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Asian shares have surged on reports that Donald Trump wants to reach an agreement with Chinese president Xi Jinping about the trade dispute that has dogged markets for months. The US president spoke to Xi on...

The Vatican Museums are considering putting a cap on visitor numbers amid fears among tour guides that overcrowding could provoke a stampede unless security policy is changed. The museums, a sprawling structure of 54 galleries containing a vast...

Donald Trump has stepped up his rhetorical attack over immigration ahead of next week’s midterm elections, using a White House address on Thursday to float what is possibly an unconstitutional clampdown on asylum-seekers – and hinted that...

The Romanian government faces strong opposition after a local environmental protection agency issued a permit allowing one of the country’s biggest, oldest and most polluting coal-based power-plants to function indefinitely. Greenpeace Romania and the ClientEarth environmental...

Activists staged a protest in Belgrade over the conviction of eight Youth Initiative for Human Rights members who disrupted a speech by convicted Serbian war criminal Veselin Sljivancanin in 2017. The Youth Initiative for Human Rights,...

There are about 40,000 ethnic Albanians in Serbia who are eligible to vote in the elections on Sunday for seats on the Albanian National Council, ANC, but observers and potential voters agree that there is little...

A last gasp goal from captain Marco Reus saved Dortmund from penalties against lower league opponents for the second time this season. Elsewhere, Leipzig knocked out their future boss and Leverkusen turned on the style. In...

Snake eyes, fluorescent colors, or jet-black pupils — for Halloween, wannabe witches and make-believe monsters turn to contact lenses to complete their costume. Some can damage your eyes. Help, eye’m suffocating! With many fun lenses, the...

Donald Trump has said children born on American soil should not automatically get citizenship, claiming that the US is “the only country in world” to do this. DW shows where else “jus soli” is enshrined in...

After days of searching, divers have recovered a flight recorder from a Lion Air jet that crashed in Indonesia this week. Investigators hope the device will reveal why the Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane plunged into...