France's scandal-hit presidential candidate Francois Fillon came under renewed attack from within his conservative camp Wednesday ahead of planned talks with former president Nicolas Sarkozy that Fillon hopes will restore party unity. Rebel conservative lawmaker Georges Fenech said his The...

India successfully put a record 104 satellites from a single rocket into orbit Wednesday in the latest triumph for its famously frugal space agency. Scientists who were at the launch in the southern spaceport of Sriharikota burst into applause as the head of India's Space Research...

Kazakhstan said Wednesday a new round of Astana talks on the Syria conflict led by Russia, Turkey and Iran scheduled to begin Feb. 15 would be delayed by a day due to unexplained "technical reasons". "The negotiations have been moved to Feb. 16 for technical reasons," a spokeswoman for the...

South Korea's special prosecutor's office said on Wednesday it had expanded charges against Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee to include hiding the proceeds of a criminal act before it decided to seek a warrant for his arrest. A Seoul court said on Tuesday it would hold a hearing on Thursday to...