Germany's most populous state goes to the polls Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel's party aiming to extend a winning streak that could seriously damage her rival before national elections. One in five German voters -- 13.1 million -- will cast ballots in North Rhine-Westphalia, a...

Marine Le Pen needs to learn the lessons from her French presidential election defeat to Emmanuel Macron and accept that her National Front (FN) party must drop its policy of quitting the euro, one of her top aides said Thursday. The European Union was the second most important issue for...

Bangladesh police Thursday raided a suspected Islamist hideout in an operation that left five relatives and a fire officer dead, officials said. Police shot dead the five people, all from the same family, as they emerged from a house in northwest Bangladesh, senior police officer Sumit...

A Syrian migrant has been jailed for life in Austria for executing 20 wounded government soldiers in his home country. The court in the western city of Innsbruck announced its ruling late Wednesday after a jury found the 27-year-old guilty of 20 charges of "murder as a terror offence"....