A confederacy of dunces stumbled onto the Senate floor this week to launch its bewildering defence of President Donald Trump. This misfit band of lawyers brought with it arguments so stunningly stupefying, logic so fatally flawed and a cynicism so brazenly transparent that one suspects Baghdad Bob was viewing the entire spectacle with grudging respect.
Eussia and China are waging a "digital war" with fake news and disinformation to undermine democracy in Europe, an EU has official said.
Republican hopes have risen of having the votes to block new witnesses and acquit Donald Trump in his impeachment trial today as a string of wavering senators called for proceedings to wrap up.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - founded by Manhattan Project scientists who invented the nuclear bomb, with 13 Nobel laureates on its executive board - has just moved its Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds before midnight. This marks the most severe security threat in its history.
Spanish police have broken up a gang that made millions of euro selling a performance-enhancing drug to athletes competing at national and international levels across Europe.
Prince Harry's claim that a Sunday newspaper wrote an inaccurate article about wildlife pictures posted on his Instagram account has been dismissed by a newspaper industry regulator.
Swathes of south-east Australia were bracing yesterday for a days-long heatwave that threatens to stoke bushfires that have been burning for months.
