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Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta will call a confidence vote in parliament after a showdown with center-right partners in his fragile coalition scuppered a vital package of budget measures on Friday and took his government to the brink of collapse.
Iran and the UN nuclear agency held "constructive" talks on Friday about Iran's disputed atomic program and said they would meet again on Oct 28.
Top climate scientists blamed mankind more clearly than ever as the main cause of global warming in a report on Friday meant to guide governments in dealing with rising temperatures.
China has become the largest investment destination to Belgium, the booming bilateral trade became the new highlight of the two countries' economic cooperation.
Russia will not join the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) before its defects are removed, a senior diplomat said Thursday at an arms exhibition.
A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday to deliver three new crew members to the International Space Station.
China and Britain will resume high-level visits and dialogue soon, the Chinese ambassador to the UK said.
Beijing Design Week will kick off on Thursday, with Florentijn Hofman's Rubber Duck landing in waters of the Summer Palace from Beijing's Garden Expo Park.
More than 30 thoroughbred horses from Australia, Ireland, and France joined their Chinese counterparts to gallop for the finale of the first China Equestrian Cultural Festival.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is highly likely to form a coalition with her party's biggest center-left rival, analysts said, after Monday's provisional results showed her bloc achieving a stunning victory, just five seats short of an absolute majority in the lower house.
The International Organization for Standardization has elected Zhang Xiaogang, president of the Chinese Anshan Iron and Steel Group Corp., as president at the 36th ISO General Assembly in St Petersburg.
Two police officers were killed when a car bomb exploded near a police station in Russia's southwest Dagestan republic.