Rising US Democratic party politician Katie Hill announced her resignation on Sunday amid an ethics probe, saying explicit private photos of her with a campaign staffer had been "weaponised" by...
October 28, 2019
Kurdish YPG forces in Syria have not fully withdrawn from the border territory as agreed in a Russia-brokered accord, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday. Ankara will soon...
October 28, 2019
An MP has been praised after he offered a “beautiful” description of what it is like to live with acute dyslexia.
October 28, 2019
Boots has posted sliding sales in the UK as its US-based owner hailed overall growth for the past year.
October 28, 2019
French luxury group LVMH says it has held preliminary discussions to purchase US jeweller Tiffany & Co.
October 28, 2019
Members of the European Parliament met on Monday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of a visit to disputed Kashmir, where India has imposed security restrictions, AP said. Modi...
October 28, 2019
Lebanese soldiers have forcibly removed anti-government protesters from a highway linking the southern city of Sidon to the capital, Beirut.
October 28, 2019
Fire chiefs have made an urgent public appeal for a high-rise cherry picker to help rescue a man stuck upside down 270ft up a chimney.
October 28, 2019
Northern Ireland trucker Mo Robinson was accused of being part of "a global ring" when he appeared in court over the alleged manslaughter of 39 migrants who were found dead...
October 28, 2019
The driver of a truck in which 39 people were found dead appeared in a British court via video link on Monday charged with manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people.
October 28, 2019
The driver of a truck in which 39 people were found dead appeared in a British court via video link on Monday charged with manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people.
October 28, 2019
President Emmanuel Macron vowed no let up in his drive to implement France's far-reaching pension reforms despite a looming winter of strikes by unions angered by the plan, AFP reports....
October 28, 2019
The takeover battle for Just Eat heated up on Monday as its preferred merger partner launched an attack on an investment vehicle that is trying to gatecrash the party.
October 28, 2019
A rescue operation is under way after a man became trapped 270 feet up a chimney.
October 28, 2019
Kylie Jenner has shared pictures of her mini-me daughter wearing a replica of one of her famous outfits for Halloween.
October 28, 2019
A reporter has disrupted a police news conference in Hong Kong to protest against what she called escalating violence by officers against journalists covering the city's pro-democracy protests.
October 28, 2019
Lebanese demonstrators set up barricades and parked cars across key roads on Monday to protest corruption and press their demands for a radical overhaul of the political system. The protesters...
October 28, 2019
Picture booth operator Photo-Me has promised to roll out fresh pineapple and apple juice vending machines to railway stations in the next two years as it looks for new revenue...
October 28, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump was greeted with boos and a smattering of chants of "Lock him up!" when he appeared on screen at the World Series in Washington on Sunday,...
October 28, 2019
Britain has sent dossiers to Vietnam, seeking its assistance in identifying four of the 39 people found dead in a truck container outside London last week, the government of the...
October 28, 2019
Eliminating the elusive leader of so-called Islamic State has given US president Donald Trump a new argument for leaving Syria, but the American military campaign against the extremists is far...
October 28, 2019
US president Donald Trump's appearance at game five of baseball's World Series drew loud boos and jeers when he was introduced to the crowd in Washington DC.
October 28, 2019
Advertising tycoon Sir Martin Sorrell has started the week by expanding his rapidly growing media empire with two new acquisitions in the UK and South Korea.
October 28, 2019
Bolivian officials say they're negotiating with the Organization of American States for an audit of the country's presidential election. The results are being challenged by opponents who say President Evo...
October 28, 2019
The boss of a scandal-hit mining business Ferrexpo has stepped down to focus on “resolving certain matters” over the 2015 collapse of a bank he used to own.
October 28, 2019
John Conyers, the longest-serving black member of US congress and founder of the Black Caucus, has died at the age of 90.
October 28, 2019
HSBC is to speed up its plans to remodel the bank after its chief executive singled out the poorly-performing UK business just weeks after reports that up to 10,000 jobs...
October 28, 2019
California's governor declared a statewide emergency on Sunday, with ferocious winds driving multiple wildfires through bone-dry vegetation and nearly 200,000 people ordered to leave their homes.
October 28, 2019
Conservative President Mauricio Macri conceded defeat in Argentina's election Sunday night, paving the way for the country's Peronist centre-left to return to power under Alberto Fernandez.
October 28, 2019
A 13th-century masterpiece discovered in an elderly French woman's kitchen has sold for €24m.
October 28, 2019
The eight American stealth helicopters, carrying Delta Force and Navy Seals, came in fast and low over the olive trees in Barisha, a village of a few thousand people in...
October 28, 2019
An album of lost recordings made by Doris Day in the 1940s has been revived by a man who she babysat for as a budding star.
October 28, 2019
The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) made sweeping gains in regional elections yesterday, inflicting heavy losses on Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU).
October 28, 2019
Hong Kong police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters, many wearing banned face masks, who had converged on the Kowloon harbour-front tourist district yesterday to denounce...
October 28, 2019
Tens of thousands of Catalans rallied in support of Spanish unity in a Barcelona counter-demonstration yesterday following another night of violence between police and separatist protesters.
October 28, 2019
Thousands of Iraqi protesters stood fast in Baghdad's central Tahrir Square yesterday, defying a bloody crackdown that killed scores over the weekend and an overnight raid by security forces seeking...
October 28, 2019
Authorities in northern California have ordered 180,000 residents to flee their homes as winds fuelled a wildfire in the wine country.
October 28, 2019
Ivan Milat, whose grisly serial killings of seven German, British and Australian backpackers horrified Australia in the early 1990s, died in a Sydney prison yesterday aged 74, ending hopes of...
October 28, 2019
A diplomat at the centre of the Donald Trump impeachment inquiry did say there was a "quid pro quo" between the US president and Ukraine, according to his lawyer.
