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A cat has been put in “solitary confinement” by an animal shelter for letting other cats out to roam the halls.

Unilever's chairman Marijn Dekkers will step down from his position with immediate effect a year after he U-turned on a decision to move the company to Rotterdam.

A Japanese spacecraft has departed from a distant asteroid, starting a year-long journey home after collecting soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar...

Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel on Wednesday, the second day of a spike in cross-border violence. The attack sent people rushing to shelters, although there were no reports of...

The head of Bolivia's Senate, Jeanine Anez, took office as interim president on Tuesday as former leader Evo Morales pledged to keep up his political fight from exile in Mexico...

Flooding in the Italian city of Venice has reached its second-highest level ever, after the infamous 1966 floods.

Israeli air strikes killed two Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza as rocket fire towards Israel resumed after a brief overnight lull, raising the death toll in the territory to 12...

Israeli air strikes killed two Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza as rocket fire towards Israel resumed after a brief overnight lull, raising the death toll in the territory to 16...

Spanish King Felipe VI and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel met on Tuesday at the start of the first modern state visit to Cuba by a member of the royal family...

The most distant world ever explored – four billion miles away – finally has an official name: Arrokoth.

Scores of wildfires continue to rage across vast tracts of Australia's drought-stricken east coast, forcing hundreds of residents to flee their homes, some for the second time in a week.

Venice was hit by the second highest-tide recorded in the lagoon city on Tuesday, which flooded its historic basilica and left many of its squares and alleyways deep underwater.

Police have increased security around Hong Kong and its university campuses as they braced for more violence after sharp clashes overnight with anti-government protesters.

The State Department has ordered family members of US government workers to vacate Bolivia and authorized the departure of non-essential diplomatic staff, as protests and violent clashes across the country...

Spain's Socialists and far-left Unidas Podemos party agreed on the basis of a coalition government yesterday, just two days after a general election delivered a highly fragmented parliament.

Diplomats and career government officials, they are little-known outside professional circles, but are about to become household names testifying in the House impeachment inquiry.

Republicans who sat in on closed-door impeachment hearings have reportedly drafted a memo with key talking points to defend Donald Trump as the proceedings are set to go public this...

Pope Francis has been accused of being "sacrilegious" and idolatrous for embracing indigenous symbols in the Vatican's recent summit on the Amazon by a group of 100 Catholic traditionalists.

Ferocious wildfires were burning at emergency level intensity across Australia's most populous state and into Sydney's suburbs yesterday as authorities warned people in their paths there was no longer time...

Israeli airstrikes yesterday targeted two senior commanders from the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, killing one in Gaza but missing another in Syria.

When millions of Americans watch the first televised hearing in the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump today, they will see a different procedure from that usually used for...

Hong Kong police yesterday fired tear gas in the Central financial district, over the harbour in Mong Kok and at universities to break up pro-democracy protests they said were leading...

Evo Morales, Bolivia's former president, landed in Mexico yesterday to claim asylum, having spent the night on a floor two days after resigning.

Clashes broke out in the streets of the Bolivian capital after an opposition leader in the Senate declared herself the country's interim president following the resignation of Evo Morales.

Australia's highest court has agreed to hear an appeal from the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children.

An incestuous couple who murdered their two teenage sons and plotted to kill four other children have been told they will serve a minimum of 35 years behind bars.

Robert De Niro will receive the Screen Actors Guild's life achievement award.

Orders and deliveries of new Boeing planes remain depressed eight months into the grounding of the company's 737 Max.

The US Supreme Court's conservative majority signaled support on Tuesday for President Donald Trump's bid to kill a program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants - dubbed "Dreamers" -...

Former president Evo Morales has flown to exile in Mexico after weeks of violent protests in Bolivia, leaving behind a confused power vacuum in the Andean nation.

Blue chip giant Vodafone has dialled up big share gains after hiking its earnings outlook, as the wider FTSE 100 Index lifted on optimism over the US-China trade war.

Former US president Jimmy Carter is recovering after surgery to relieve pressure from brain bleeding linked to recent falls.

French President Emmanuel Macron and other leaders have called for greater international cooperation to ease the world's tensions at a forum in Paris that was notable for the absence of...

British singer Pete Doherty has been handed a three-month suspended sentence and a fine of 10,000 euros (£8,500) after being arrested in Paris twice in a week, city prosecutors said.

Europeans have failed to fulfill their own commitments to Iran's 2015 nuclear deal, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Tuesday. The statement came in response to a warning by...

Turkish officials are performing a post-mortem examination and other procedures as they try to establish how a former British Army officer who helped found the White Helmets volunteer aid group...

When an Islamist preacher took up the fight in Burkina Faso's northern borderlands almost a decade ago, his only weapon was a radio station. The words he spoke kindled the...

More than 200 elephants have died amid a severe drought, Zimbabwe's parks agency said, and a mass relocation is planned to ease the problem.

Tourists and Venetians alike have donned high boots and taken to temporary raised walkways to slosh through the high water that has hit much of the lagoon city.

The European Union pressed Britain on Tuesday to name a representative for the new executive European Commission despite the country's planned departure for the bloc. The British government has so...