Chinese President Xi Jinping swore in Hong Kong's new leader on Saturday with a stark warning that Beijing won't tolerate any challenge to its authority in the divided city as it marked the 20th anniversary of its return from Britain to China. Police blocked roads, preventing pro-democracy...

A tanker carrying 38,000 tons of petroleum products and a 220-meter (720-foot) cargo ship collided Saturday in the waters between France and Britain, French authorities said. No one was injured in the crash between the boats and "no pollution has been detected at this stage", the authorities...

A House panel has approved a measure calling for debate on new presidential war powers as the U.S. gets more involved in Syria's civil war. The measure proposed by an anti-war Democrat, congresswoman Barbara Lee of California, is now part of a military spending bill. The Republican-led House...

British Prime Minister Theresa May is making Brexit minister David Davis's job of delivering Brexit harder because of her "absolutist" approach, according to his chief of staff who resigned last month. James Chapman told the BBC that said May's insistence that the European Court of Justice...