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A total of 11 people have been injured in a shooting in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the early hours of Sunday.

Social media users have branded “chuntering” as the word of the day after Andrew Marr used the phrase against Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday.

Hong Kong police fired tear gas as a huge crowd took to the streets to demand more democracy and an investigation into the use of force to crack down on...

More than one in five smaller businesses say they will close in the next 12 months if Christmas is below average, a new survey suggests.

Footage taken during the London Bridge terror attack has revealed the sheer instinctive guts and determination of those who confronted Usman Khan in the moments after he carried out his...

The new leaders of the European Union take power today in Brussels, in a changing of the guard that promises a more austere, less maverick approach.

The Christian community in Jerusalem this weekend celebrated the return to the Holy Land of a tiny wooden relic they believe was part of Jesus's manger - nearly 1,400 years...

When Usman Khan put pen to paper from his cell at Belmarsh Prison in London seven years ago, he begged for the chance to "prove" he no longer harboured extremist...

The last remains of the 39 Vietnamese who died while being smuggled in a truck to England last month were repatriated to their home country yesterday.

After the atrocity at London Bridge last Friday evening, much electioneering was - rightly - suspended for a day. But the disclosure that 28-year-old knifeman Usman Khan had served a...

Jonathan Miller, who died last Wednesday aged 85, was a neurologist turned author, art lecturer, broadcaster, director of theatre and opera - and Britain's most established anti-establishmentarian.

Footage taken during the London Bridge terror attack has revealed the sheer instinctive guts and determination of those who confronted Usman Khan in the moments after he carried out his...

One of the two people killed in the London Bridge attack was a law and criminology course leader described as someone who was always "on the side of the underdog".

Composer Irving Burgie, who helped popularise Caribbean music and co-wrote the enduring Harry Belafonte hit Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), has died at the age of 95.

At least 14 people have been killed in a gun battle in Mexico.

On a warm October Monday afternoon two years ago, journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia got into her car parked outside her house on the north coast of the island of Malta...

China has accused the UN high commissioner for human rights of emboldening “radical violence” in Hong Kong.

Maltese prosecutors have charged a prominent local businessman as an accomplice in a 2017 car bombing which killed anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Maltese prosecutors have charged a prominent local businessman as an accomplice in a 2017 car bombing which killed anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

A victim of the London Bridge terror attack was part of the prison rehabilitation programme which terrorist Usman Khan had been involved with.

Members of Germany's junior governing party have chosen a left-leaning duo as their new leaders, a decision that could endanger the future of Chancellor Angela Merkel's troubled coalition.

A tiny wooden relic that some Christians believe to be part of Jesus's manger has arrived at its permanent home in the biblical city of Bethlehem, 1,400 years after it...

Dutch police have arrested a 35-year-old homeless man on suspicion of stabbing three teenagers on a street in The Hague that was crowded with Black Friday shoppers.

Three anti-government protesters have been shot dead and at least 58 others injured in continued unrest in Baghdad and southern Iraq even as Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi formally submitted his...

Thousands of climate activists have staged a protest at open-pit coal mines in eastern Germany, pouring on to the premises to urge the government to immediately halt the use of...

The search and rescue operation for earthquake survivors in Albania has ended, with the death toll at 51 and no more bodies believed to be in the ruins.

The London Bridge attacker was a convicted terrorist released half-way through a 16-year prison sentence for a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange.

Two protesters have been shot dead and at least 26 were wounded in Baghdad and southern Iraq, in continued unrest after Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced he intended to resign.

Dutch police are trying to trace an attacker who stabbed three teenagers on a street in The Hague that was crowded with Black Friday shoppers.

Hundreds of older activists have joined young protesters for a unity rally at a Hong Kong park, vowing that their months-long movement will not fade away until there is greater...

China has arrested a citizen of Belize in its southern city of Guangzhou for allegedly interfering in the internal affairs of Hong Kong. Lee Henley Hu Xiang, a Belizean businessman...

The last remains of the 39 Vietnamese people who died while being smuggled in a lorry to the UK have been repatriated to their home country.

British police named the man who stabbed two people to death in London on Friday in what the authorities called a terrorist attack as 28-year-old Usman Khan, who had been...

A police officer who bought coffee for colleagues working over Thanksgiving was handed cups labelled “PIG”.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has accused actor Leonardo DiCaprio of funding non-profit groups which he blames for devastating fires in the Amazon rainforest.

Robert Johnson, a lifelong Democrat and the US's first black billionaire, has assessed the Democratic contenders for next year's presidential election. And he doesn't like what he sees.

Aboriginal people have filed a compensation claim for more than €176bn against the Australian government.

Aboriginal people have filed a compensation claim for more than €176bn against the Australian government.

The latest terrorist attack at London Bridge appears to have echoes of the strike two years ago where eight people were killed and 48 seriously injured.

A crossbow killer who shot his pregnant ex-wife is likely to die in prison after being jailed for a minimum of 33 years.