China has told the US to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu in the latest development in an increasingly tense diplomatic conflict.
July 24, 2020
US president Donald Trump has scrapped plans for a four-night Republican National Convention celebration in Florida that had been set to draw more than 10,000 people to a pandemic hot...
July 24, 2020
Israeli police have used water cannons to disperse protesters in central Jerusalem as clashes broke out overnight after thousands staged a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
July 24, 2020
Britain's Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, filed a lawsuit in California on Thursday against unnamed paparazzi photographers for allegedly taking "illegal" photographs of their son, Archie.
July 24, 2020
China has told the US to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu in the latest development in an increasingly tense diplomatic conflict.
July 24, 2020
The tense standoff between demonstrators and federal police in Portland, Oregon, dragged on Thursday after the city's mayor was tear-gassed as he made an appearance outside a federal courthouse during...
July 24, 2020
Schools are "absolutely on track" to resume in five weeks but the reopening of remaining pubs is still uncertain, despite an improvement in the control of Covid-19, it emerged yesterday.
July 24, 2020
Mayor Ted Wheeler choked on tear gas as he stood outside the federal courthouse in downtown Portland, where federal agents set off explosives and fired chemicals into a crowd of...
July 24, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged that he would not let the coronavirus crisis "hold this country back" as he marked a year in Number 10.
July 24, 2020
In Germany, the shape of chocolate matters. A 10-year legal battle over the right to sell square chocolate bars was finally resolved yesterday by the country's highest court.
July 24, 2020
China has launched its first mission to attempt to land on Mars, as space exploration becomes a growing battleground in the US-China rivalry.
July 24, 2020
China will be forced to respond to the US closing its Houston consulate, it said yesterday, a move the country's Foreign Ministry said "severely harmed" relations.
July 24, 2020
Coronavirus cases in the US hit four million yesterday, with 2,600 new cases every hour on average, the highest rate in the world.
July 24, 2020
Democrats are mounting their most extensive voter protection effort ever to gird for what Joe Biden called his biggest fear: the prospect that US President Donald Trump will try to...
July 24, 2020
Johnny Depp was on a 24-hour cocaine and whiskey "bender" before going to the set of a Keith Richards documentary, Amber Heard told the High Court in London, as she...
July 24, 2020
A federal judge has suggested during a court hearing that prosecutors sent Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen back to prison as retaliation for planning to publish a book about...
July 24, 2020
The judge presiding over the criminal sex abuse case against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has declined a request by her lawyer to ban public comments by the US government or...
July 24, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and former US president Barack Obama stepped up their attacks on Donald Trump and defended their time in the White House.
July 24, 2020
The US joined Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia yesterday in opposing any Russian attempts to rewrite history, after President Vladimir Putin said the Baltic states had consented to their 1940 annexation...
July 23, 2020
US president Donald Trump's hopes to salvage a four-night celebration for his reelection campaign have been thwarted by spiking coronavirus cases, with the president announcing that he was calling off...
July 23, 2020
A drop in high winds late on Thursday helped firefighters gain ground on a large wildfire in southern Greece that raged for more than a day, forcing the evacuations of...
July 23, 2020
Allegations that US president Donald Trump's envoy to Britain made inappropriate remarks about women and minorities and may have violated federal ethics rules have unsettled the US Embassy in London.
July 23, 2020
Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi and first team players from Tottenham Hotspur are helping a London children's hospice hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic to launch a campaign to raise...
July 23, 2020
The World Health Organization's Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday that statement questioning his independence would not distract the WHO from its work in fighting the coronavirus outbreak....
July 23, 2020
THE rate of the spread of coronavirus in Ireland has fallen in recent days, the Dáil has been told.
July 23, 2020
Seoul should postpone military exercises with the US in the hope of drawing North Korea back into talks, the South Korean politician set to take over responsibility for relations with...
July 23, 2020
The FTSE 100 nudged marginally higher on a quiet trading day as concerns over US-China tensions pressed down on global markets.
July 23, 2020
The chief of the World Health Organisation has condemned US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for “untrue and unacceptable” comments, responding to reported allegations that included the health agency chief...
July 23, 2020
A judge has ordered the release from prison of Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, saying he believes the government retaliated against him for writing a book about the president.
July 23, 2020
Moscow has never interfered with the US elections, the speaker of the Russian parliament's upper house, Valentina Matvienko, said on Thursday. “Who will be elected president – this is the...
July 23, 2020
A young cat that went missing for two months has finally been reunited with his owners.
July 23, 2020
RESEARCHERS have raised concerns that data concerning Android users who have downloaded Covid-19 tracing apps is not being adequately protected.
July 23, 2020
Belgium will tighten coronavirus containment measures on July 25 after a rise in infections, Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes said, requiring the use of face masks in crowded outdoor public spaces....
July 23, 2020
The FBI believes the Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harbouring a Chinese researcher who is charged in federal court in California with lying about her military background.
July 23, 2020
The Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harbouring a Chinese researcher who lied about her military background, the US Justice Department said as it announced charges against that scientist and...
July 23, 2020
Johnny Depp is a “remarkable man” when he is “clean and sober” but the “other side of him was a monster”, Amber Heard has told the High Court.
July 23, 2020
Households' determination to save money during the coronavirus lockdown may have helped to bolster their confidence in their own future personal finances, an index suggests.
July 23, 2020
The Russian and French foreign and defense ministers will hold a 2+2 meeting in Paris, a senior diplomatic source in the French capital has told TASS. The date of the...
July 23, 2020
People who receive tax credits have just one week left to tell HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) about changes to their circumstances or income.
July 23, 2020
“Help us to help you is the message of my visit,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said after meeting Lebanese leaders in Beirut on Thursday. He added that Paris...
