Protesters have marched again in Hong Kong, defying police warnings that they were gathering illegally.
October 12, 2019
Turkey-backed Syrian opposition forces have reached a strategic highway in northeastern Syria as the offensive against Kurdish fighters enters its fourth day, according to reports.
October 12, 2019
Turkish forces have captured a key Syrian border town under heavy bombardment, the military and a Syrian war monitor have said.
October 12, 2019
Robert Forster, the character actor who saw a career resurgence and Oscar nomination for playing bail bondsman Max Cherry in Jackie Brown, has died aged 78.
October 12, 2019
Heavy rain and strong winds have pounded Tokyo as a powerful typhoon forecast as the worst in six decades approached landfall.
October 12, 2019
A heavy downpour and strong winds pounded Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday as a powerful typhoon forecast to be Japan's worst in six decades made landfall and passed over...
October 12, 2019
Heavy rain and strong winds pounded Tokyo as a powerful typhoon forecast to be Japan's worst in six decades made landfall.
October 12, 2019
Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow aged 85.
October 12, 2019
US President Donald Trump levelled some of his most personal attacks yet against Joe Biden and his family at his first campaign rally since House Democrats launched their impeachment inquiry.
October 12, 2019
Turkey stepped up its air and artillery strikes on Kurdish militia in northeast Syria yesterday, escalating an offensive that has drawn warnings of humanitarian catastrophe and turned Republican lawmakers against...
October 12, 2019
The US announced yesterday a new, large deployment of forces to Saudi Arabia to help bolster the kingdom's defences following the September 14 attack on its oil facilities, which Washington...
October 12, 2019
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was the odds-on favourite to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
October 12, 2019
More than three dozen Boeing 737s have been grounded worldwide after wing-related cracks were discovered during recent inspections, the company said.
October 12, 2019
Scientists have found a new way to transport medicine into the brain, which they hope could lead to improved treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer's in the future.
October 12, 2019
The daughter of a British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran has returned home to England after three years living in the Middle East.
October 12, 2019
Two dolphins, thought to be a mother and her calf, were rescued after getting into difficulty at a beach in Scotland.
October 12, 2019
Defying US President Donald Trump's ban on co-operation with the impeachment inquiry, former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told lawmakers last night that Mr Trump himself had pressured the...
October 12, 2019
Facebook paid £28.5m (€32.7m) in UK taxes last year despite reporting growing revenue of £1.65bn from advertising sales.
October 12, 2019
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was the odds-on favourite to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
October 12, 2019
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has called President Donald Trump's decision to pull US troops out of northern Syria "the biggest blunder of his presidency" after Turkey launched its military offensive...
October 12, 2019
Hundreds of mask-wearing pro-democracy protesters marched through Hong Kong's central business district yesterday, occupying a main thoroughfare and disrupting traffic as the Chinese-ruled city braced for another weekend of unrest.
October 12, 2019
An Iranian-owned oil tanker was struck, probably by missiles, in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia's coast, Iranian media said, an incident that if confirmed will stoke tension in a...
October 12, 2019
A 19-year-old Northern Ireland woman was hospitalised after being stabbed in a terrorist attack at Manchester's Arndale Shopping Centre.
October 11, 2019
President Donald Trump has said Kevin McAleenan is out as the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
October 11, 2019
A "quiet man" who bludgeoned his wife to death with a crowbar in a "frenzied" attack is facing a life sentence for murder after being "undone" by a speck of...
October 11, 2019
A prison officer who had sex in a cleaning cupboard with a murderer serving a life sentence at a maximum security prison has been jailed for 12 months.
October 11, 2019
Visa and Mastercard have announced their departure from Facebook's Libra project in a potentially fatal blow to the social network company's plan for a worldwide digital currency.
October 11, 2019
A toy fox terrier that disappeared from her family's Florida home in 2007 has been found over a thousand miles away in Pittsburgh and reunited with her owner.
October 11, 2019
A man believed to be a French fugitive accused of killing his wife and four children has been arrested in Scotland after eight years on the run, French police said.
October 11, 2019
The US is suspending a tariff hike on 250 billion dollars of Chinese imports that was set to take effect on Tuesday as the world's two biggest economies reached a...
October 11, 2019
Turkish forces faced fierce resistance from Kurdish fighters on the third day of Ankara's offensive in northern Syria, as casualties mounted and the number of those who fled the violence...
October 11, 2019
Members of the LGBTQ community have been sharing their stories for Coming Out Day, an annual celebration held on October 11 to celebrate opening up about sexual orientation.
October 11, 2019
Former South African president Jacob Zuma will face trial on corruption charges after a court dismissed his application to halt the case for good.
October 11, 2019
Some 100,000 people have left their homes in northeastern Syria with a growing number staying in shelters and schools following this week's Turkish military incursion in the region, the UN...
October 11, 2019
The FTSE 100 rose on Friday as housebuilders and other UK-focused firms led the way, buoyed by a light at the end of Brexit negotiations.
October 11, 2019
Former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch has told a Capitol committee that the State Department was pressured by President Donald Trump to remove her from her position.
October 11, 2019
A Scot who was released after two decades on death row in the US has again been charged with threatening a former assistant prosecutor.
October 11, 2019
US consumers have been stocking up on Italian Parmesan cheese ahead of an increase in tariffs to take effect next week.
October 11, 2019
Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow aged 85.
October 11, 2019
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan is likely to visit Saudi Arabia and Iran, the Foreign Office in Islamabad has said. The statement came weeks after Islamabad said Washington had asked...
