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Asda took a major step towards becoming a public company on Friday as bosses sold nearly £4 billion of the supermarket's pension liabilities.

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have donned cartoon character masks as they formed a human chain across the semi-autonomous Chinese city, in defiance of a government ban on face coverings.

A bomb exploded in a mosque in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, reportedly killing and wounding at least 17 men who had gathered for worship. Earlier reports said that ten...

Almost 230 people have lost their jobs after administrators were appointed at department store chain Watt Brothers.

An Italian “ultra” fan has been arrested and accused of killing a rival supporter who died after violence in Milan before a top-flight match last December.

An imam and three other men have been convicted by an Austrian court for running a religious group that recruited young men for Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). The court...

Nationwide protests have paralysed Lebanon as demonstrators blocked major roads in a second day of rallies against the government's management of a severe economic crisis and proposed new taxes.

Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has cancelled a cabinet meeting amid nationwide protests, Al Manar TV said, citing the interior minister. Protesters across Lebanon blocked roads with burning tyres on...

South Korea's PM Lee Nak-yon is expected to meet Japanese PM Shinzo Abe next Thursday in what would be the highest-level talks between the two countries since Tokyo imposed export...

European Union leaders broke off talks without agreement early Friday on whether to launch membership negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia. The two countries were expecting to receive a green...

Organisers of a Dutch beach party to bid farewell to the UK as it leaves the European Union say the festivities will go ahead on the scheduled date – whether...

Shares in easyHotel have jumped after the business delivered a surge in annual revenues despite a “challenging” second half.

The head of finance at the London Stock Exchange Group has announced that he will retire once the planned 27 billion US dollar (£20.9 billion) takeover of data group Refinitiv...

The British Parliament's Treasury Committee demanded that the Finance Ministry produce fresh economic forecasts of the cost of leaving the EU under Prime Minister Boris Johnson's new deal before MPs...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Friday, hours after Turkey agreed with Washington to pause its offensive on...

Fugitive ex-Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has handed himself in to Belgian justice authorities after Spain issued a new warrant for his arrest following the sentencing of 12 of his former...

Holiday Inn owner InterContinental Hotels saw third-quarter sales slip as it was hit by political unrest in Hong Kong.

London-listed Elegant Hotels, which owns and runs seven luxury hotels in Barbados, has been bought by international rival Marriott Hotels for £101 million, the company has confirmed.

Barcelona is bracing for a fifth day of protests over the conviction of a dozen independence leaders.

One of the UK's biggest warehouse and logistics businesses has emerged as another possible bidder for haulage company Eddie Stobart Logistics.

An intense gunfight has paralysed the capital of Mexico's Sinaloa state after security forces located one of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman's sons who is wanted in the US on drug...

Fighting has continued in a Syrian town at the centre of the battle between Turkey and Kurdish forces despite a US-brokered ceasefire.

The White House has acknowledged Donald Trump's decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine was linked to his demand that Kiev investigate the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the...

Kylie Jenner has shared an adorable video of daughter Stormi dancing to a remix of her viral Rise And Shine song.

A woman living in a van in San Diego with her pet rats has agreed to give them up – all 320 of them.

Police have freed hundreds of manacled boys from a madrassa in northern Nigeria for the third time in a month, raising fears of systemic torture and sexual abuse in Islamic...

Catalonia should hold a new vote on independence from Spain within two years, the head of the region's government said yesterday in a fresh challenge to Madrid following days of...

For the record, Wednesday was the 1,000th day of Donald Trump's presidency. He spent it the usual way, by saying unusual things.

Elijah E Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become the powerful chairman of a US House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, died yesterday of complications from long-standing health...

Former footballer Paul Gascoigne has been cleared of sexually assaulting a woman on a train after he kissed her on the lips.

Politicians were dragged out by security guards for heckling leader Carrie Lam as Hong Kong's parliament descended into chaos.

A Dutch court extended the custody of the man who paid the rent on a farmhouse where six members of a family were found locked away in a secret room...

The number of modern slavery crimes reported to police in the UK shot up by almost 50pc in the last year, according to a report.

Premature babies who are moved to a higher-level hospital unit shortly after birth are more likely to suffer severe brain injury than babies born in them, a study suggests.

Donald Trump's chief of staff yesterday confirmed US military aid to Ukraine had been held back to help secure corruption investigations linked to the Democrats, but denied Joe Biden was...

The US yesterday announced a 120-hour ceasefire by Turkey in north-east Syria to allow Kurdish fighters to withdraw from the region, effectively endorsing the aims of the Turkish offensive.

The US ambassador to the European Union has said Donald Trump instructed him and other envoys to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on Ukraine policy.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has said Chinese officials wanted Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey to be fired.

US energy secretary Rick Perry will leave his job by the end of the year, President Donald Trump has said.

Kim Kardashian West has joined a chorus of voices calling for clemency for a black man on Oklahoma's death row who has exhausted his appeals.