China stocks began 2016's final week on a bearish note, as lower commodity prices hurt raw material and energy shares. Hong Kong markets were closed on Monday for a holiday. The CSI300 index was down 0.6 percent, to 3,286.47 points, at the end of the morning session, while the Shanghai...

An unexploded British bomb from World War Two forced 54,000 people out of their homes in Germany on Christmas Day, the country's biggest such evacuation since the end of hostilities. The huge operation on Sunday in the southern city of Augsburg took 11 hours, involved 900 police officers and...

This is the third Christmas that Staff Sergeant Magdiel Asencio is spending in Iraq. For Sergeant First Class Noel Alvarado, it is number four. And so it is with many U.S. troops stationed less than a hour's drive from the front line with Islamic State. Few thought they would be back nearly...

Christians in Aleppo celebrated under a giant Christmas tree lit up for the first time in five years, hailing what many described as the return of peace to a city that came back under full government control last week. The fall of rebel-held east Aleppo was the biggest victory of...