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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic, will go on trial on Saturday accused of child sex offences in a case seen as a test of Pope Francis's drive to clean up the church.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers criticized the State Department for construction delays and cost overruns at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan on Thursday, saying they waste taxpayer dollars and put employees' lives at unnecessary risk.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China Mobile, the country's largest wireless carrier, is asking top executives and their families to sign letters promising to help in the fight against corruption, the company said on Wednesday, as part of the government's battle against deep-rooted graft.<br...

OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian court sentenced four former top executives at Yara, the world's biggest nitrate fertilizer maker, to prison on Tuesday for paying bribes in Libya and India, in one of Norway's biggest corruption scandals.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A cholera outbreak in war-torn South Sudan has killed at least 32 people, a fifth of them children under five, and schools have a major role to play in stemming the spread of the disease, the United Nations said on Tuesday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

SANAA (Reuters) - Saudi-led coalition air strikes and clashes killed at least 176 fighters and civilians in Yemen on Monday, residents and media run by the Houthi movement said, the highest daily toll since the Arab air offensive began more than three months ago.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo prosecutors plan to release former Toyota Motor Corp executive Julie Hamp from custody after she was arrested last month on suspicion of illegally importing the painkiller oxycodone into Japan, Kyodo News reported on Tuesday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday said he was calling in the country's ambassador in neighboring Guyana for consultations amid an escalating row over oil exploration in a disputed offshore territory.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The state of Zimbabwe’s roads is the stuff of legend. From whole trucks submerged in water-filled craters right in the central business district to gruesome road accidents, motorists must navigate hazards like these every day.<br...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - International donors must boost aid to developing nations to ensure that millions of the world's poorest and marginalized children can go to school, a group of Nobel laureates said on Monday, ahead of a global conference on financing for education.<br...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is expected to make changes to his cabinet on Monday, a government source said, the second reshuffle since December when he fired his deputy of ten years Joice Mujuru.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces mounted heavy air strikes against rebel positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, the day after a major Islamist-led offensive on areas of the city controlled by President Bashar al-Assad.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff will meet the U.S. ambassador on Thursday to discuss allegations that U.S. spies bugged senior government ministers, a German government source said.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's navy held its first drill simulating the resupply of missiles in a combat environment in the Yellow Sea, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday, the latest sign of the country's growing military prowess.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday that Julie Hamp, its first female managing officer, had resigned following her arrest last month on suspicion of illegally importing the painkiller oxycodone into Japan.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

PARIS (Reuters) - French police have brought in two executives from U.S. technology company Uber for questioning as the government clamp down on the taxi and ride-sharing service intensifies, said a person from the prosecutor's office.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

MADRID (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy named a new education minister to replace the unpopular incumbent on Thursday after the ruling party suffered heavy losses in regional and local elections one month ago.<img width='1' height='1'...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The former deputy general manager of state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) is under criminal investigation for "accepting bribes", judicial authorities in China said on Thursday.<img width='1' height='1'...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria summoned Hungary's ambassador on Wednesday after Budapest stopped accepting asylum seekers from other EU states, defying European authorities and potentially swelling the influx of migrants that Vienna must process.<img width='1' height='1'...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A businessman who is on China's 100 most wanted list of people accused of corruption argued in a Canadian court on Tuesday that he deserves refugee protection while he fights Beijing's efforts to find expatriates it accuses of graft.<img width='1' height='1'...