United States researchers, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza as well as Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe on Monday shared the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. According...

The Police in London say they have arrested 21 climate change activists over the past few days as the Extinction Rebellion group attempts to draw attention to increasing global warming. The capital’s...

A painting by England’s anonymous street artist, Banksy showing the British House of Commons overrun by chimpanzees has sold at auction for just under £9.9 million. Expected to fetch up to £2 million,...

At least five persons were killed after an Antonov-12 transport plane crash-landed near Lviv Airport in western Ukraine on Friday morning. Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister, Vladislav Krikliy said...

The wife of the French Police employee who killed four colleagues at the Paris Force’s Headquarters on Thursday says he had a psychotic episode, was incoherent and heard voices the night before. The...

United States prosecutors say jailed Mexican drug lord, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzman gave $1million bribe to the brother of the President of Honduras, which was meant to reach the country’s leader. The...

A zebra which ran away from a circus in Tessin, northeastern Germany has been shot dead on a highway by the police after causing traffic accidents and material damage.  A press release by the Rostock...

The first cannabis restaurant in the United States has opened in West Hollywood, offering diners an array of weed product Named Lowell Farms: A Cannabis Cafe, the hyped 240-seat establishment is open...

A rare World War II era plane has crashed at an airport in Connecticut, the United States, killing seven people. Thirteen people were on board the vintage Boeing B-17, dubbed the Flying Fortress when it...

Indonesia’s new Parliament on Tuesday unanimously elected and swore in Puan Maharani as the country’s first female Speaker of the House of Representatives.  The swearing in of the 46-year-old...

Dozens of people have been injured after Iraqi security forces fired live bullets, tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters in Baghdad, the country’s capital. A Tuesday...

Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday said it has convicted three people of spying for the United States, sentencing one of them to death and jailing two others. Yet another man was jailed for spying for...

Hong Kong Police on Tuesday morning shot a protester at close range, leaving him with a bleeding shoulder in a fearsome escalation of anti-government demonstrations spreading across the semi-autonomous...

The first women-only hotel in Spain, Som Dona Hotel has opened in Mallorca. The Hotel, located near Porto Cristo exclusively caters for women aged 14 years and above. With 39 rooms, a pool, spa, library...

Somalia‘s Islamic  rebels on Monday launched two attacks on United States and European military targets. Officials said the first attack was on a military airstrip which is a base for US and Somali...

A Sunday night factory fire has reportedly killed 19 people in Ninghai County, eastern China. Authorities on Monday said the deadly incident is the latest to hit the country’s industrial sector. This...

The United States government says it will slash by almost half the number of refugees allowed into the country. The US State Department on Friday said a record-low 18,000 migrants will be accepted under...

A Pakistani court on Friday morning convicted the brother of social media star, Qandeel Baloch of her 2016 murder which sparked a change in laws and ignited fierce debate over the prevalence of ‘honour...

Jacques Chirac, the former French president who worked so hard to strengthen the establishment of the European Union (EU) has died on Thursday at the age of 86. Chirac, whose later years were blighted...

Ethiopian security forces on Wednesday recovered 20 Kalashnikov rifles and 53,921 light and heavy machine gun bullets in a sting operation in the country’s northeastern Afar Regional State. According...