An outspoken Australian parliamentarian says he and a colleague have been barred entry to China for a study trip, a development he said was concerning.

Chicago teachers on Friday approved the contract deal that ended an 11-day strike and includes pay raises, $35 million to enforce limits on class sizes and a pledge to supply each school with a nurse and a social worker.

Dozens of soldiers posted to Mali?s remote northern town of Labezanga served as the last line of defense against extremists roaming the surrounding desert.

Officials in Sudan are saying an attack by Yemeni rebels has killed six members of a Sudanese paramilitary force that?s been fighting in Yemen.

A German woman accused of joining the Islamic State group in Syria and marrying an IS fighter has been arrested on arrival in Germany.

Police are deployed around key sites in Paris as France?s yellow vest protesters prepare to mark the first anniversary of their sometimes-violent movement for economic justice.

In the sunshine outside a large convention center in the southern Spanish city of Estepona, some very fit-looking people in scanty clothing applied fake tans and rehearsed statuesque poses.

Iraqi security and medical officials say protesters have pushed closer to the Green Zone, Baghdad?s fortified seat of government, after security forces pulled back following a night of violent altercations.

The Iron Curtain was more than just a figure of speech: Communist regimes set up thousands of miles of heavily-guarded, electrified barbed wire fencing to completely isolate Eastern Europe from the West.

Former Washington Wizards guard Glen Rice Jr. has been arrested in Auckland after an altercation in a bar, 10 days after joining the New Zealand Breakers in Australia’s National Basketball League.