Uber will not be granted a new licence to operate in London after repeated safety failures, Transport for London has said. Uber will however appeal and can continue to operate during that process. Uber...

Investigators have discovered 31 bodies hidden in clandestine graves outside Mexico‘s second-largest city, Guadalajara. Authorities in violence-torn Jalisco State Thursday said ten of the bodies...

A Japanese hotel is offering a room for just 100 yen or $1 per a night on the condition that guests that stay in that have to agree to livestream their stay on YouTube. The Asahi Ryokan in Fukuoka on...

Hundreds of Australian women left in debilitating pain by faulty trans-vaginal mesh devices have won a landmark case against multinational pharmaceutical manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson. The case was...

Austria’s Interior Ministry has announced that the house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station. The announcement on Tuesday follows years of legal wrangling as the Austrian ...

An assailant has stabbed the son of former German president Richard von Weizsaecker to death in an attack at a hospital in Berlin. The attack also left one other person seriously injured. The German Police...

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday night clashed over which of them was best placed to safeguard the National Health Service (NHS) if they win the general election in Britain. In a testy live...

The Israeli Army says the country’s anti-missile defence system intercepted four rockets fired from neighbouring Syria on Tuesday. In a WhatsApp message posted on Tuesday morning, the Israeli Army said...

In what is seen as a further illustration of the central government’s broad powers over institutions in its territory, the Chinese government has appointed a new police chief in Hong Kong. The new...

Former Sri Lankan Defence Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been sworn in as the country’s new President. The country’s Chief Justice, Jayantha Jayasuriya on Monday administered the oath of office...

A state of emergency has been declared on the already flooded Italian city of Venice after it was hit by a new high tide of 160cm, giving residents no respite from a crisis costing millions of euros. World-famous...

International investigators looking into the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine on Thursday released intercepted phone calls showing close links between high-ranking Russian officials and rebel suspects...

United States Acting Ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor on Wednesday told an impeachment inquiry that President Donald Trump directly asked for a Ukrainian investigation into his Democratic rival, Joe...

United States President, Donald Trump says Wednesday’s meeting between him and Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House failed to resolve an issue which has badly strained relations...

A ‘five shining star’ snow crab has been auctioned off in Tottori, Japan for a whopping 5 million yen ($46,000). According to the Tottori prefecture’s fishery promotion division which...

A man who set off fireworks during a Remembrance Sunday event in England has been jailed for 16 weeks. The man, 38-year-old Stuart Potts from Borough Road, Salford was told by District Judge, Mark Hadfield...

A concrete tomb containing more than three million cubic feet of America’s nuclear waste is reportedly cracking under the strains of climate change. Officially known as the Runit Dome, the structure...

Former United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley has said that two top White House aides encouraged her to undermine President Donald Trump. In a new book titled With All Due Respect,...

Bolivian President, Evo Morales has resigned after nearly 14 years in power amid protests following his disputed re-election last month. The head of the army had called on him to go after protests over...

Britain’s longest-serving Indian-origin MP, Keith Vaz on Sunday announced his retirement from the parliament weeks after Commons Standards Committee recommended a six-month suspension for him over cocaine...