India's supreme court has rejected the final appeal of one of four men sentenced to death over the 2012 fatal gang rape of a woman on a bus in New Delhi.
When Italian cartoonist Mario Improta backed down over a controversial Nazi death camp-themed Brexit joke, he mistakenly compared his capitulation to the fate that befell French satirical mag Charlie Hebdo. When Improta posted on social media an illustration of re-elected British PM Boris Johnson dressed as a prisoner fleeing a EU concentration camp, it was...
A European spacecraft has been launched from South America on a three-year mission to study planets in other solar systems.
A European spacecraft has been launched from South America on a three-year mission to study planets in other solar systems.
Though they wear high-vis, French protesters have been all but invisible in the so-called mainstream media, also provoking deafening silence from the labor and trade union movement, and even the so-called ‘left' within it. While a broken head or even a broken window in Hong Kong or Venezuela can and often does lead the news,...
South Korea and the United States failed on Wednesday to reach an agreement over Seoul's contribution towards hosting some 28,500 US troops. The two countries ended two days of talks that were the last before their existing deal expires on December 31. South Korean lawmakers have said Washington is seeking up to $5 billion a...
Education group Pearson unveiled a £530 million deal to sell its remaining stake in book publisher Penguin Random House as it announced the retirement of chief executive John Fallon next year.
