Cayman Islands Governor Anwar Choudhury will not be returning to the Cayman Islands but will be re-posted to London, according to an extremely brief statement...

Two people were hospitalised after a car reportedly hit pedestrians near a Muslim community centre in northwest London overnight in an incident police said was...

The city of Los Angeles, a leading centre of the world's fashion industry, moved on Tuesday (Sept 18) towards becoming the largest US metropolis to...

The Australian government says it will introduce stricter criminal penalties in response to a fruit contamination scare that has alarmed the country. Authorities are investigating...

Thousands of Italians are flocking to illegal free public screenings of a new film about a young man's 2009 death in custody, a potent symbol...

US President Donald Trump has said he does not "have an attorney general" in his fiercest attack yet on Jeff Sessions.In an interview with Hill.TV,...

The US withdrawal from the nuclear deal struck between Iran and major powers is "doomed" to seriously affect peace and security in the Middle East,...

Australian police say sewing needles have been found hidden in an apple and a banana, amid a nationwide scare that has tormented the strawberry industry.Since...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an Israeli diplomatic source said on Tuesday, following the downing of...

Nigeria has declared a national disaster after severe flooding left about 100 people dead across 10 states, the country's main relief agency said on Tuesday.Heavy...

Six million children worldwide died last year from preventable diseases and other complications, which was about half the number of similar deaths in 2000 when...

Germany on Monday rolled out the world's first hydrogen-powered train, signaling the start of a push to challenge the might of polluting diesel trains with...

British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned that her Brexit plan is the only alternative to crashing out of the European Union without agreement, in...

The prognosis for President Donald Trump and his party was grim. In a post-Labor Day briefing at the White House, a top Republican pollster told...

The River Safari's giant panda couple Kai Kai and Jia Jia celebrated hitting the double-digits on Friday with bamboo cakes, Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) said...

Australia has ordered an investigation into the discovery of sewing needles hidden in strawberries, amid growing alarm over scares across the country. Contaminated punnets have...

Spain's prime minister on Sunday defended his government's controversial decision to go ahead with the delivery of 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia, saying it...

Residents of a French town said their neighborhoods have become infested with moths, and one man captured video to prove it. Gaelle Lecompte captured video this...

Several employees of a Cuban supermarket have been fired for selling 15,000 apples to a single customer in a country regularly plagued by food shortages. State...

A man in his 20s has died after being injured in a suspected shark attack in the US state of Massachusetts. The incident happened at...

The US Coast Guard has removed a team member from duty after he was accused of making a "white power" sign on air. The unidentified...

The popular US defense secretary Jim Mattis could be out of a job after the mid-term elections as President Donald Trump is said to be...

Twelve music students at a college in Seoul binged on pizza and hamburgers five times a day to deliberately gain weight and avoid military service,...

Efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are being complicated by the geographical spread and growing suspicion towards...

A 19th century statue near San Francisco's City Hall that some said is racist and demeaning to indigenous people was removed early Friday.A group of...

President Donald Trump lashed out at former secretary of state John Kerry for his meetings with Iran's foreign minister after the Obama-appointee had left office."John...

Britain's former Foreign Minister Boris Johnson has said he supports Prime Minister Theresa May and his opposition was not to her but to her proposals...

China is not mistreating Muslims in Xinjiang province but is putting some people through training courses to avoid extremism spreading, unlike Europe, which had failed...

A zoo in Colombia is celebrating the birth of a baby spider monkey, a rare species in danger of extinction.The monkey was born on Sunday...

Indian-American Bimal Patel has been nominated to a key administrative position in the Treasury Department by US President Donald Trump.Mr Patel, from Georgia, has been...

A Colombian drug kingpin who participated in a violent ring that used planes, speedboats and submarines to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars in cocaine...

Weather forecasters warn of the risk of life-threatening flash flooding in parts of North and South Carolina, and Virginia, from storm Florence.It has been downgraded...

The Trump administration called for tougher immigration laws Wednesday after fresh data indicated more migrant families than ever are attempting to cross the Mexican border...

At least 20 people have been killed in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region after a hill collapsed on to their village following heavy rain, a rebel...

The United States may have reclaimed the title of the world's biggest oil producer sooner than expected.The U.S. Energy Information Administration said Wednesday that, based...

Pope Francis has authorised an investigation into possible financial irregularities in the world-renowned Sistine Chapel Choir, the Vatican said on Wednesday.The Vatican issued a statement...

Authorities say a gunman in California has killed five people, including his wife, before turning the gun on himself as a sheriff's deputy closed in.Kern...

Canadian negotiators are traveling to brief Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in person on the state of negotiations with the United States on a deal that...

Brazil's Workers' Party on Tuesday replaced jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as its candidate for October's general election, clarifying one of the...

President Donald Trump has been criticised for hailing the US response to the deadly Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year as "tremendous".The mayor of...

A proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic Ocean has been defeated at an International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Brazil.Japan and...

About a million people have taken to the streets of Barcelona to mark Catalonia's "National Day" and show continued support for independence.The annual celebration is...

The far-right candidate in Brazil's presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, is to have more major surgery after he was stabbed during a campaign rally on Thursday.His...

North Korea's Kim Jong-un has written to US President Donald Trump asking for a follow-up to their historic summit, the White House says.The US says...

Police in Sudan have rescued nearly 100 people, 85 of them minors, after breaking up a human trafficking network in the northeast African country last...

American teenagers are starting to prefer communicating via text instead of meeting face-to-face, according to a study published Monday by the independent organization Common Sense...

A gas depot exploded in central Nigeria, killing 18 people and leaving some burned beyond recognition, a witness said Monday.More than 40 other people had...

Pro- and anti-whaling nations are set for a showdown when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meets in Brazil from Monday as Japan leads an assault...

An 83-year-old Japanese woman has been announced by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest professional club DJ. Sumiko Iwamura, 83, aka DJ Sumirock, said...

A Chinese village was left with a giant mass of soap suds when a person cleaning plastic bottles let too much soap go down a...