Malaysia's sports-loving Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah called for racial unity as he was installed as the country's 16th king under a unique rotating monarchy system.
July 30, 2019
The moment a road was washed away by powerful floods in Canada has been captured on video.
July 30, 2019
Household goods giant Reckitt Benckiser has slashed its full-year sales outlook amid a slowdown in demand for baby formula in China.
July 30, 2019
An alleged British fugitive was arrested in Bali with pornography and drugs, Indonesian authorities have said, after UK media reported that the man was selling explicit videos of himself online...
July 30, 2019
American rapper ASAP Rocky and two other men believed to be members of his entourage have gone on trial in Sweden in a high-profile legal case that has caught the...
July 30, 2019
A rare southern white rhino has been born at San Diego Zoo after it was conceived through artificial insemination.
July 30, 2019
Technology giant Sony has reported a 33% drop in its first-quarter profit as sales dipped in its electronics operations, including TV sets and camcorders.
July 30, 2019
Japanese video game maker Nintendo has reported its first-quarter profit dipped to about half of what it was a year ago despite improved sales as an unfavourable exchange rate eroded...
July 30, 2019
Angry Hong Kong commuters argued with protesters who blocked the doors on trains on Tuesday morning, preventing them from leaving stations.
July 30, 2019
The reappearance of a giant tribute to Benito Mussolini etched into a cliff above a village in Italy has sparked a political row over the enduring legacy of the wartime...
July 30, 2019
A Six-year-old boy was among the dead after a gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at Northern California's popular Gilroy Garlic Festival.
July 30, 2019
China yesterday repeated its support for Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam, calling on the city's people to oppose violence following another weekend of clashes between protesters and police.
July 30, 2019
New York State yesterday decriminalised recreational marijuana use, meaning possession of small amounts of the drug will be punished with fines rather than jail time, a step short of Governor...
July 30, 2019
Dominic Raab, the UK foreign secretary, has ruled out an exchange of seized oil tankers with Iran, insisting there can be "no quid pro quo" to end the stand-off.
July 30, 2019
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was yesterday discharged from a Moscow hospital, where he was being treated for an unexplained health problem, and returned to prison under guard, his doctor...
July 30, 2019
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has said that he believes US President Donald Trump "richly deserves impeachment".
July 30, 2019
Dan Coats, the US director of national intelligence, will leave his job next month, President Donald Trump has said, after a turbulent two years in which they were often at...
July 30, 2019
A hacker gained access to personal information from more than 100 million Capitol One credit applications in the US, the bank said as US federal authorities arrested a suspect in...
July 30, 2019
A jury has found that Katy Perry's 2013 hit Dark Horse improperly copied a 2009 Christian rap song, setting up arguments over how much the singer and other defendants will...
July 29, 2019
Lil Nas X's viral Old Town Road has broken the Billboard record set by Mariah Carey's One Sweet Day for most weeks at number one.
July 29, 2019
A small Pakistani military plane has crashed into a residential area near the garrison city of Rawalpindi before dawn, killing at least 12 people, including two pilots, officials said.
July 29, 2019
A small Pakistani military plane has crashed into a residential area near the garrison city of Rawalpindi, killing at least 17 people, most of them on the ground.
July 29, 2019
A small Pakistani military plane has crashed into a residential area near the garrison city of Rawalpindi, killing at least 18 people, most of them on the ground.
July 29, 2019
Amber Gill and Greg O'Shea have beaten favourites Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury to win Love Island 2019.
July 29, 2019
Texas man Jon Blaze proposed to his girlfriend Thao Nguyen after he spelt out the words “marry me” with a 15.7-mile bike route.
July 29, 2019
A gunman has killed three people at a popular food festival in California, including a six-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, and injured 12 others before police shot him dead,...
July 29, 2019
Police in Canada have urged residents in a remote northern town to stay inside and lock their doors as officers hunt for two teenagers sought over the killings of three...
July 29, 2019
Four male Parma wallabies, the smallest members of the kangaroo family, have settled at Newquay Zoo in Cornwall after travelling from Cotswold Wildlife Park in Burford, Oxfordshire.
July 29, 2019
PBS will air a documentary on EGOT winner Rita Moreno, the network has announced.
July 29, 2019
The FTSE 100 had a strong showing on what should have been a quiet day for the leading blue chip index.
July 29, 2019
Over 200 million trees were planted in one day by Ethiopia, who are attempting to plant four billion this summer.
July 29, 2019
At least 57 prisoners have been killed by other inmates during clashes between organised crime groups at Altamira prison in northern Brazil, according to officials.
July 29, 2019
Martin Scorsese's big-budget mafia epic The Irishman will premiere as the opening night film at the 57th New York Film Festival, Film At Lincoln Centre announced on Monday.
July 29, 2019
One of the two American teenagers being held in custody in Rome over the killing of a police officer has stated he stabbed the plainclothes officer because he feared he...
July 29, 2019
Patrice Evra may have called time on a glittering career in football but his star will surely continue to rise on social media.
July 29, 2019
President Donald Trump has lashed out at his critics and sought to deflect criticism of his incendiary tweets by labelling a leading black congressman as himself racist.
