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US president Donald Trump's administration is set to impose economic sanctions on Ankara, potentially as early as this week, for its incursion into northern Syria, one of the few levers...

One of Britain's worst paedophiles, who abused up to 200 Malaysian children, has been stabbed to death in prison.

Riot police last night engaged in a running battle with protesters outside Barcelona's airport after Spain's Supreme Court convicted 12 separatist leaders of illegally promoting the Catalonia region's independence and...

Russia-backed Syrian forces wasted no time in taking advantage of an abrupt US retreat from Syria yesterday, deploying deep inside Kurdish-held territory less than 24 hours after Washington announced a...

Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, warned that efforts to divide or destabilise China would end with "shattered bones", as international pressure mounted over the government's handling of protests in Hong...

A baby girl found buried alive in India was a suspected case of female infanticide, police said yesterday, the latest to highlight the preference for sons in a country where...

Ex-England footballer Paul Gascoigne sexually assaulted a train passenger by planting a "sloppy", drunken kiss on her lips and later told police he did it to boost her confidence, a...

Facebook has officially moved forward with its plans to create a new digital currency called Libra, despite several high-profile defections from the project and intense criticism from US regulators and...

Riot police have engaged in a running battle with protesters outside Barcelona's airport after Spain's Supreme Court convicted 12 separatist leaders of illegally promoting the Catalonia region's independence and sentenced...

A homemade, remote-controlled bomb intended to “kill or to harm” riot police was detonated as they deployed against renewed violence in Hong Kong over the weekend, officers have said.

Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party secured a narrow majority in the lower house of parliament in Sunday's general election, according to the final result count announced by the...

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has voiced his disappointment over a judgement that people born in Northern Ireland are automatically British.

A white police officer accused of the fatal shooting of a black woman in her home in Texas has resigned, according to officials.

The family of a black woman who was shot and killed by a white police officer in her Texas home as she played video games with her eight-year-old nephew have...

Syrian government troops have moved into towns and villages in northern Syria, setting up a potential clash with Turkish-led forces advancing in the area.

Poland's conservative ruling Law and Justice party capitalised on its popular social spending policies to win a majority of seats in the lower house of parliament but lost control of...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that Tehran would continue to scale back its commitments to the 2015 nuclear agreement until the European Union fulfils promises it made under...

The market failed to keep up the optimism it had shown late last week as China signalled it might take longer than hoped to wrap up the first part of...

President Donald Trump is trying to influence votes on ABC's Dancing With The Stars.

Mike Ashley's Sports Direct has called for wide-ranging investigation into the sportswear industry, complaining about the dominance and Adidas and Nike.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth set out Prime Minister Boris Johnson's agenda for his government on Monday, including an October 31 Brexit, a new deal with the European Union, and a host...

Israeli police arrested the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem and a local official of the mainstream Fatah party in dawn raids on Monday in the disputed city, AFP reports, citing their...

A statue of Christopher Columbus has been vandalised on the US holiday that bears his name.

Shooting off flares and shouting “glory to Ukraine”, thousands of far-right and nationalist activists marched through Kiev, protesting against President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's leadership and his long-awaited peace plan for eastern...

An Extinction Rebellion co-founder faces trial next year accused of allegedly attempting to cause disruption at Heathrow Airport using a drone.

Pope Francis' chief bodyguard has resigned over the leak of a Vatican police flyer identifying five Holy See employees who were suspended as part of a financial investigation.

The former boss of Moneysupermarket and Just Eat has joined Photobox as its new chairman, the company has announced.

Tributes have been paid at the funeral of the "treasured" Pc Andrew Harper after he was killed while responding to a burglary.

Spain's Supreme Court in has issued an European arrest warrant for the former head of Catalonia's regional government, Carles Puigdemont. He now lives in self-imposed exile in Belgium. In July...

Jury members trying ex-England footballer Paul Gascoigne for sexual assault have been told to put any views they have of him to one side.

Neptune Energy has followed a surging private equity push in the North Sea, by making a 280 million US dollar (£221.3 million) splash to take over oil fields from Italy's...

The United Nations' food agency says around 14% of the food produced globally is lost and is urging action to address the causes of food loss as part of efforts...

The 2019 Nobel Prize in economics has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for pioneering new ways to alleviate global poverty.

A Spanish Supreme Court judge has issued an international arrest warrant for fugitive ex-Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont following the sentencing of 12 of his pro-Catalonia independence colleagues in Spain for...

The EU on Monday extended sanctions against four alleged Russian intelligence agents the UK says are linked to the 2018 nerve agent attack against Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury,...

Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn was caught on film grimacing to a camera operator as he walked through Parliament.

A mountaineer gearing up to take charge of a post office in the wilds of the Antarctic has said it is a privilege.

A dozen Catalan politicians and activists have been convicted on charges of sedition, misuse of public funds and disobedience for their role in an illegal and failed secession attempt for...

Richard Huckle, one of Britain's worst paedophiles who abused up to 200 Malaysian children, has been stabbed to death in prison, sources said.

The European Union has approved the German government's decision to grant airline Condor, a subsidiary of collapsed tour operator Thomas Cook, a 380 million-euro (£334 million) bridging loan to keep...