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Toy maker Lego said its revenue was up 4% in the first half of 2019 but significant investments to create long-term growth led to a 12% drop in net profit.

International organizations need to work together for the development of a counter-terrorism front, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said on Tuesday. Speaking at an international conference on counter-terrorism in Minsk, he...

The Restaurant Group said it is looking to exit a number of Chiquito and Frankie & Benny's sites to stabilise its long-term future after posting hefty losses.

The Restaurant Group said it is looking to exit a number of Chiquito and Frankie & Benny's sites to stabilise its long-term future after posting hefty losses.

An Iranian oil tanker being pursued by the US has turned off its tracking beacon, leading to renewed speculation that it will head to Syria.

Hurricane Dorian came to a catastrophic day-long halt over the north-west Bahamas, flooding the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama with walls of water.

A concert featuring the music of late star Avicii is being planned in Sweden to raise money for suicide prevention.

Plumbing giant Ferguson has announced plans to break up and create a separate UK business, as it also confirmed the departure of its top boss.

China has insisted it is not the source of the fentanyl that is killing Americans, contrary to President Donald Trump's recent tweets blaming China for the drug deaths.

Hurricane Dorian came to a catastrophic day-long halt over the north-west Bahamas, flooding the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama with walls of water.

At least five people have died after Hurricane Dorian pounded away at the Bahamas for a day and a half.

The death toll from a late-night Taliban suicide attack in the Afghan capital has risen to 16 civilians, with 119 other people injured, an official said.

The Taliban has defended a suicide bombing at an international compound in the Afghan capital which killed at least 16 civilians and wounded 119 others, just hours after a US...

The death toll from a Taliban suicide attack in Kabul late on Monday night has risen to 16 civilians, with another 119 people wounded, an Afghan official said.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said she has never considered tendering her resignation to China over the anti-government protests that have disrupted the city for three months.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she has never tendered her resignation to China over the anti-government protests that have roiled the city for three months.

Police in Las Vegas have said rapper Fetty Wap was arrested after allegedly assaulting three employees at a hotel.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold a snap general election on October 14 if the UK Parliament votes to seize control of Brexit from him tonight.

More than 400 airline passengers have been arrested on suspicion of being drunk in the past two years, a probe has found.

The bodies of eight people killed by a raging fire that swept through a dive boat off the California coast have been recovered as authorities searched for more than two...

The bodies of eight people killed by a raging fire that swept through a dive boat off the California coast have been recovered as authorities searched for more than two...

Hurricane Dorian has slammed into the Bahamas with the full ferocity of a monstrous Category 5 cyclone.

The Israeli military faked injuries to its soldiers to trick Hezbollah into believing it caused casualties during Sunday's round of fighting on the Lebanese border.

Those who held their noses as a rural Irish town feted Donald Trump earlier this year had better stock up on smelling salts.

The man who killed seven people and wounded 22 others in a rolling rampage across West Texas on Saturday was fired from his trucking job hours before the massacre, media...

Divers have found a total of 25 bodies on Monday after a pre-dawn fire sank a scuba diving vessel off a Southern California island, leaving nine people unaccounted for as...

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners have held off a surge in far-right support in two state elections in eastern Germany, averting an immediate crisis...

It was just five days after Boris Johnson had entered Downing Street when the six-member Brexit "war cabinet" met for the first time to set out a strategy for abolishing...

Taxidermy owls on a zip wire have helped determine why white barn owls can be more successful at startling their prey.

Kristen Stewart has said she was advised to be less affectionate with her girlfriend in public if she ever wanted to land a role in a Marvel film.

Thousands of Hong Kong university and school students boycotted class and rallied peacefully for democracy yesterday, the latest acts of defiance in an anti-government movement that has plunged the Chinese-ruled...

The US has agreed in principle to withdraw 5,000 troops from five military bases in Afghanistan over 20 weeks.

Greece has begun moving hundreds of asylum seekers from a camp on the island of Lesbos that holds around four times the number of people it was built for.

At least 25 people have died and nine are still missing after a fire raged through a boat carrying recreational scuba divers anchored near an island off the Southern California...

At least eight people have died after a fire raged through a boat carrying recreational scuba divers anchored near an island off the Southern California coast.

Hurricane Dorian has unleashed massive flooding across the Bahamas, killing at least five people.

The "arrogant" son of a former UK-government minister has admitted crushing a three-year-old boy to death with his car seat.

A gunman who killed seven people after a routine traffic stop in Texas had been fired from his job and called police and the FBI before the shooting began, authorities...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pleaded with Tory MPs not to support measures to block a no-deal Brexit amid speculation he could call an election if he loses the...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pleaded with Tory MPs not to support measures to block a no-deal Brexit amid speculation he could call an election if he loses the...