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Thousands of union activists have marched through French cities as airport employees, teachers and other workers joined nationwide strikes, cranking up pressure on the government to scrap changes to the...

French airport employees, teachers and other workers have joined nationwide strikes as unions crank up pressure on the government to scrap changes to the national retirement system.

Russia's Second Western District Military Court on Tuesday found Abror Azimov guilty of bankrolling a terror attack in St. Petersburg in April 2017 and sentenced him to life in jail,...

The proportion of low-deposit mortgages being handed out is at its highest since 2008, Bank of England figures show.

Wildfires have engulfed the Australian city of Sydney in haze so thick in some places it was 11 times worse than the level considered hazardous and was heavy enough to...

The biggest shareholder in engineering group Rolls-Royce has pulled its representative from the board, months after selling down part of its stake in the troubled company.

Convenience store business McColl's has warned profits for the year are set to miss forecasts on the back of poor weather and declining consumer confidence.

Hugh Grant has given a withering response to the Love Actually spoof campaign video by the Conservatives.

BuzzFeed UK has been told it will be dissolved in two months if it fails to file its accounts with Companies House.

BuzzFeed UK has said it will file its accounts, which are more than two months overdue, by the end of the year.

Black Friday gave supermarkets only a limited boost as shoppers delayed their Christmas preparations amid the uncertainty of the General Election, till figures show.

Just Eat has rebuffed the latest attempt by South Africa's Naspers to derail its planned deal with rival Takeaway.com, saying the £5.1 billion sweetened bid undervalues the group.

South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday that Pyongyang's recent unspecified test at a rocket liftoff site was of a rocket engine, amid speculation the North was making preliminary steps...

The UN's highest court is beginning a hearing into allegations of genocide in Burma over the military campaign against the Rohingya minority.

Japanese securities regulators have recommended that carmaker Nissan be fined 2.4 billion yen (£16.8 million) for the under-reporting of compensation of its former chairman Carlos Ghosn.

Qatar is sending its prime minister to a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, its highest level of representation at the annual meeting in two years,...

Baby clothes specialist Mothercare was struggling to fight a perception that it had gone bust even a year before the company entered administration, its chief executive has said.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn have launched pop culture-inspired campaign videos in the final days of the UK General Election campaign.

Six people have been killed in a shooting in a hospital in the eastern Czech Republic, police and officials said.

An attacker shot dead four people and seriously injured two at a hospital in the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava, police have said.

An attacker shot dead six people and seriously injured two at a hospital in the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava, police have said.

An attacker shot dead six people sitting in a waiting room at a hospital in the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava on Tuesday, the government said.

President Rodrigo Duterte will lift martial law in the southern Philippines by year's end, his spokesman said on Tuesday. Duterte put the Mindanao region under military rule in May 2017,...

NEW Zealand police have said they are launching a criminal investigation after a volcanic island erupted with ash and steam on Monday, killing five people, injuring more than 30 and...

New Zealand police have launched an investigation after a volcanic eruption on an island popular with tourists killed five people, injured more than 30 and left eight people missing, who...

North Korea insulted US President Donald Trump again yesterday, calling him a "heedless and erratic old man" after he tweeted that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wouldn't want to abandon...

Sitting on a park bench on the village green, the two ladies are genuinely "perplexed".

Sitting on a park bench on the village green, the two ladies are genuinely "perplexed".

Senior American officials routinely misled the public about US success in Afghanistan, fiddling statistics and metrics to spin a conflict that they knew was going badly, according to a trove...

A leading UK Rohingya activist fears he and his family could be attacked by ardent supporters of the Mayanmar (Burma) government as the genocide trial against the regime begins in...

Russia has been banned from the world's top sporting events for four years - including the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 World Cup - for tampering with...

A Saudi trainee military pilot launched a terror attack at a US Navy base after an instructor called him "porn stash", suggesting his moustache resembled that of a pornographic film...

Teenage girls are still being forced to sleep outside during their periods in parts of Nepal, despite a string of deaths and a law banning the ancient custom.

The FBI was justified in investigating ties between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia before the 2016 election, a US watchdog has found, undermining the US president's claim that it was...

"Classic psychopath" Joseph McCann has been handed 33 life sentences and a minimum term of 30 years for a string of horrific sex attacks on 11 women and children.

Finland's new prime minister - about to become the world's youngest serving premier - will have a finance minister two years her junior in a new women-led coalition cabinet, party...

Families of tourists visiting New Zealand were last night searching for information about their loved ones feared to have been caught up in a volcanic eruption which is understood to...

A long-awaited summit in Paris is aiming to find a way to end the war in Ukraine, after five years and 14,000 lives lost in a conflict that has emboldened...

As we prepare to wave goodbye to the year and enter a new decade, most of us will be happy to see the back of 2019. But it's not unfair...

A strong 5.3 magnitude quake shook New Zealand's North Island, just hours after a lethal volcanic eruption killed five and left eight others missing. No damage or casualties have been...