A video has emerged purporting to show Russian mercenaries torturing and beheading a Syrian army deserter, in what is thought to be rare footage of Moscow's shadowy paramilitary outfit operating in Syria.
Donald Trump has unexpectedly spent more than two hours in hospital for what the White House said were tests that form part of his annual physical check-up.
The only thing of which we can be fairly certain about President Donald Trump's mysterious Saturday-afternoon trip to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre is this: the White House is not telling the truth when it claims the president was there "to begin portions of his routine annual physical exam".
Protesters in Hong Kong staged a daring breakout from a university besieged by police last night as parents pleaded with authorities to spare the young activists, some of them high-school students, who remained inside.
Pernod Ricard, the French drinks company, is facing court action accused of piling "constant pressure" on staff to consume alcohol on the job.
Businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri, whose links to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson have come under scrutiny, has called for him to personally apologise to her.
Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson is blaming her ex-husband's private secretary for "pushing" him into the BBC interview, which even she believes was a "car crash".
