Need some election interference? The Russian Foreign Ministry is ready to help – or so it says on April Fools' Day. On Saturday, the ministry posted on its Facebook page an audio file of the purported new automated telephone switchboard message for Russian embassies. "To arrange a call...

Barcelona boss Luis Enrique claimed Lionel Messi's behavior toward referees is "impeccable" despite the Argentine racking up suspensions for club and country. Messi is banned for the first time in five seasons for Sunday's La Liga trip to Granada just days after being slapped with a...

The Pompidou Center modern art museum – one of the biggest tourist draws in the French capital – will remain closed this weekend because of a week-long strike by security guards, its management said. Around 100 guards walked out on Monday over a new law which forces them to become civil...

Tunisian activists say they are frustrated by the slow progress on reforms to improve civil liberties six years after an uprising calling for more freedoms in the North African country. The 2011 revolution that toppled longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ushered in a new era of freedom...