Vote counting was underway in Thailand's early general election on Sunday, seen as a three-way race among competing visions of progressive, populist and old-fashioned patronage politics.

Fires damaged Italy's northern rail line on the first day of the Winter Olympic Games in what investigators are calling acts of sabotage by arsonists.

Investigators arrested four suspects, including the alleged mastermind, in Friday's Islamabad bombing that killed 31 and injured 169.

France dominated the second half of the mixed relay biathlon race at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Sunday with fast skiing and strong shooting to take gold ahead of Italy and Germany.

North Korean state media says the country's leadership will convene a major political conference later this month

At least three people have been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Tripoli, northern Lebanon.

It is pre-dawn in the historic Podil district of the Ukraine capital, Kyiv, and warm light from the Spelta bakery-bistro’s window pierces the darkness outside. On a wooden surface dusted with flour, the baker Oleksandr Kutsenko skilfully divides and shapes soft,

Center-left Socialist candidate António José Seguro is heavily favored to defeat hard-right populist André Ventura in Portugal’s runoff presidential election Sunday in a vote that will test the depth of support for Ventura's brash style of politics.