Thursday's attacks on Riyadh airport killed three people, Saudi authorities said on Friday, as Yemen's Houthi group ​stepped up missile strikes on the kingdom and tried to shut down its airspace in an escalating war ‌triggered by the US-Iran conflict.

French police Thursday fired tear gas and sprayed demonstrators rallying at the Place de la Bastille in Paris for improved schools in the country.

Russian strikes killed two people and wounded five more across Ukraine, officials said Friday, as Ukraine struggles to counter escalating Russian bombardments that have killed more than 50 people over

U.S. authorities charged the former Venezuelan president with conspiring to torture his fellow citizens as well as Americans. That adds to drugs and weapons charges against him.

South Africa's Department ⁠of ⁠Home Affairs said on ⁠Friday it had withdrawn a directive allowing the ​intake of asylum applications, a day after anti-migrant protests turned violent in Johannesburg ‌and Durban.

Maricarmen Abascal's eviction from her Madrid apartment of 70 years sparked massive protests, but her death has now deepened Spain's housing crisis.

Anne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to

Germany's former spy chief August Hanning, who has been placed under arrest ​for suspected espionage, had longstanding contacts to ‌a former senior Chinese general, Spiegel magazine reported.