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Iraqi police fired live rounds to disperse crowds which defied a pre-dawn curfew to protest after 11 people were killed in clashes that have become one of the worst security...

US President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of abuse on Democratic leaders in a series of tweets and television appearances as House leaders stepped up their impeachment inquiry into his...

Ensnared in an impeachment investigation over his request for Ukraine to investigate a chief political rival, President Donald Trump yesterday called on another nation to probe former vice president Joe...

The next president of the European Commission revealed yesterday she will sleep in the EU executive's offices rather than rent an apartment in Brussels.

Animal rescue services in Germany have been criticised after they shot dead an escaped circus zebra that strayed on to the autobahn.

Israel has sworn in its newly elected parliament for what could be a very short term after the country's second inconclusive election of the year left it with no new...

Three Paris policemen and a female administrative assistant were stabbed to death at the force's headquarters yesterday by an employee who went on a rampage after evading security with a...

US Senate and House Republicans may be talking a good game in support of Donald Trump and his conspiracy theories and constitutional wrecking ball, but understand the fix most of...

A quadriplegic man can walk again thanks to a breakthrough computer that can read his mind.

Nelson Mandela's widow has offered Prince Harry and Meghan Markle the chance of the trio working together.

Microplastics have been found in penguins for the first time, scientists have revealed.

Doctors studying lung tissue from people with vaping-related injuries have ruled out one probable explanation of how vaping harms the lungs, further deepening the mystery over the exact cause of...

The former special US envoy to Ukraine has told members of Congress that he warned Ukrainians to steer clear of American politics.

Anti-government demonstrators have defied an around-the-clock curfew in Baghdad and other cities as Iraqi security forces used live ammunition and tear gas during a third day of unrest.

Harvey Weinstein has lost a long-shot bid to move his sexual assault trial out of New York City.

At least 27 people have been killed and more than 600 injured in protests across Iraq, police and medical sources say. Police have responded with lethal force, after protesters burned...

A Banksy artwork depicting MPs in the House of Commons as chimpanzees has been sold for £9.9 million, in what organisers say is a record for the street artist.

Robert De Niro's former assistant is suing the American actor, saying he subjected her to sexist and harassing comments.

President Donald Trump has accused Democrats of an attempt to “totally obliterate” the United States' health insurance programme Medicare.

A 45-year-old IT assistant at the police headquarters in central Paris went on a knife rampage inside the building on Thursday, killing three police officers and an administrative worker before...

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has changed her Twitter bio in response to criticism from Vladimir Putin at a forum in Moscow.

An advert for a footballer has been spotted on jobs website Indeed, apparently from a “recent former Championship club now in the EFL League”.

MGM Resorts International has reached a settlement that could pay up to 800 million US dollars (£647 million) to families of the 58 people who died and hundreds of others...

A serial dating site rapist has had his prison term extended by two and a half years after sex attacks on a further five women.

Bernie Sanders will participate in the upcoming Democratic presidential debate after being taken to hospital this week because of a blocked artery in his heart.

A former Lord Of The Rings visual effects technician has admitted killing his parents at their home in Kensington after a row over his dog Enzo.

A "devoted" pregnant mother who disappeared without a trace in 1999 was killed by her husband and her body hidden, a court has heard.

An airman who was aboard a B-17 bomber that crashed in the US state of Connecticut opened open a hatch that allowed some passengers to escape a fire.

TWO English rugby players who died after taking heroin during a tour of Sri Lanka did not mean to purchase the drug, a coroner has said.

The FTSE 100 tumbled further into the red on another ugly day for the global markets.

The Spanish government says it has planned measures amounting to 300 million euros (£292 million) to deal with the fallout of the collapse of British tour operator Thomas Cook.

President Donald Trump has called on another nation to probe former vice president Joe Biden.

The Ugandan pop star and opposition figure whose trademark red beret has been banned by the government is urging supporters to defy the order that he calls a “sham”.

Twitter has removed a tweet from President Donald Trump that featured an edited Nickelback music video clip that took aim at former vice president Joe Biden.

Twitter has removed a tweet from President Donald Trump that featured an edited Nickelback music video clip that took aim at former vice president Joe Biden.

Diogo Freitas do Amaral, a conservative politician who played a leading role in cementing democracy after Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution and later became president of the UN General Assembly, has...

Workplace pension schemes have stepped up their Brexit preparations – with nearly two-thirds saying they have formally assessed the potential risks during the past year, a survey has found.

A man attacked police officers with a knife in the headquarters of the Paris police today and the attacker was killed, two sources close to the police told Reuters.

A man who killed a police officer with a knife in the headquarters of the Paris police today has been killed, French media and sources close to the police said.

Four people have been killed in an attack on the police headquarters in Paris on Thursday, a police source told Reuters.