IOC pushing social media platform for fan interaction for first time at London Games.

Clement Gaultier-Falguiere, 21, was underwhelmed at the prospect of placing his first vote in a French presidential election yesterday.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators march through Prague to voice their anger over spending cuts, tax rises and corruption

The Border Security Force soldiers are unfailingly polite and hospitable, but conspicuously armed and resolute. We go no further.

China's corruption scandal took a dramatic twist yesterday when the wife of the former high-flying Chinese politician Bo Xilai was accused of poisoning the British businessman Neil Heywood for threatening to expose her plan to move money abroad.

Latin American leaders, weary of the drug war, are calling for an important discussion on drug legalization. The U.S. should not turn away.

Government, under pressure to come up with a comprehensive climate policy, admits it has not done enough to mitigate growing problems

Doubts are growing about the planned ceasefire in Syria after the government made new demands and the rebels said they believed the plan would fail

German writer and Nobel laureate Günter Grass has effectively been banned from Israel after a poem he published accused the country of endangering world peace sparked a global firestorm of criticism and counter-criticism.

Syrian troops pounded opposition areas, activists said, killing 74 civilians in an offensive that has sent thousands of refugees surging into Turkey before next week's U.N.-backed ceasefire aimed at staunching a year of bloodshed.