The UK's construction output has plummeted at its steepest rate since 2009, as Brexit uncertainty and weaker demand hit all major areas of the industry.
July 2, 2019
Firefighters, soldiers and civil defence personnel are battling a large wildfire at an area used for military exercises in northern Germany after weeks of dry weather.
July 2, 2019
Brewing giant AB InBev has said it plans to raise up to 9.8 billion US dollars (£7.8 billion) from the listing of its Asian business, in what will be the...
July 2, 2019
Three men in Australia have been arrested over an Islamic State-inspired plot to attack a variety of Sydney targets including police and defence buildings, courts, churches and diplomatic missions, police...
July 2, 2019
Peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle has seen shares slump to record lows after a shock revenue warning as economic uncertainty hit demand for small business loans and sparked a lending crackdown.
July 2, 2019
China regarded the violent actions of some protesters in Hong Kong as an "undisguised challenge" to the one country, two systems formula under which the city is ruled, state television...
July 2, 2019
Rail app business Trainline reported a 20% jump in sales for the past three months in its first trading update since floating on the stock market last month.
July 2, 2019
The body of a suspected stowaway that fell from a jet hit the ground just a metre from a man sunbathing in his back garden in south London, a neighbour...
July 2, 2019
A woman who was prosecuted for trying to drown her baby son more than a decade ago has been accused of killing the now 12-year-old boy by drowning him, US...
July 2, 2019
Chinese state media has run footage of police in Hong Kong clearing protesters from the streets in a break with its silence in the last few days over pro-democracy demonstrations.
July 2, 2019
A man has suffered a puncture wound to his back and leg and stomach injuries in a suspected shark attack in Australia.
July 2, 2019
Heavy monsoon rains in western India have caused at least three walls to collapse on to huts and city shanties, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens of others.
July 2, 2019
Heavy rainfall in the western Indian city of Mumbai has caused a wall to collapse on to shanties, killing at least 15 people and injuring 66, as forecasters warned of...
July 2, 2019
Iran's foreign minister has seemingly expressed exasperation over a White House statement on his country's nuclear programme.
July 2, 2019
Federal officials investigating the crash of a small plane that killed 10 at a suburban Dallas airport say they have recovered the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder.
July 2, 2019
Iran announced yesterday it had amassed more low-enriched uranium than permitted under its 2015 deal with major powers, its first major step in violation of the deal since the United...
July 2, 2019
The German captain of a charity rescue ship, arrested for defying an Italian ban on docking with migrants, arrived in a Sicilian port yesterday for her first court appearance.
July 2, 2019
An errant missile struck Cyprus early yesterday, skimming the densely populated capital Nicosia and crashing on a mountainside in what authorities described as a spillover from strikes between Israel and...
July 2, 2019
A Moscow court jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for 10 days yesterday after finding him guilty of breaking the law when he took part in a street demonstration last...
July 2, 2019
Spraying graffiti and expletives on the walls, smashing glass windows and destroying furniture, hundreds of masked young protesters rampaged through the heart of Hong Kong's parliament in scenes of unprecedented...
July 2, 2019
Taliban fighters killed six people and wounded 105 by blowing up a truck, bombing the morning rush hour near an Afghan Defence Ministry compound.
July 2, 2019
Police and airline officials say a stowaway fell from the landing gear of a jet as it approached London's Heathrow Airport after a nine-hour flight from Nairobi.
July 2, 2019
The Vatican yesterday reaffirmed Catholic teaching that priests cannot reveal what they learn in confession, in an apparent response to moves in Australia and elsewhere to force them to do...
July 2, 2019
Last week, US president Donald Trump departed for the G20 summit by airing a flurry of grievances, ranging from the US-Japan security treaty to Chinese trading practices to Europe being...
July 2, 2019
A woman who was prosecuted in Montana for trying to drown her baby son more than a decade ago has been accused of killing the now 12-year-old boy by drowning...
July 1, 2019
A bear has been caught on camera drinking out of a family's backyard hummingbird feeder.
July 1, 2019
A rubbish truck fell into a sinkhole causing evacuations in the Italian city of Naples.
July 1, 2019
A Facebook mail processing warehouse has been evacuated as Silicon Valley officials try to determine what caused a bag of mail to test positive for the nerve agent sarin.
July 1, 2019
A storm that dumped more than 4ft of hail on parts of Guadalajara damaged hundreds of homes, according to officials in Mexico's second largest city.
July 1, 2019
Cancer Research UK has been criticised for a campaign which draws a parallel between smoking and obesity.
July 1, 2019
The amount of ice circling Antarctica is suddenly plunging from a record high to record lows, baffling scientists.
July 1, 2019
The body of a suspected stowaway believed to have fallen from a jet has been found in a south London garden.
July 1, 2019
Hundreds of protesters in Hong Kong swarmed into the legislature's main building, tearing down portraits of legislative leaders and spray-painting pro-democracy slogans on the walls of the main chamber as...
July 1, 2019
A man and his young daughter who drowned trying to cross into Texas have been laid to rest, a week after a heartbreaking image of their bodies floating in the...
July 1, 2019
Hundreds of protesters swarmed into the Hong Kong legislature's main building, tearing down portraits and spray-painting pro-democracy slogans in the main chamber as frustration over a lack of response to...
July 1, 2019
The New York Mets have apologised after featuring two living players in a tribute some of their dead stars.
July 1, 2019
Hundreds of protesters in Hong Kong swarmed into the legislature's main building, tearing down portraits of legislative leaders and spray-painting pro-democracy slogans on the walls of the main chamber as...
July 1, 2019
Rihanna took a little downtime to take in the cricket in County Durham.
