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A dog which fell through ice into a frozen lake had a lucky escape after being saved by rescuers.

France will for the first time set quotas for the number of immigrant workers from outside the EU it allows into the country, Labor Minister Muriel Penicaud said on Tuesday....

Some of Britain's top betting companies have committed £10 million to a programme to teach children about the perils of gambling.

Drug cartel gunmen in Mexico have ambushed three vehicles along a dirt road, slaughtering at least six children and three women, all of them US citizens living in the north...

Renewed hopes of an end to the US-China trade war ensured another positive session for global markets, with London stocks benefiting from the cheer.

It may be much loved by children of all ages but Sesame Street, the show that is not just for muppets, is turning 50.

A London tenant was left unable to warm his house up after his landlord put the thermostat in a cage.

Facebook has faced calls to ban all political advertising ahead of the forthcoming General Election, after a number of misleading ads were taken down from the platform.

More than two thirds of hotel industry investors say Brexit has made regional UK cities less attractive.

Yemen's Saudi-backed government and southern separatists signed an agreement on Tuesday to end a power struggle in the south of Yemen, Reuters reported. No details were given but sources had...

A decision on Cobham's £4 billion takeover by US private equity giant Advent International has been delayed after the Government said it needed more time.

Nigerian firefighters were battling two fires that broke out almost simultaneously at a busy market in central Lagos, the country's largest city and commercial centre.

Russia's military police and Turkey's border guard service have finished the second joint patrol mission along the border with Turkey in northern Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday....

The world's oldest working post office has been put up for sale with a £275,000 price tag.

Iran's intelligence ministry on Tuesday said any cooperation with the British Council was banned and would result in prosecution. “Britain… was planning to implement a project for cultural networking purposes...

Several dozen survivors of Bosnia's 1992-95 war have protested in Sarajevo, urging the Nobel Committee to reverse its decision to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature to Austrian writer...

Bosnian war survivors, including mothers who lost husbands and sons in the Srebrenica massacre, have protested in Sarajevo, urging the Nobel Committee to reverse its decision to award the 2019...

The EU's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Tuesday that talks on a future trading relationship with Britain would be difficult, as the bloc “will not tolerate unfair competitive advantage,”...

Bosses of insurance firms have been warned by the Bank of England to improve their workplace culture after recent reports revealing sexual harassment and bullying.

European Union Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has drawn the battle lines for the upcoming free trade talks with the UK once it has left the bloc and warned Britain not...

EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier says talks on a free trade deal with the UK once the country has left the bloc might be as tough as the Brexit talks...

Nigerian firefighters are trying to extinguish a major fire at the Balogun market in central Lagos.

Annette Bening will receive AARP the Magazine's lifetime achievement honour at the Movies for Grown-ups Awards next year.

Optimism among small and medium-sized manufacturing firms (SMEs) has plunged in the last three months faster than any pace since July 2016, according to the Confederation of British Industry.

Gubernatorial and legislative elections in four states US on Tuesday provide a test of voter enthusiasm and party organisation amid impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump and while Democrats decide...

OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo said on Tuesday that the oil producer group fully supports the Paris Agreement on climate change. The statement comes a day after the Trump administration said...

At least three anti-government protesters have been killed in clashes with security forces in southern Iraq, officials said, as authorities tried to reopen the country's main port, which had been...

Vast quantities of foam in Salford's River Irwell baffled members of the public on Monday morning.

Vast quantities of foam in Salford's River Irwell baffled members of the public on Tuesday morning.

Lebanese troops deployed on Tuesday in different parts of the country to reopen roads and main thoroughfares closed by anti-government protesters faced resistance in some areas, leading to scuffles, AP...

Prominent UK Conservative Party politician Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 could have used common sense to ignore the instructions of the fire...

Jacob Rees-Mogg has “profoundly” apologised for suggesting Grenfell victims should have used “common sense” and ignored fire service guidance not to leave the burning tower block.

Engineer Weir has warned over profits in its oil and gas division and revealed a fifth of its US workforce has been axed as it battles against tough trading in...

Dramatic CCTV footage has shown the moment a rail worker pulled a passenger from the tracks one second before a train was about to hit him.

The possibility of talks between nuclear-armed North Korea and Washington is “narrowing,” Pyongyang said on Tuesday after the US State Department reaffirmed its designation as a state sponsor of terrorism,...

A pilot flying a Boeing 747 on its final journey has marked the occasion by drawing a portrait of the aircraft in the sky.

A man who fatally stabbed a former co-worker who interrupted him during a 1992 burglary has been executed in South Dakota.

Poland broke EU law when it lowered the retirement age for judges in 2017 and introduced a different retirement age for women and men in the profession, the bloc's top...

The boss of Topps Tiles has announced plans to quit at the end of the month.

Iran's president has announced that Tehran will begin injecting uranium gas into 1,044 centrifuges.