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 ...
Ethics committee raises alarm over ‘predictive policing’ tool
A computer tool used by police to predict which people are likely to reoffend has come...
Notre-Dame fire: Millions pledged to rebuild cathedral
Hundreds of millions of euros have been pledged to help rebuild Notre-Dame after a devasta...
Sleep myths ‘damaging your health’
Widely held myths about sleep are damaging our health and our mood, as well as shortening o...
Nottingham Prison inmate cuts prison officer’s throat
A prison officer had his throat cut by an inmate at HMP Nottingham, the Ministry of Justic...
Sudan crisis: Military council arrests former government members
Sudan's transitional military council has arrested members of the former government and pro...
Strictly Come Dancing: Darcey Bussell quits as judge
Dame Darcey Bussell is to step down from her role as a judge on BBC One's Strictly Come...
India election 2019: Voting to begin in world’s largest election
Indians will head to the polls on Thursday to vote in the first phase of a general electio...
Rory McIlroy’s big-picture mentality could end in a Masters high-five
Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods. Rory McIlroy? In his wi...
Bomb kills three US soldiers in Afghanistan
Three US service members and one contractor have been killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanis...
Brexit: I had no choice but to approach Labour – May
Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted she had to reach out to Labour in a bid to deliver...
Tory leadership: Johnson says party on ‘final warning’
BBC News : Boris Johnson, the front-runner in the Tory leadership race, has said the pa...
Webb rips Clinton’s State record as he mulls independent White H...
Former Democratic presidential candidate Jim Webb is now considering an independent candidac...
Change the way you eat in 2016
“Genes load the gun, the environment pulls the trigger.” Experts use this line to refere...
Rare painting by Dutch Renaissance artist Hieronymus Bosch found in Kansas
A rare 500-year-old work by Dutch Renaissance artist Hieronymus Bosch, previously attributed to the painter’s workshop, has been id...
Riots over rising fuel costs plunge Paris into chaos as police struggle to maintain order
More than 3000 police have flooded onto the streets of Paris as protests in the French capital turned violent. Police and gendarme...
Uber Drivers and Others in the Gig Economy Take a Stand
Last September, Dallas-area drivers for UberBlack, the company’s high-end car service, received an email informing them that they w...
Bangladesh fire: Blaze kills dozens in Dhaka historic district
A fast-moving fire swept through a historic district of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, killing at least 78 people, officials say. ...
China sentences second Canadian to death
A court in China has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death for producing and trafficking methamphetamine. Fan Wei is the second ...
Extinction looms for Charles Darwin’s finches, and humans are to blame
Charles Darwin's finches of the Galapagos Islands—renowned as a poster child for speciation (that's "the process by which new speci...
Princess Arwa Al Qassimi and Life Resolve scholarship for graduation students
High school hockey player nets winning goal after dad loses cancer battle
Media’s Bernie boost: Fear of Sanders eased by fading fear of terror