Beijing - China has commuted the death sentence of former tycoon Wu Ying to 25 years imprisonment, state media said Saturday.   The 36-year-old was convicted in 2007 of scamming investors out of...

Paris - A policeman injured in a terror attack in southern France on Friday has died, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said early Saturday.   The 45-year-old gendarmerie officer had volunteered...

Melbourne - Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest time in the first practice session at the Australian Grand Prix on Friday, clocking a lap time of 1 minute 24.026 seconds.   The Mercedes driver...

BERLIN (dpa)- Big data, profiling and micro-targeting: To most people outside of the tech industry, these words have little meaning. But the current scandal around Cambridge Analytica and Facebook...

ISTANBUL, Shabtai Gold and Caroline Bock (dpa)- Turkey's largest media group has initiated talks for a sale it hopes will be worth 1.1 billion dollars to a rival conglomerate seen as friendly towards...

The predominantly Catholic Philippines is the only country in the world that has no divorce law. But advocates are hopeful that this is about to change as the House of Representatives holds plenary...

Brussels/Moscow - By Peter Spinella, Helen Maguire and Claudia Thaler, - Russian President Vladimir Putin won re-election to his fourth term with 76.7 per cent of Sunday's vote, the state's Central...

Sydney - By Frank Walker, - The 10 member states of the Association of South East Asian Nations were "cautiously encouraged" by the prospect of a meeting between US President Trump and North Korean...

Cairo - Turkish forces were Sunday pushing deep into Afrin in northern Syria, hours after they entered the mostly Kurdish city as part of a two-month offensive, a monitoring group reported.  ...