The towering Christmas tree in Baghdad's Tahrir Square had always been a wondrous sight. The giant baubles, twinkling tinsel and an angelic figure crowning the tip had brightened up the otherwise drab central plaza.
British navy teams have recovered more than £3.3m (€3.84m) of crystal meth from a dhow in the Arabian Sea.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is refusing to scale down the coal industry amid the debate on climate change, saying such a move would be "reckless" and "job destroying".
A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death yesterday for the killing of 'Washington Post' columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, whose grisly slaying in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul drew international condemnation and cast a cloud of suspicion over Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Striking rail workers clashed with riot police in Paris yesterday as they protested against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms.
The mother of a 15-year-old German boy discovered in the flat of a suspected paedophile two years after he went missing has rejected police claims he was there voluntarily.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party lost control of another state yesterday, adding to a string of electoral losses since last December amid protests that mark the biggest challenge to the Hindu-nationalist leader.
