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Throughout its 500-year relationship with the West, Beijing has sought to profit from its wealth without truly embracing its ideals and norms. That long-standing ambivalence is playing out in trade...

The Italian interior ministry has vowed to press ahead with a new decree closing Italian ports to aid groups that rescue migrants, even after UN human rights investigators said it...

A crowdfunding page to raise money for a model railway exhibition completely trashed by vandals has gained more than £30,000 in donations.

President Donald Trump has threatened Iran with destruction if it seeks a fight with the US.

A billionaire technology investor has stunned graduates at a US college by announcing he will pay off all their student loans estimated at 40 million dollars (£31m).

A billionaire technology investor has stunned graduates at a US college by announcing he will pay off all their student loans estimated at 40 million dollars (£31m).

American sanctions on oil-rich Venezuela appear to be taking hold, resulting in mile-long queues for fuel in the South American nation's second largest city, Maracaibo.

One person has died and two more have been injured after a house exploded in southern Indiana, authorities in the US have said.

Conservative Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz yesterday pulled the plug on his coalition with the far-right Freedom Party after a damaging video prompted its leader to step down as vice chancellor.

Bob Hawke, the former Prime Minister of Australia who died last Thursday aged 89, fought his way up the beer and smoke ladder of Australian union politics to the top...

Jean Vanier, who has died aged 90, was the founder and director of the L'Arche Community, which achieved international fame and admiration for its attitude to those with learning disabilities.

Lt Col Richard Cole, who has died aged 103, was the last survivor of the 80 US airmen known as the "Doolittle Raiders" who carried out the first air attack...

Justin Trudeau's government has been accused of trying to buy media support ahead of crucial elections by launching a $600m taxpayer-funded bailout for Canadian newspapers.

The United Nations refugee agency said it was "deeply saddened" by the targeting of civilians in recent airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition last week, which left at least six dead...

US diplomats have warned that commercial airliners flying over the Persian Gulf face a risk of being "misidentified" amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran.

US President Donald Trump has announced a delay in imposing tariffs on imported vehicles and parts from the European Union, Japan and other nations for 180 days to pursue negotiations,...

Goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne deployed unusual tactics to help his Sydney FC side secure the Hyundai A-League Championship on penalties against Perth Glory.

I must have been six or seven when I first heard Doris Day singing Que Sera, Sera. And just like Doris in the song, I asked my mother... well, what...

I must have been six or seven when I first heard Doris Day singing Que Sera, Sera. And just like Doris in the song, I asked my mother... well, what...

An explosion targeting a tourist bus injured at least 12 people on Sunday, mostly South African tourists, near a new museum being built close to the Giza pyramids in Egypt,...

American president Donald Trump is imploring anti-abortion activists to stay united for the 2020 election, as Alabama's restrictive new abortion law stirs divisions on the right.

The US navy says it has conducted exercises in the Arabian Sea with an aircraft carrier strike group ordered to the Persian Gulf to counter an alleged, unspecified threat from...

Swiss voters have approved a measure to tighten the country's gun laws, bringing it in line with many of its European partners, according to media reports.

A Chicago woman has been charged with murder after allegedly strangling a pregnant teenager and cutting the baby from her womb.

Former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic joked it was “bad luck for Tim, good luck for me” that Wimbledon had no roof in 2001.

A roadside bomb has hit a tourist bus near the Giza Pyramids, Egyptian officials have said.

TÁNAISTE Simon Coveney has insisted there's “no row” over the location of a meeting between Donald Trump and Leo Varadkar during an expected visit by the US President to Ireland...

Voting in India's national election has ended, with exit polls predicting prime minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party and its allies will win the right to govern for another five...

A roadside bomb has hit a tourist bus near the Giza Pyramids, Egyptian officials have said.

Jeremy Corbyn has insisted a second Brexit referendum would not be "disastrous", but suggested that the British Parliament must offer something to enable such a vote.

Austria's president has said that the first few days of September would be the best time to hold an early election after a covert video scandal shook up the country's...

Sudan's ruling military council was meeting with protesters to discuss the country's political transition after talks were halted for three days while roads were cleared outside a sit-in in the...

Two young girls having a sleepover fought off a naked man who allegedly broke into their California home and sexually assaulted them.

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Indian climbers who died on the world's third tallest peak last week and flown them to Nepal's capital.

Austria's chancellor and president will discuss a date on Sunday for an early parliamentary election and the makeup of a caretaker government, after a video sting brought down the leader...

Gay couples in Taiwan plan a mass wedding registration after politicians voted to legalise same-sex marriage.

In its escalating confrontation with Iran, the US is making the same mistake it has made again and again since the fall of the Shah 40 years ago: it is...

A Saudi diplomat says the kingdom does not want war, but will defend itself, amid a recent spike in tensions with Iran.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has vowed to get straight back to work after a shock general election victory, which delivered the country three more years of conservative government.

Fast-growing female health startup Elvie has said it would consider quitting the UK in the event of a damaging Brexit in the latest stark warning from London's tech sector.