Hong Kong police have ended their blockade of a university campus after surrounding it for 12 days to try to arrest anti-government protesters holed up inside.
Afghanistan's leading presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, has organized protests over a recount in elections that have been mired in accusations of fraud. Thousands of Abdullah's supporters rallied on Friday in Kabul against “the presence of faked ballots” amid a controversial recount that seems set to favor the incumbent, President Ashraf Ghani, AP reported. Results for...
BORIS Johnson has been accused of "trying to restrict the free press" by threatening Channel 4 and of "running scared" of scrutiny by not committing to a BBC interview with Andrew Neil.
New authorities in Sudan have ordered that the party of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir be dissolved and his regime “dismantled,” heeding the call of protesters, AFP reports. Bashir and his Islamist National Congress Party (NCP) had ruled the northeast African country since 1989 before a nationwide protest movement resulted in him being deposed earlier this...
The holiday season has officially begun, and Americans are gearing up for a massive shopping spree that is going to require an enormous amount of energy. Deloitte has predicted that holiday sales this year could climb 5 percent and exceed $1.1 trillion. The e-commerce sector is expected to enjoy another bumper year, with digital sales...
Two K-pop stars have been jailed by a court in South Korea after being found guilty of a sexual attack on a woman who was unable to resist.
Customers at HSBC and Santander are to share a multimillion-pound windfall after the two banks were forced to pay back overdraft fees.
