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Facebook has banned extremists including Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for violating its policy on hate and violence.

Australian officials have shared images of a three-eyed snake found near a road.

Leading Democrat Nancy Pelosi has accused attorney general William Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congress.

A girl with Down syndrome has received an invitation from Harry Kane to be a Tottenham mascot after a video of her dancing was targeted by online trolls.

PepsiCo Inc will withdraw its lawsuits against a number of Indian potato farmers accused of infringing its patent, the company said on Thursday.

India has accelerated efforts to evacuate more than a million people along its northeast coastline as a cyclone intensifies ahead of landfall on Friday, with thousand of villagers piling household...

SpaceX has confirmed its crew capsule was destroyed in ground testing two weeks ago.

A Welsh council has been criticised after placing double yellow lines around parked cars.

The FTSE 100 ended in the red on Thursday following a busy day of corporate reporting that saw big hitters Lloyds and Royal Dutch Shell end at opposite ends of...

The largest shareholder of property developer Shaftesbury has threatened to take the company to court over an ongoing dispute.

Two senior MPs have weighed into the row over pensions at Lloyds Banking Group ahead of the lender's annual meeting, where the size of chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio's pay packet...

US attorney general William Barr has skipped a House Judiciary Committee hearing on special counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia report.

Thousands of young Jews from around the world joined Holocaust survivors and politicians for an annual remembrance march in southern Poland.

A grey seal who was severely injured by a plastic ring frisbee stuck around her neck has become the second of her kind to be released back into the sea...

A woman has inspired the internet with her first paintings, a hobby she took up after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Senator Michael Bennet has jumped into the packed Democratic presidential primary, announcing a 2020 campaign that stalled while he was treated for prostate cancer.

Gary Lineker has responded to criticism of his frenzied celebrations of Lionel Messi's stunning free-kick goal against Liverpool, saying he was simply “celebrating greatness”.

Lionel Messi scored a sublime free-kick to help Barcelona take a 3-0 lead from the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Liverpool at the Nou Camp.

A beluga whale found in Arctic Norway wearing a harness that suggests links to Russia appears to be enjoying staying near humans.

Barclays has staved off a challenge mounted by an activist investor at its annual meeting, but got a bloody nose from shareholders over its executive pay.

Barclays has scored a victory against activist investor Edward Bramson, who has conceded defeat in his attempt to gain a seat on the British bank's board.

A father's mammoth game of “pinch-punch” with his daughter reached new heights when he enlisted the help of an airline to catch her out.

Thursday's local elections saw both humans and their pets going to the polls.

More than 800,000 people have been evacuated along India's eastern coast as authorities braced for a cyclone moving through the Bay of Bengal that is forecast to bring “extremely severe”...

Ikea has appointed the third head of its UK and Ireland business in under two years, as the flatpack furniture store targets city centres.

Shares in Metro Bank tanked on Thursday after the lender revealed the impact of a major accounting error and subsequent investor cash call in what it described as a “challenging”...

Israel came to a standstill on Thursday morning with a two-minute siren wailing across the country in remembrance of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Gambling giant Paddy Power Betfair has seen revenues jump by almost a fifth, on the back of soaring online gaming growth.

Venezuelans heeded opposition leader Juan Guaido's call to take to the streets on Wednesday in a bid to force President Nicolas Maduro from power, but there was little concrete sign...

Wagamama and Frankie & Benny's owner The Restaurant Group has named former HBOS boss Andy Hornby as its new chief executive.

A shocked college community has paid tribute to a “hero” student who died tackling a gunman at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

The wettest winter in a generation has revived Iraq's famous rivers and filled its lakes, bringing welcome relief to a country facing severe water challenges in the era of climate...

Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has appointed his consort as the country's queen ahead of his official coronation on Saturday.

Julian Assange has been jailed for 50 weeks for breaching his bail conditions after going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London while he was wanted over allegations of...

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte lifted a campus lockdown yesterday, a day after a gunman killed two people and wounded four on the school's last day of classes...

A woman has been sentenced to death by lethal injection in Georgia for starving her stepdaughter to death.

A group of Roman Catholic priests, academics and intellectuals have issued an open letter to bishops asking them to declare Pope Francis a heretic, in the latest broadside by ultra-conservatives...

French police fired tear gas to push back masked demonstrators in central Paris yesterday as thousands of people used an annual May Day rally to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's...

Caster Semenya has lost her appeal against the IAAF's testosterone regulations after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled in the governing body's favour.

Donald Trump's attorney general yesterday denied misleading the public over special counsel Robert Mueller's report into Russian election meddling, as a rift between the pair was laid bare.