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The Scottish government announced on Monday that it granted consent to a floating offshore wind farm project, which would be the largest of its kind in the world when completed.

Sumatran rhino arrives home on mating mission

A US-born Sumatran rhino arrived in his ancestral home of Indonesia on Sunday, making the long journey from Cincinnati, Ohio, on a mission to mate to help save his critically endangered species from extinction.

Study says robots help elderly remain healthy, independent

Robots specializing in home healthcare can provide companionship and help lessen the isolation of elderly people in remote areas, according to a pioneering New Zealand study released on Monday.

Ex-GDR official whose blunder brought down Berlin Wall dies

Former German Democratic Republic official Guenter Schabowski, who died on Sunday at age 86, went down in history for a slip of the tongue in 1989 that inadvertently brought down the Berlin Wall.

AKP sweeps back to majority

Turkey's ruling party secured a stunning victory in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, sweeping back into single-party rule only five months after losing it.

President: 'Let's be as one ... all be Turkey together'

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday the nation had voted for stability in a legislative election that saw the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, win almost 50 percent of the vote, and said the world should respect the result.

Governor takes relocation dispute closer to High Court

Okinawan Governor Takeshi Onaga was scheduled to appeal to a third-party panel on Monday to mediate with the central government of Japan in an ongoing dispute regarding the relocation of a controversial US air base within the nation's southernmost prefecture.

Russian airplane 'broke up in the air'

A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt broke up in the air, an investigator said on Sunday, as the bodies of many of the 224 people killed on board were flown home.

UN says a record of 218,000 crossed Mediterranean in Oct

More than 218,000 migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean to Europe in October - a monthly record and nearly the same number as in the whole of 2014, the United Nations said on Monday.

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20 years after Rabin's assassination, Israelis worry about bleak future

"Twenty years have passed since (former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak) Rabin was killed, and things seem to be bleaker than ever," Yaron Yovel said on Saturday night at a rally in a Tel Aviv square remembering Rabin's assassination.

Palestinians clash with soldiers at funerals

Violence broke out on Saturday in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron as Palestinians buried five teenagers killed in a wave of attacks and clashes with Israeli forces.