A major fire broke out at the medieval Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on Monday afternoon, leading firefighters to clear the area around one of the city's most visited landmarks. Smoke could be seen billowing out from the top of the gothic cathedral, as flames lept out besides...

Syria adopted new measures Sunday to curb fuel shortages Bashar Assad's regime has blamed on strangling Western sanctions on the war-torn country. Syrian authorities are seeking to "regulate the distribution at petrol stations" and to ensure even deliveries across to country while...

Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer may face another spell on the sidelines after being substituted with a calf injury during Sunday's win over Fortuna Duesseldorf. Neuer picked up the injury early in the first half of Bayern's 4-1 win, pulling up after making an apparently innocuous...

Palestinian government ministers were sworn in for a second time on Sunday after a lawyer noticed that the oath they took the day before had been missing a phrase. Lawyer Nael al-Hawah spotted the omission after Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh's new government was sworn in...