Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has condemned Russian efforts to interfere in the 2020 election.
February 21, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has said he is willing to release at least three women from non-disclosure agreements that prevented them from speaking publicly about sexual harassment or discrimination...
February 21, 2020
Musician Grimes has announced on Twitter that she will allow her child to decide their own gender.
February 21, 2020
Jurors deliberating in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial have indicated they are deadlocked on the most serious charges but the judge has told them to keep trying.
February 21, 2020
Britain's Duke and Duchess of Sussex will no longer use the word royal, as in their "Sussex Royal" branding, a spokeswoman for the couple has said.
February 21, 2020
A temporary truce between the United States and the Taliban has taken effect, setting the stage for the two sides to sign a peace deal next week aimed at ending...
February 21, 2020
European Union nations have ended a marathon summit without a budget deal and will have to reconvene for another meeting in the coming weeks.
February 21, 2020
A bear has drawn curious onlookers as it wandered in a Los Angeles foothill suburb in California.
February 21, 2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Friday with the new ruler of Oman. The Gulf Arab country has close ties with both Washington and Tehran and that has previously...
February 21, 2020
The shock US court ruling granting a retrial for the killers of Irishman Jason Corbett is to be challenged by North Carolina's attorney general.
February 21, 2020
The London markets finished the week on the back foot as the FTSE 100 was hit by a downturn at Pearson and concerns about the spread of coronavirus.
February 21, 2020
Italian archaeologists have unveiled an exciting new find from the Roman Forum which they say could be the lost shrine dedicated 2,600 years ago to Romulus, Rome's legendary founder and...
February 21, 2020
Police in Vietnam have charged seven people in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found in a refrigerated trailer in the UK last October, state...
February 21, 2020
A Russian woman has been arrested in Spain, possibly following a request by the US, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. It added that the embassy in Spain will...
February 21, 2020
Pakistan won an extra four months to meet international anti-terrorism financing norms on Friday after a global dirt money watchdog decided to keep the country off its blacklist for now....
February 21, 2020
A salvage firm that has retrieved artefacts from the Titanic wants to recover from its wreckage the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Machine that transmitted the doomed ship's distress calls.
February 21, 2020
Social media users and celebrities around the world have rallied in support of a nine-year-old boy who was bullied over his dwarfism.
February 21, 2020
German authorities will step up the police presence throughout the country and keep a closer watch on mosques and other sites after racially motivated shootings that killed nine people, Germany's...
February 21, 2020
Experts have bet on Flutter Entertainment to show a much bigger rise in sales as it squares off with rival William Hill next week in the battle of the gambling...
February 21, 2020
Thailand's Constitutional Court on Friday dissolved an upstart opposition political party that has challenged the military establishment, finding it guilty of taking an illegal loan from its billionaire founder. The...
February 21, 2020
A German court has ruled that the clearing of trees from the site of Tesla's first electric car factory in Europe can go ahead, days after it issued an injunction...
February 21, 2020
People around the world including actor Hugh Jackman have expressed their support for a bullied Australian boy after a video of the nine-year-old went viral.
February 21, 2020
A seven-day “reduction of violence” deal promised by the Taliban will begin on Friday night, a senior US State Department official said.
February 21, 2020
The UN said on Friday ceasefire talks were back on track between the forces fighting over Libya's capital. The statement comes days after the internationally recognized government pulled out of...
February 21, 2020
A seal that managed to navigate its way up through a harbour and into a car park has been released back into the wild.
February 21, 2020
Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers have donated £3,000 to a local flood-relief fund after parts of the country were hit by flooding.
February 21, 2020
Greta Thunberg is using her prize money from an award often described as an alternative Nobel Prize to establish a sustainability foundation, according to the Swedish organisation behind the prize.
February 21, 2020
Portugal's parliament has voted in favour of allowing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill people.
February 21, 2020
The owner of Birmingham's Bullring shopping centre has sold the last of its retail parks for £455 million, its largest disposal in the last decade.
February 21, 2020
The killer of British backpacker Grace Millane has been handed a life sentence at Auckland High Court.
February 21, 2020
Thousands have gathered in cities across Germany to hold vigils for the victims of a racially motivated shooting, amid growing calls for authorities to crack down on far-right extremism.
February 21, 2020
A week-long “reduction in violence” between the Taliban, the US, and Afghan security forces will commence at midnight (1930 GMT), officials said on Friday, ahead of the signing of a...
February 21, 2020
Printed university course books continue to weigh on publisher Pearson as students are turning ever more to digital alternatives.
February 21, 2020
The sun rose over European Union headquarters after a night of negotiations, but little light was shed on how much closer the bloc's 27 leaders might have moved toward resolving...
February 21, 2020
Major contributors to the European Union's budget have blocked progress at an emergency summit, insisting they would not stump up more funds for the bloc's next long-term spending package.
February 21, 2020
Iranians were voting for a new parliament, with turnout seen as a key measure of support for Iran's leadership as sanctions weigh on the economy and isolate the country diplomatically.
February 21, 2020
Tunisia is set to hold a confidence vote on a new government on February 26, after more than four months of political wrangling since elections, according to a parliament statement....
February 21, 2020
A federal appeals court in New York has upheld a $6.7 million (£5.2 million) award for nearly two dozen graffiti artists whose spray paintings at a once-famous site were destroyed...
February 21, 2020
A federal judge yesterday sentenced President Donald Trump's long-time adviser Roger Stone to three years and four months in prison and said his lies to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in...
February 21, 2020
Betting odds indicate a 25pc implied probability of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's senior adviser Dominic Cummings leaving Downing Street by the end of March.
