwest...