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President Donald Trump has said that his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus.

The McCallister family house from Home Alone has been recreated in gingerbread to celebrate the film's 30th anniversary.

Japanese space officials said they were excited about the return of a capsule that landed safely in the Australian outback on Sunday carrying soil samples from a distant asteroid, and...

Top health officials in the US have warned Americans that with a Covid-19 vaccine perhaps just days away, and with most of California heading into another lockdown because of a...

Coronavirus vaccines have been hailed as the “beginning of the end” for the pandemic, but the Government has warned it is not the end of the virus.

SpaceX launched a newer, bigger version of its Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, marking the first time the company has had two capsules in...

A FURTHER 301 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported to the Department of Health.

Uruguay's first socialist president, Tabare Vazquez, a popular figure who was returned to office for a second term has died of cancer.

Indonesia's anti-corruption commission has formally detained the country's social affairs minister after he surrendered to authorities on Sunday to face charges of taking bribes related to the government's Covid-19 aid...

A “miracle” kitten feared dead after falling down a six-foot pipe has been rescued and is now on the road to recovery.

Several communities in the Austrian Alps have put mass coronavirus testing on hold and others were urged to do the same after a storm dumped huge amounts of snow, sending...

Kuwaitis have elected a new parliament in an election which saw two-thirds of politicians and the country's only woman legislator lose their seats, election results released on Sunday showed.

US President Donald Trump is pressing his grievances over losing the presidential election, using a weekend rally to spread baseless allegations of misconduct in last month's voting in Georgia and...

US President Donald Trump is pressing his grievances over losing the presidential election, using a weekend rally to spread baseless allegations of misconduct in last month's voting in Georgia and...

US President Donald Trump is pressing his grievances over losing the presidential election, using a weekend rally to spread baseless allegations of misconduct in last month's voting in Georgia and...

US President Donald Trump is pressing his grievances over losing the presidential election, using a weekend rally to spread baseless allegations of misconduct in last month's voting in Georgia and...

Public health guidance to avoid big parties in the age of the coronavirus is about to collide with what is typically one of America's biggest celebrations of all – the...

A Japanese capsule carrying the world's first asteroid subsurface samples has in the remote Australian Outback.

An award-winning photographer is embarking on a “crazy” winter mountain challenge to help give a seriously ill baby an extra chance of life through the “most expensive drug in the...

Dionne Warwick has asked a key question of Chance The Rapper – since he obviously raps, why does he need to include that fact in his stage name?

Perhaps the most haunting Roman image of this Covid 'annus horribilis' came last March when Pope Francis sat out in an empty St Peter's Square, praying alone on a dark,...

To vote, or not to vote - that is the question for some Republicans in Georgia.

Two groups of historians, an independent archive and a watchdog group are suing Donald Trump and his administration officials to ensure compliance with records laws.

When Juan Guaido raised his right hand and symbolically swore himself in as Venezuela's interim president nearly two years ago, the tens of thousands watching on a main Caracas avenue...

There are people writing tabloid headlines telling us the "magic jab" is coming to save us from Covid-19 and restore normality.

David Dinkins, who has died at the age of 93, was the first and only black mayor of New York, a genteel, dignified figure who aimed to heal his city's...

Paolo Gabriele, who has died aged 54, was the Vatican butler whose theft and leaking of private papers belonging to Pope Benedict XVI touched off what became known as the...

US President Donald Trump pressed his own grievances over losing the presidential election at a rally in Georgia at the expense of the political battle for control of the Senate.

US president Donald Trump has pressed Georgia's governor to call a special legislative session aimed at overturning the presidential election results in that state.

Thousands of people around France have protested against a proposed bill that could make it more difficult for witnesses to film police officers.

Scientists are seeing promising early results from the first studies to examine the effects of gene editing on painful, inherited blood disorders that plague millions worldwide, especially black people.

A capsule released by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has landed in a remote area of southern Australia as planned, officials said, bringing home asteroid samples that could explain the origins of...

Japan's space agency said its helicopter search team has retrieved a capsule which is carrying asteroid samples that could explain the origin of life.

Boris Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen have said they have agreed that a further effort should be undertaken by their negotiating teams to assess whether they...

Another 13 people in Ireland have died with Covid-19, according to figures released this evening.

Tens of thousands of opposition supporters have marched across the Armenian capital to push for the resignation of the ex-Soviet nation's prime minister over his handling of the conflict with...

Hundreds of peace protesters have formed a human chain outside Germany's parliament, calling for disarmament and an end to weapons exports.

Hundreds of peace protesters have formed a human chain outside Germany's parliament, calling for disarmament and an end to weapons exports.

Hundreds of peace protesters have formed a human chain outside Germany's parliament, calling for disarmament and an end to weapons exports.

A historic church in lower Manhattan that houses New York's Liberty Bell and whose congregation dates to the city's earliest days has been gutted by a massive fire.