A series of high-profile Twitter accounts were hijacked on Wednesday, with some of the platform's top voices - including US presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality television show star Kim Kardashian, former US President Barack Obama, billionaire Elon Musk, and rapper Kanye West, among many others - used to solicit digital currency.
Members of Poland's LGBT community say they are angry and afraid after President Andrzej Duda won re-election in a divisive campaign that cast their movement for equal rights as a dangerous "ideology" that threatens families in the deeply Catholic country.
A French university has created the country's first chair in "intelligence" and a master's degree in espionage.
An artist has erected a statue of a Black Lives Matter protester atop the plinth in Bristol that was formerly occupied by a statue of slave trader Edward Colston.
A nuclear-powered submarine and a ferry were at "serious risk of collision" after safety decisions taken on the Royal Navy vessel were based on inaccurate information, an investigation has found.
China accused Britain of working with the US to "discriminate, oppress and exclude" Chinese firms and warned of jeopardised relations after Huawei was banned from the UK's 5G network.
Donald Trump is ready to roll back a key Nixon-era environmental law that he says stifles major infrastructure projects, but that environmentalists say has served for decades as a safeguard for low-income and minority communities.
