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The £2.6 billion private equity takeover of UK satellite firm Inmarsat has cleared a major hurdle after a challenge to the sale was dropped.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived by yacht in the port of Lisbon after a three-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from the US.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived by yacht in the port of Lisbon after a three-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from the US.

British companies have been selling their foreign assets at the fastest rate since the start of the century, new officials figures revealed on Tuesday.

British cave explorer Vernon Unsworth is suing Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk for defamation over three tweets on July 15, 2018, including one in which Musk allegedly branded him a...

Nasa said it has found debris from India's Moon lander, which crashed on the lunar surface in September.

One of the UK's only female private jet sales agents is planning to take Italy's largest aviation manufacturer, Piaggio Aerospace, to court for the second time in four years over...

France has threatened a “strong European riposte” if the Trump administration follows through on a proposal to hit French cheese, Champagne, handbags and other products with tariffs of up to...

Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson is proud the club will once again open a lounge at Selhurst Park for rough sleepers this winter.

Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe left 10 million US dollars (£7.7 million) and several houses when he died in September, according to the first official list of assets to be...

The 2010s are set to be the hottest decade in history, the United Nations said Tuesday in an annual assessment of climate change. The World Meteorological Organization said global temperatures...

Plumbing giant Ferguson has said the demerger of its UK arm Wolseley is firmly on track as the company posted higher profits in the first quarter.

Yumi Ishikawa's feet bled after a day in the high heels required by her job, a memory that led her and other Japanese activists to demand on Tuesday that forcing...

Tesla's new electric pickup truck has inspired unlikely art in the form of a mashed potato sculpture.

Elon Musk is going on trial on Tuesday for his troublesome tweets in a defamation case pitting the billionaire against a British diver he allegedly branded a paedophile.

The draft final document to be adopted during the Normandy Quartet summit on the conflict in Donbass, due in France on December 9, contains no “breakthrough ideas,” TASS quoted on...

Bosses at Cineworld are hoping the final instalment of the Star Wars saga, due out later this month, will help the cinema chain see out a tough year for the...

Boohoo has hailed “strong” sales since the end of August as the online fashion giant said it benefited from a record performance across the Black Friday weekend.

A high-ranking Chinese diplomat is visiting Seoul this week for the first time in five years as the two countries seek to improve ties amid a spat over a US...

A powerful typhoon was blowing across the Philippines on Tuesday after slamming ashore overnight in an eastern province, damaging houses and an airport and knocking out power after tens of...

New Zealand moved to ban large foreign political donations and misleading social media advertisements on Tuesday amid concerns about “offshore interference in next year's general election.” The move, which bars...

Elon Musk is going on trial on Tuesday for his troublesome tweets in a defamation case pitting the billionaire against a British diver he allegedly branded a paedophile.

Australian police said on Tuesday they had found a second person who had been missing in the country's remote outback for weeks, saying he survived soaring temperatures by drinking water...

Melania Trump is celebrating American patriotism at the White House this Christmas.

Bloomberg News reporters have been barred from covering events on President Donald Trump's re-election bid due to alleged “biases”, campaign chiefs said on Monday.

Crying foul over timing, President Donald Trump on Monday accused Democrats of scheduling this week's impeachment hearing to undercut him during his trip abroad for a NATO leaders' meeting.

Prince Andrew's accuser Virginia Giuffre has called for the support of the British people and called the denials "bulls**t" .

Prince Andrew's accuser Virginia Giuffre has called for the support of the British people and called the denials "bulls**t" .

Amazon has halted the sale of Auschwitz-themed products such as Christmas decorations, a mouse pad and a bottle opener from its website, following an outpouring of disgust on social media.

Governments should redouble their efforts to tackle climate change because they owe it to those suffering the worst harm in a warming world, many of them living in small island...

A woman in Florida was arrested for faking medical problems aboard an American Airlines flight headed to Miami early on Friday morning, police say.

Crying foul over timing, President Donald Trump yesterday accused Democrats of scheduling this week's impeachment hearing to undercut him during his trip abroad for a Nato leaders' meeting.

Smooth, dark and small, it is an indispensable jump-start to the day for millions of Italians. Now Italy wants World Heritage recognition for its espresso coffee.

The family of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the murdered Maltese journalist, lodged an official request yesterday for the prime minister to be investigated by police over his links to the crime.

Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi have embarked on an impassioned publicity campaign as the Myanmar leader prepares to travel to the Netherlands to fight charges of genocide against her...

Russia deliberately allowed a suspect in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to leave the country, Dutch prosecutors said yesterday, calling it a breach of a European extradition...

The Conservative Party's lead over the Labour Party is seven points, according to an opinion poll by ICM, the first to be conducted entirely after Friday's terror attack near London...

Former US president Jimmy Carter has been admitted to hospital for treatment of a urinary tract infection, a spokeswoman said.

A snake has been found in the back of a lorry in Purfleet, Essex after being ferried thousands of miles from India.

AN IRISH woman has described seeing smoke rising from guns as police shot dead a terrorist who had killed two people in London on Friday.