Belgium’s ex-King Albert II submits DNA in paternity case
BBC News : Former Belgian King Albert II has submitted a DNA sample to avoid fines of €5,000 (£4,370) a day over claims he fathered a love-child in the 1960s. The 84-year-old, who has been fighting the paternity claim of Belgian artist Delphine Boël, 51, for over a decade, provided a ...
China sentences second Canadian to death
A court in China has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death for producing and trafficking me...
Racism row over Trieste half-marathon
Organisers of the Trieste half-marathon have reversed a ban on professional African athlet...
Scottish independence: UK government ‘will not grant indyref2 consent’
Theresa May's deputy has said the Scottish Parliament will not be given the power to hold a...
Kim Jong-un arrives in Vladivostok by train for Putin summit
As Kim Jong-un arrived at the Vladivostok railway station on Wednesday, white-gloved atte...
Iran offers prisoner swap for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national being held in a Tehran jail o...
Sri Lanka attacks: British dad’s tribute to ‘amazing’ family
A British husband has paid tribute to his "wonderful" wife and their two "amazing" childre...
Sri Lanka attacks: Who are National Thowheed Jamath?
A previously little-known group called the National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) is being accused...
All the president’s men and women: how disobedient aides saved Trump
The myth of Donald Trump presents him as a man of authority, a leader loved and feared, a ...
Gray urges Toulouse to usurp Leinster in battle of Champions Cup royalty
In a battle between the two most successful sides in Champions Cup history Toulouse must no...
Ethics committee raises alarm over ‘predictive policing’ tool
A computer tool used by police to predict which people are likely to reoffend has come...
Munich rail stations reopen after terror alert prompts evacuations
Police in the German city of Munich reopened two train stations early Friday as authorities ...
Pope’s year-end message warns about ‘tyranny of evil’...
VATICAN CITY – In the final hours of 2015, Pope Francis is encouraging humanity to hang o...
Mariah Carey posts holiday swimsuit photo
The singing superstar has been spending the holidays with her four-year-old twins Moroccan a...
US and North Korea suffer communication breakdown
BBC News : Instead, the US and North Korea appear to be staring one another down, waiting for the other to blink or make a move....
‘Growing inequality threatens democracy’
Inequalities in pay and opportunities in the UK are becoming so extreme they are threatening democracy, an Institute for Fiscal St...
Saudi Arabia condemns US Senate ‘interference’
The Saudi foreign ministry described the move as "interference" based on "untrue allegations". Thursday's US resolutions are larg...
Sightsavers is an organization that aims at preventing avoidable blindness, and advocates for the social inclusion and equal treatmen...
Typhoon Mangkhut Slams Hong Kong and Southern China
HONG KONG — Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong and Macau on Sunday with 100 miles-per-hour wind gusts, drenching rains and 11-foot...
US shutdown: Trump renews national emergency threat over wall
US President Donald Trump has renewed a threat to declare a national emergency to fund the construction of a wall on the Mexican b...
Theresa May defeats Tory coup over Brexit deal but is left damaged
All the president’s men and women: how disobedient aides saved Trump
City’s ‘nitpicky’ fines for tree stumps, blinds trigger civil rights lawsuit
King says terror threat coming from mosques, calls for better surveillance
