French police raided the homes Monday of dozens of suspected militants three days after the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the interior minister said. The raids came a day after tens of thousands of people took part in rallies countrywide...

Almost every day Wafa Ali Mustafa posts a number to Facebook. Today she has counted to 2663. Each number represents a day since her father went missing in Damascus more than seven years ago. It is a bitter truth that the disappearance of Wafa's father, Ali, is far from an isolated case....

Worldwide coronavirus cases crossed 40 million on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, as the onset of winter in the northern hemisphere fuelled a resurgence in the spread of the disease. The Reuters tally is based on official reporting by individual countries. Experts believe the true...

Belgium imposed a nationwide overnight curfew on Monday as Switzerland made wearing face masks compulsory in indoor public spaces, the latest desperate measures by European governments to fight a powerful second coronavirus wave. More than 250,000 people have died of the virus in Europe but...