A bird has been held in a jail cell in the Netherlands after its owner was arrested for shoplifting.
Chinese Communist Party leader and President Xi Jinping has renewed his government's commitment to allowing Hong Kong to manage its own affairs amid continuing anti-government protests in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Officers investigating a robbery have written a message on a car windscreen asking the culprits to contact police about the "stolen car and cannabis left behind".
Britain's accounting watchdog has announced plans to tighten industry standards following a spate of corporate failures and auditing errors.
Iraq and Syria have opened a key border crossing between the two neighbouring countries, seven years after it was closed during Syria's civil war and the battle against the so-called Islamic State group.
The New York-based rating agency S&P Global has affirmed the ‘A+/A-1' credit rating on China, predicting that the country will maintain above-average gross domestic product (GDP) growth and improved fiscal performance. “On September 30, 2019, S&P Global Ratings affirmed its unsolicited ‘A+' long-term and ‘A-1' short-term sovereign credit ratings on China. The outlook on the...
Iran said the missile-and-drone attack on major Saudi oil sites earlier this month was an act of “legitimate defence” by Yemen's Iran-allied Houthi rebels.
