Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, has gone on trial on charge of negligence over a €400m payment made to a French tycoon while she was the country’s finance minister.
The US President-elect Donald Trump made a major fashion faux pas when he, or an assistant, apparently Scotch-taped the back of his favourite red power tie.
The pilot of the plane that crashed in Colombia had radioed he was running out of fuel and in an emergency, according to a recording of his final communications.
The state-run British Broadcasting Channel (BBC) says Iraq has turned to the backyard of Iranians, and the annual Arba’een pilgrimage showed that Iranian popular forces, rather than Americans, will stay in the Arab country.
While Iran and Russia are known as strategic allies, the next US president is going to enhance his country’s ties with Russia and at the same time put Iran under pressure. Is it possible?