Lionel Messi gave Barcelona a timely boost on Wednesday by returning to training with the rest of the squad after a calf injury. Messi trained alone in the morning before joining his team-mates in the afternoon, increasing hopes that Barca's captain could play a role against Real Betis in...

Ten of thousands of people have fled to Syria’s border with Turkey in the last few days as a regime army advance pushed further into the opposition’s last major stronghold, residents, rights groups and opposition sources said on Wednesday. They left Maarat al-Numan, a city in Idlib...

Although 50 years have passed since extremist Australian tourist Denis Michael Rohan set fire to East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, Palestinians say the flames are still engulfing the flashpoint site. The 1969 fire has destroyed nearly third of the al-Qiblah mosque, including the 1,000-year...

Venezuelan officials reached out to the US behind President Nicolas Maduro's back solely to discuss his exit from power and free elections, National Security Advisor John Bolton said Wednesday. Bolton's comment came after Maduro said he had authorized the contacts with high level US...