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...

The Iranian government says it has discovered a new oil field which would increase the country’s proven reserves by about a third. The Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani on Monday said the oil field...

American billionaire businessman, Michael Bloomberg is reportedly considering entering the race for the United States Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Bloomberg’s adviser, Howard...

A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million for misusing funds from his charity, The Donald J Trump Foundation to finance his 2016 political campaign. Prosecutors had accused...

More than 30 houses have been destroyed or seriously damaged in a bushfire in the Australian state of New South Wales. Scores of blazes burned across the state and neighbouring Queensland on Tuesday as...

North Korea on Thursday called Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, a moron who should not even dream of setting foot on Pyongyang for any reason. In a state media commentary laden with insults...

China could resort to military conflict with self-ruled Taiwan to divert domestic pressure if a slowdown in the world’s second largest economy threatens the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party. The...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced a Congolese warlord, Bosco ‘The Terminator’ Ntaganda to 30 years in jail after he was convicted of crimes including murder, rape and sexual...

The United States Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland on Wednesday revised his evidence to investigators and admitted he knew about the administration’s alleged quid pro quo with Ukraine. Sondland...

Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that his government has captured the wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, shortly after the former Islamic State leader killed himself during a raid by United...

Former Russian president, Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that the world is in colossal danger and must destroy all nuclear weapons to save the planet and mankind. In an interview with the BBC, the ex-Soviet...