The grandson of a former Italian prime minister has returned to Greece an ancient vase presented as a state gift over 70 years ago, the Greek culture ministry said Friday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will not meet his US counterpart Antony Blinken despite both attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York this weekend, Moscow said on Friday.

Italian star Sophia Loren, a cinema icon with two Oscars to her name in Hollywood, celebrates her 90th birthday in Rome Friday, just a few days before French actress Brigitte Bardot.

Wall Street hit the brakes on its post-Fed rally to start a triple-witching Friday session. The Dow was down 46 points, or 0.1%, while the S&P 500 was down 0.2%. The Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.1%.

Enzo Maresca backed Nicolas Jackson as his first choice striker at Chelsea on Friday despite Christopher Nkunku's match-winning impact against Bournemouth last weekend.

A Taiwan court decided on Friday to retain capital punishment, but ruled its application should be "limited to special and exceptional circumstances".

The Korea Open quarter-final between Russian top seed Daria Kasatkina and former US Open champion Emma Raducanu was pushed back a day after all play was washed out by heavy rain on Friday.

Compared by some to Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, the most followed TikToker in the world, Khaby Lame, is preparing to launch a film career in Hollywood following his dizzying global success on ...

A Russian man has been charged in Poland over a hammer attack in neighbouring Lithuania on a top aide of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny earlier this year, prosecutors said on Friday.

Iran summoned the acting head of Afghanistan's embassy Friday after saying a visiting Afghan official disrespected the country's national anthem by not standing, days after a similar incident in ...

Dutch police said on Friday they were investigating a fatal knife attack in the port city of Rotterdam and had not ruled out any motive.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen visited Kyiv on Friday to discuss energy security ahead of a third winter of war with Russia, ...