Captain Craig Ervine top scored with 75 as Zimbabwe made 243 in their first innings on day two of the second and final Test against Afghanistan in Bulawayo on Friday.

The Czech Republic, whose embassy has represented the United States in Syria since 2012, has reopened its mission after closing it last month following the rebellion that toppled Bashar al-Assad.

Iran's foreign ministry on Friday summoned the Italian ambassador to Tehran, protesting as an "illegal act" the arrest of an Iranian national by Italy, a day after a similar summoning in Rome.

Google said Friday it had paid Can$100 million to Canadian news outlets to use their content on its platform, as part of a deal with the government to offset loss of advertising revenues.

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has cancelled her travel plans until mid-January because of a "severe" case of pneumonia, her office said Friday.

At least five people were killed in a series of Russian and Ukrainian strikes on Friday, officials said, the latest casualties of the nearly three-year war.

UN humanitarians said on Friday that Israelis have ordered more relocating in besieged North Gaza because of impending attacks in retaliation for rocket fire into Israel.

The UN on Friday decried that infants and others were freezing to death in Gaza, where it said an estimated 945,000 people still need help to shelter from winter conditions.

The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria ordered rolling blackouts on Friday, as a halt in Russian gas supplies earlier this week plunged the self-proclaimed state into crisis.

More than 27 million inbound and outbound passenger trips were recorded through the Zhuhai port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau ...

A prison inmate surrendered Friday afternoon after taking five staff hostage in the southern French city of Arles for several hours, authorities said.

US President Joe Biden will travel to New Orleans next week to meet the families of victims of a deadly truck-ramming attack that killed 14 people, the White House announced Friday.