Pakistan has decided to downgrade diplomatic ties with India and suspend bilateral trade in response to New Delhi's decision to reduce the special status of Kashmir, a Himalayan region claimed...
August 7, 2019
The new boss of Eat has said the next year will be “business as usual” while the high street food chain prepares to be gobbled up by rival Pret a...
August 7, 2019
A US woman who said she was a 16-year-old sex-trafficking victim when she killed a man in 2004 has been released from prison after being granted clemency.
August 7, 2019
Fifteen of the UK's finest felines have been announced as finalists in the National Cat Awards.
August 7, 2019
Hundreds of poor migrant workers have begun fleeing Kashmir to return to their villages in northern and eastern India after a complete security lockdown was imposed in the disputed Himalayan...
August 7, 2019
Diageo, the world's biggest spirits firm, has moved further into non-alcoholic drinks after securing a majority stake in “game-changing” alcohol-free “spirit” Seedlip.
August 7, 2019
A canary found flying loose in a Plymouth park has been nicknamed after new Prime Minister Boris Johnson due to his fluffy yellow feathers.
August 7, 2019
A canary found flying loose in a Plymouth park has been nicknamed after new Prime Minister Boris Johnson due to his fluffy “golden hair”.
August 7, 2019
Pensions buyout specialist Phoenix has revealed around £32 million of its client money is trapped in Neil Woodford's suspended fund.
August 7, 2019
About 200 people have been evacuated after a landslide cascaded through an Italian mountain town, overturning cars in its path, firefighters said.
August 7, 2019
Recruitment firm Page Group has reported higher revenue and profit for the first half, despite Brexit uncertainty holding both employers and candidates back from making big decisions.
August 7, 2019
Legal & General has seen half-year profits soar past £1 billion as it was boosted by a bumper period for pension policies.
August 7, 2019
Standard Life Aberdeen's assets rose in the first half, but bulky outflows weighed on profits.
August 7, 2019
Energy giant E.on has blamed the energy price cap for sending UK retail earnings crashing 78%, as it also lost more customers.
August 7, 2019
Malaysian police are not ruling out a possible “criminal element” in the search for a missing London teenager after fingerprints were found in the forest resort where she disappeared.
August 7, 2019
A lawyer representing a 19-year-old British woman who faces a public nuisance charge for falsely accusing 12 Israelis of rape has withdrawn from the case because of a “serious disagreement”...
August 7, 2019
The head of China's cabinet office responsible for Hong Kong has said the territory is facing its “most severe situation” since the handover from British rule in 1997.
August 7, 2019
Lawyers for a man charged with killing two Southern California women and trying to kill a third will make their last effort to convince a jury that the case against...
August 7, 2019
Frantic tourists and locals scrambled for cover in New York as the loud noise of a motorcycle backfiring sparked panic in the landmark Times Square.
August 7, 2019
Paddy Power owner Flutter blamed stricter regulations as it reported a dip in profits for the first half of the year, but reiterated its guidance for annual results.
August 7, 2019
US president Donald Trump is set to visit the city of Dayton in Ohio, days after nine people were killed there in a mass shooting.
August 7, 2019
Gunmen have raided the federal mint's headquarters in Mexico City and looted valuable items from a vault, authorities said.
August 7, 2019
Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature, has died at the age of 88.
August 7, 2019
North Korea has fired missiles for the fourth time in less than two weeks, South Korea said yesterday.
August 7, 2019
War with Iran is the mother of all wars, President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech yesterday.
August 7, 2019
The family of a teenager who disappeared from a nature resort in Malaysia believe she has been abducted, despite police insisting there is no sign of foul play.
August 7, 2019
Protesters in Hong Kong must not "play with fire" and mistake Beijing's restraint for weakness, China said yesterday in its sharpest rebuke yet of the "criminals" behind demonstrations in the...
August 7, 2019
Joe Biden maintained his lead for the Democratic presidential nomination as minorities gravitated toward the former vice president and his top rival, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, in search of...
August 7, 2019
A Brazilian drug dealer who tried to escape prison dressed as his daughter has been found dead in his cell.
August 7, 2019
Pakistan's military will "go to any extent" to support Kashmiris, the army chief has said, while President Imran Khan predicted that there would be new suicide bombings in Indian-administered Kashmir...
August 7, 2019
A man who travelled from Australia to Ireland to scatter his emigrant parents' remains has had their ashes lost in transit by Aer Lingus.
August 7, 2019
A millionaire charged with strangling his wife in California has been captured after being on the run for the past four years, authorities have said.
