Britons who have endured more than three years of wrangling over their country's messy divorce from the European Union cast ballots yesterday in an election billed as a way out of the Brexit stalemate in a deeply divided nation.
A cheer went up from the back of Kensington Town Hall as the returning officer was addressing his staff ahead of the count.
Thousands of Hong Kong protesters gathered yesterday to mark six months since their first major clash with police, when they blocked legislators from advancing an extradition bill which has since been scrapped.
Russia has expelled two German diplomats in what it called a standard diplomatic response to a similar move by Germany last week.
A Russian television channel has abruptly stopped airing the sitcom that launched the political career of Ukraine's president, after viewers noticed it had edited out an obscene joke about Vladimir Putin from the first episode.
A dangerous mission to recover the bodies from New Zealand's White Island began last night with rescuers landing on the island amid warnings that the chances of a new eruption remain perilously high.
Donald Trump's team have edited his face on to the body of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg after she was named 'Time' Person of the Year.
