Leonardo DiCaprio has issued an impassioned call for immediate action on climate change in "Before the Flood", a documentary film making its European premiere in London on Saturday. The Hollywood megastar, who won this year's best actor Oscar for his role in "The Revenant", takes viewers...

Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE), in another step to move past its costly diesel emissions cheating scandal, has agreed to pay $175 million to U.S. lawyers suing the German automaker on behalf of the owners of 475,000 polluting vehicles, two people briefed on the agreement said on Friday. In...

Libyan pro-government forces have advanced into another area in their battle to liberate Sirte from Islamic State in fighting that killed 14 of their troops, military officials and hospital sources said. After six months of fighting, backed by U.S. air strikes, Libyan forces allied with the...

Russia's U.N. ambassador says a key aim of a high-level meeting on Syria is to get countries that support moderate opposition groups to use their influence to work for a new cease-fire. Vitaly Churkin said Friday that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John...