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European leaders on Friday threatened to tear up a trade deal with South America, reflecting growing international anger at Brazil as a record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest...

US president Donald Trump is set to confront the consequences of his preference for going it alone in an interconnected world as he heads into a summit of global economic...

An employee at the British Consulate in Hong Kong who was detained on the mainland has been released, Chinese police have said.

Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro has authorised the use of the military to battle the huge blazes sweeping parts of the Amazon while thousands took to the streets to protest his...

Illinois health officials said yesterday that a patient who contracted a serious lung disease after vaping has died, which could make it the first death in the United States linked...

Thousands of chanting Hong Kong protesters joined peaceful "Baltic Chain" links of hands yesterday, with almost three months of anti-government demonstrations showing no sign of let-up across the Chinese-ruled territory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday ordered a like-for-like response to a recent US missile test, which he said showed Washington aimed to deploy previously banned missiles around the world.

A school in the United States has spent $48m (€43m) redesigning its buildings with curved corridors, hiding places, and cement barriers in a bid to thwart mass shooters.

US President Donald Trump has ordered American companies to exit China after Beijing unveiled retaliatory tariffs on $75bn (€67.3bn) in US goods, throwing a new twist into the bitter trade...

This weekend's G7 summit will produce no joint communiqué amid deepening divisions between the world's seven richest nations over everything from Brexit to trade, climate change, and how to deal...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has told Russia's Vladimir Putin that Syrian army attacks in north-west Syria are causing a humanitarian crisis and threaten Turkey's national security.

The American billionaire David Koch has died aged 79.

This weekend's G7 summit will produce no joint communiqué amid deepening divisions between the world's seven richest nations over everything from Brexit to trade, climate change, and how to deal...

The man who fatally stabbed a former Iowa State University golfer from Spain while she was playing a round near the school was sentenced yesterday to life in prison without...

North Korea has fired two unidentified projectiles off its east coast, South Korea's military said.

The Amazon needs better management to end the "ecocide" that is going on in the rainforest, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday ahead of a G7 summit at the...

Health officials say an Illinois patient who contracted lung disease after vaping has died and that they consider it the first death in the United States linked to the smoking...

President Donald Trump says products coming from China that were to be hit with a 10% tariff on September 1 will now face a 15% levy.

A video appearing to show a Tesla driver asleep while his vehicle drove on auto-pilot has prompted criticism online.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed radiation therapy for a tumour on her pancreas – and there is no evidence of the disease remaining.

DENMARK'S prime minister has had a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump, who earlier this week scrapped a visit to the country by saying Mette Frederiksen was "nasty" when...

An enormous cat looking for a new home has become such a big internet star that he crashed the website of the animal shelter where he lives.

Six European Union countries have agreed to take in the 356 migrants stranded at sea for two weeks aboard the ‘Ocean Viking' rescue vessel. The move could end the latest...

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had a “constructive conversation” with US President Donald Trump on Thursday, discussing cooperation on security policy, according to Ritzau Danish news agency. “The leaders among...

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has said he might send the military to battle the massive blazes engulfing the Amazon amid an international outcry.

China said on Friday it will impose retaliatory tariffs against about $75 billion worth of U.S. goods, putting as much as an extra 10pc on top of existing rates in...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday that suggestions by French President Emmanuel Macron about defusing the crisis over Tehran's nuclear drive went in the right direction, while...

The man who fatally stabbed a golfer from Spain while she was playing a round near the school has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother Charles was both celebrated and demonised for transforming American politics by pouring their riches into conservative causes, has died aged...

The London markets closed lower on a hectic day after tweets from Donald Trump warning China of trade retaliation more than counteracted positive comments from the Federal Reserve chairman.

Wildlife experts and veterinarians have said there is hope to prevent the extinction of the northern white rhino because they successfully extracted eggs from the last two remaining females of...

A model builder at Legoland has created a brick homage to Manchester Pride ahead of the LGBTQ+ celebration over the weekend.

The Syrian military announced on Friday the plans to advance further north after the liberation of the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib and a number of other settlements in...

Russia's first floating nuclear power plant has set sail to its destination on the nation's Arctic coast, a project that environmentalists have criticised as unsafe.

An eight-year-old boy got a stern talking-to earlier this week when he took his mother's Volkswagen for a joyride on the German motorway, but after pulling the stunt again, hitting...

As global concerns rise over raging fires in the Amazon, Brazil's government has complained that it is being targeted in smear campaign by critics who contend President Jair Bolsonaro is...

Denmark's prime minister has had a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump, who earlier this week scrapped a visit to the country by saying Mette Frederiksen was “nasty” when...

A judge has named a special prosecutor to look into why state prosecutors abruptly dropped charges against actor Jussie Smollett that accused him of staging a racist, anti-gay attack against...

Security is getting tighter in the southern French beach resort of Biarritz ahead of the G7 leaders' summit beginning this weekend.

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday urged nations in Asia to stand up for their “independence and sovereignty,” with tensions high in the disputed South China Sea. The comments...