The US presidential election is proving a boon for bookmakers, with estimates that more than $1 billion has already been bet on the winner around the world even before polling day. Matthew Shaddick, head of political betting at British sports betting and gambling firm GVC, said that is...

Economic activity in France bounced back strongly in the third quarter following the lifting of the coronavirus lockdown, data showed on Friday, but the government still expects Europe's second-biggest economy to remain deep in recession for the year as a whole. French gross domestic...

Police in Russia shot dead a 16-year-old teenager in the Muslim-majority Tatarstan region after he tried to set fire to a local police station and stabbed a police officer, Russian investigators said on Friday. Russia’s Investigative Committee, which handles major crimes, said in...

More attacks on French soil are likely as France is engaged in a “war against Islamist ideology”, its interior minister said on Friday. A knife-wielding Tunisian man shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city...