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Countries have agreed to limit the controversial sale of wild elephants caught in Zimbabwe and Botswana.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan is considering a complete closure of airspace to India and blocking Indian land trade to Afghanistan via Pakistan, Reuters quoted Minister for Science and Technology...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the opening of an annual Russian air show as a guest of President Vladimir Putin and expressed interest in purchasing the latest Russian fighter...

The pound edged higher on Tuesday as Jeremy Corbyn agreed to back a group of MPs in their attempts to halt a no-deal Brexit.

One of Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers told a judge that an expert hired by the family says injuries to his neck were more consistent with homicide than suicide.

One of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers says the late US financier was a “coward”, and she feels “very angry and sad” that he killed himself before going to trial.

Fires across the Brazilian Amazon have sparked an international outcry for preservation of the world's largest rainforest.

US national security adviser John Bolton flew into Kiev on Tuesday for talks with Ukraine's new authorities and touted a possible meeting between presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump, Reuters...

Netflix will give The Irishman an exclusive release for about four weeks, providing cinemas most of November to play Martin Scorsese's big-budget crime epic before it lands on the streaming...

Sheep have been let loose to graze on London's Hampstead Heath for the first time since the 1950s in a bid to keep vegetation in check in an environmentally-friendly way.

A seven-year-old Bolton Wanderers fan joined fan efforts to clean up the stadium of rivals Bury as both teams faced possible financial collapse.

Philip Morris International (PMI) has confirmed it is in merger talks with rival Altria over a deal to bring together two of the world's biggest tobacco firms.

A baby girl has been born to a brain-dead woman kept on life support for nearly three months to allow her pregnancy to go ahead, a clinic in the Czech...

A rare baby black wildebeest has been born at Newquay Zoo.

Rapper Meek Mill has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour gun charge to resolve a case that has kept him on probation for most of his adult life.

At least 40 Europe-bound migrants were missing and feared drowned after the boat they were travelling in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the coast guard and the UN...

The Russian Justice Ministry will decide within three months whether to appeal the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that Moscow should pay €34,000 ($37,700) to the...

Partners at accountancy giant Deloitte are set for a pay hike this year, despite heavy scrutiny over the quality of its audit work.

The Kurdish YPG forces and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are set to withdraw from a 5-14km wide strip along the border with Turkey, Reuters quoted SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said he will only accept an offer of international aid to fight Amazon fires if French leader Emmanuel Macron retracts comments that he finds offensive.

Orangutans can control their voice in a similar way to humans, with new research suggesting they may hold the key to how human speech evolved.

NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland customers are unable to access the banks' websites and online banking login pages following an outage.

A maternity brand which received a global bump from the so-called “Kate effect” when it was worn by the Duchess of Cambridge has warned that a no-deal Brexit threatens its...

Berlin's zoo has released a few seconds of footage from an ultrasound scan of its six-year-old panda Meng Meng, confirming a pregnancy.

Prince's estate will take over management of the late rock star's studio complex near Minneapolis.

President Donald Trump says his Doral golf resort in Miami is the ideal place for the next G7 Summit, sparking a debate on ethics.

A Russian sports presenter has offered a lesson in perseverance after he completed a live television report despite being hosed by a water sprinkler.

Talks between Italy's ruling 5-Star Movement and the opposition Democratic Party (PD) to form a new government are at risk of failure over who should became the next interior minister,...

Weak rainfall is unlikely to extinguish a record number of fires raging in Brazil's Amazon anytime soon, with pockets of precipitation through Sept. 10 expected to bring only isolated relief,...

A man who had his truck stolen in Washington, United States, was found to have been in the area because he was stealing items at a business across the street.

A 19-year-old British woman pleaded not guilty in a Cyprus court to a public mischief charge for making what prosecutors say was a false claim that she was raped by...

China will stage military exercises in the East China Sea near Taiwan starting on Tuesday, AFP reports. This will be the third set of drills in a month and comes...

China will stage military exercises in the East China Sea near Taiwan starting on Tuesday, AFP reports. This will be the third set of drills in a month and comes...

Topshop owner Arcadia will press ahead with store closures and rent cuts after two US landlords withdrew their opposition to the plans.

A 19-year-old British woman has pleaded not guilty in a Cyprus court to a public mischief charge for making what prosecutors say was a false claim that she was raped...

Two teenage girls have been praised by emergency services after using a lilo to rescue a man and child in water off the north east coast of Scotland.

Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to do everything necessary to prevent Britain leaving the European Union without a divorce deal as he prepared to meet senior lawmakers...

Attorneys general for 19 states and the District of Columbia sued President Donald Trump's administration on Monday to block a sweeping new rule to indefinitely detain migrant families seeking to...

U.S. prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Pennsylvania man accused of bursting into a Pittsburgh synagogue last year with a semi-automatic rifle and shooting 11 people to death,...

Thailand's prime minister and his cabinet failed to recite the full oath of allegiance when they were sworn in before the king last month, thus breaching the constitution, the Office...