Four tigers have mauled to death their tamer in southern Italy, fuelling calls for a ban on the use of animals in circuses as parliament debates the issue.
July 6, 2019
A Nigerian court has ordered the imminent seizure of $40m (€35.6m) worth of jewellery and a customised gold iPhone belonging to former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, the country's anti-graft agency...
July 6, 2019
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander threatened yesterday to seize a British ship in retaliation for the capture of an Iranian supertanker by Royal Marines in Gibraltar.
July 6, 2019
A British court has jailed eight leaders of a trafficking ring that enslaved hundreds of Polish victims in the largest modern slavery prosecution of its kind.
July 6, 2019
China's Defence Ministry yesterday denied US accusations that the Chinese military had recently carried out missile tests in the disputed South China Sea, saying instead that it had held routine...
July 6, 2019
The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant a trillion or more trees, according to a study.
July 5, 2019
The US Justice Department has said it will continue to search for legal grounds to force the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
July 5, 2019
The man that former "House of Cards" star Kevin Spacey is accused by prosecutors of sexually assaulting in Massachusetts three years ago has dropped a civil lawsuit he filed against...
July 5, 2019
Dozens of half-naked protestors have laid bare in a Pamplona square in a call to end the annual Running of the Bulls.
July 5, 2019
Police and bystanders teamed up to rescue a 6-foot-long snake that had wrapped itself around the engine block of a car in Connecticut.
July 5, 2019
A teenager from Texas has been questioned by police after footage went viral of her taking a tub of ice cream and licking it, before returning it to a Walmart...
July 5, 2019
Iraq on Friday celebrated the Unesco World Heritage Committee's decision to name the historic city of Babylon a World Heritage Site.
July 5, 2019
Iraq is celebrating the Unesco World Heritage Committee's decision to name the historic city of Babylon a world heritage site in a vote in Azerbaijan.
July 5, 2019
Strong jobs data from the US weighed on the pound on Friday, while London's top-flight shares ended the week in the red.
July 5, 2019
The US state of Alaska's largest city and two other state locations reached record high temperatures on Independence Day.
July 5, 2019
A machete-wielding robber was foiled by a man who fought him off with a bar stool and a pot plant.
July 5, 2019
A bomb went off in a car near Turkey's border with Syria on Friday, killing two Syrians who were inside the vehicle, Turkey's interior minister said.
July 5, 2019
A police force is hoping to help cut the number of children who die in hot cars by giving out free reminders for parents to keep in their vehicles.
July 5, 2019
A vigorous aftershock sequence has followed the strongest earthquake to hit southern California in 20 years.
July 5, 2019
The largest-ever UK modern slavery ring, which forced more than 400 people to work for a pittance while their criminal masters earned £2m (€2.2m), has been smashed.
July 5, 2019
Superdry's profits are expected to have halved when it reports full-year figures on Wednesday, as a new management team pushes ahead with a turnaround plan for the ailing brand.
July 5, 2019
A young man who said Kevin Spacey groped him in a Nantucket bar in 2016 has dropped his lawsuit against the Oscar-winning actor.
July 5, 2019
A young man who says Kevin Spacey groped him in a Nantucket bar in 2016 has dropped his lawsuit against the Oscar-winning actor, his lawyer has said.
July 5, 2019
Democratic 2020 hopeful Elizabeth Warren has said that, if elected president, she would sign executive orders aimed at addressing the wage and employment leadership gap for “women of colour”.
July 5, 2019
Two new brush fires have broken out on the Greek island of Evia, forcing the evacuation of four villages, authorities have said.
July 5, 2019
Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden has said it would be “great” to have a female vice president.
July 5, 2019
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has one of the best known names in world football – but it seems his own team haven't quite got to grips with how to spell it.
July 5, 2019
The world's first football kit made from bamboo has been unveiled by a Gloucestershire sports club.
July 5, 2019
The boss of German car giant BMW has said he will quit the business during a tough time for the industry with falling profits and the rise in electric car...
July 5, 2019
A Swedish court has ordered US rapper ASAP Rocky to spend two weeks in pre-trial detention while police investigate a fight in central Stockholm.
July 5, 2019
Donald Trump has said the US army “took over airports” during the Revolutionary War – a conflict which was fought over a century before the invention of the aeroplane.
