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A leading cleric in Iraq has warned of civil war after a deadly day of violence in which security forces shot dead 40 people in the capital and the southern...

Cyprus' Foreign Ministry on Friday decried an agreement between Turkey and Libya's UN-backed government to delineate the maritime boundaries between the two countries as a serious breach of international law....

Estate agent Countrywide has secured the £38 million sale of its commercial arm as it battles to cut its debt burden.

The two men who have personified the European Union across the world in recent years are bowing out.

Thames Water has a “very high quality” shortlist of candidates in the hunt for a new chief executive, months after former boss Steve Robertson left.

Australians affected by recent devastating wildfires in the country have joined young environmentalists kicking off a global protest demanding that governments act against climate change.

BORIS Johnson has defended disparaging remarks he made about single mothers, telling a voter they were made before he was "even in politics".

Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani urged parliament on Friday to drop its support for the current cabinet after two months of anti-government protests that have left nearly...

TWO K-pop stars have been jailed by a court in South Korea after being found guilty of a sexual attack on a woman.

The Taliban said on Friday it was “way too early” to speak of resuming direct talks with Washington. The statement came a day after US President Donald Trump stated during...

Supermarket Ocado will hire almost 400 developers in the UK after it signed a multimillion-pound deal to provide its online shopping platform to one of Japan's largest retailers.

Hong Kong police have ended their blockade of a university campus after surrounding it for 12 days to try to arrest anti-government protesters holed up inside.

Afghanistan's leading presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, has organized protests over a recount in elections that have been mired in accusations of fraud. Thousands of Abdullah's supporters rallied on Friday in...

BORIS Johnson has been accused of "trying to restrict the free press" by threatening Channel 4 and of "running scared" of scrutiny by not committing to a BBC interview with...

New authorities in Sudan have ordered that the party of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir be dissolved and his regime “dismantled,” heeding the call of protesters, AFP reports. Bashir and his...

Two K-pop stars have been jailed by a court in South Korea after being found guilty of a sexual attack on a woman who was unable to resist.

Customers at HSBC and Santander are to share a multimillion-pound windfall after the two banks were ordered to pay back overdraft fees.

Customers at HSBC and Santander are to share a multimillion-pound windfall after the two banks were forced to pay back overdraft fees.

Renowned US free climber Brad Gobright has died in a fall in Mexico.

Qatar's foreign minister has made an unannounced visit to Riyadh, Reuters reported, citing sources, amid signs that a rift among US-allied Gulf Arab states could soon subside. Sheikh Mohammed bin...

President Donald Trump has paid a surprise Thanksgiving visit to Afghanistan, where he announced the US and Taliban have been engaged in ongoing peace talks.

A prominent Maltese businessman has told police that former government chief of staff Keith Schembri was the mastermind behind the 2017 murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, two people briefed...

China warned the United States yesterday that it would take "firm counter measures" in response to US legislation backing anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, and said attempts to interfere in...

SECURITY forces in Iraq shot dead 27 anti- government protesters in a 24-hour period amid spiralling violence in the capital and the country's south, as Iran condemned the burning of...

Nato leaders must have a deep discussion about the future of the military alliance and how ties with Russia can be improved, French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday.

North Korea fired two short range projectiles into the sea off its east coast yesterday in what appeared to be the latest tests of new multiple rocket launchers.

London's Metropolitan Police has said it stands by its decision not to investigate claims by Prince Andrew's accuser Virginia Giuffre that she was sex trafficked to London by Jeffrey Epstein.

Irish shoppers hoping to capitalise on the UK's political crisis with pre-Brexit bargains have missed the boat.

An 18,000-year-old puppy unearthed in Siberia could prove to be the missing link between dogs and wolves, scientists believe.

Three women have accused Gordon Sondland, the United States ambassador to the EU, of sexual misconduct.

Hungary has pulled out of the Eurovision song contest amid speculation the competition is "too gay" for the country's far-right government.

Bereaved families have branded the trial of Hillsborough match commander former police chief superintendent David Duckenfield a "disgrace" after he was cleared of the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool...

The United States yesterday accused Russia of helping Syria conceal the use of banned toxic munitions in the civil war by undermining the work of the global chemical weapons agency...

A diamond worth more than €10m is among the treasures stolen from a Dresden museum.

A test firing of a “super-large” multiple rocket launcher by North Korea was a final review of the weapon's combat application, Pyongyang has said.

Conservationists at Chester Zoo were delighted when a Sumatran orangutan gave birth to an infant male earlier in November.

US president Donald Trump made a surprise Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Thursday and said he believed Taliban insurgents would agree to a ceasefire in America's longest...

A statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been put under police protection just weeks after its unveiling due to vandalism from fans of his boyhood club.

President Donald Trump has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to spend time with US troops on Thanksgiving.

One day in the summer of 2017, Vince Muscat dropped his friend Alfred Degiorgio at the Busy Bee, a harbour-front café near Malta's capital renowned for its pastries stuffed with...