Tory chief whip Julian Smith under fire in pairing row
Asked whether she endorsed her chief whip's conduct, Mrs May said: "There was an honest mistake made for which the chief whip and Brandon Lewis have both apologised to the member concerned". Robert Peston , the political editor of ITV News, said: "... More..
Russian Federation says Putin, Trump discussed referendum in Ukraine
The Russian ambassador to Washington also denounced what he saw as "anti-Russian anger" in the United States and the "severity" of the USA criticism of Trump's performance at the summit. Mr Trump may have been ...More..
Tornadoes rip through Iowa and cause 'catastrophic damage'
According to the Associated Press , tornadoes touched down in Pella, which is about 45 miles southeast of Des Moines, and Marshalltown, which is about 50 miles northeast of Des Moines. A local resident runs pa...More..
Waitress pushes man against a wall for groping her; gets him arrested
The CCTV video shows Emelia Holden , 21, taking a table's order in the patio area at the restaurant and then taking the menus to the restaurant counter. "I took the guy down and had my co-workers call the poli...More..
INTERNATIONAL - Comey urges Americans to vote for Democrats
In a tweet on Tuesday evening, Comey called the Republican-held Congress "incapable of fulfilling the Founders' design". This just in! Former FBI Director James Comey endorses the takeover of Congress b...More..
Putin summit: Five key takeaways
In an effort to clarify his comments about Russian election interference and USA intelligence agencies, Trump gave a statement to cameras from the White House Tuesday in which he outlined in general terms some ...More..
Trump passes up opportunity to call Putin a liar
President Donald Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin , denying Trump ever meant to say that Moscow was no longer targeting the United States. That assertion is not supported by known intel...More..
After Helsinki, Trump plans to host Putin in Washington
Putin made the offer in exchange for the United States allowing Russian Federation to question people "who have something to do with illegal actions in the territory of Russian Federation". He also said he wo...More..
Theresa May survives rebel MPs but EU's Brexit judgment looms
During his Brussels meeting, Raab offered to meet Barnier "throughout the summer to intensify negotiations, to get some energy, get some drive and get some heat on them to make sure we can conclude this agreeme...More..
Macron fires aide Alexandre Benalla who stamped on protester
On Thursday, Macron stayed unusually silent on what French media have already christened "the Benalla Affair" when reporters questioned him during a visit to the Dordogne in central France . The BBC's Hugh Sch...More..
To Combat Fake News in India, WhatsApp to Limit Forwarding of Messages
The government on Thursday reissued a warning to the company that it could face legal consequences if they remained "mute spectators". "We believe that these changes - which we'll continue to evaluate - will ...More..
Mom allegedly admits to letting men rape her 2-year-old daughter
The disturbing case began unfolding on June 29, when police were called to a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, for a report of a rape, according to Kansas City Star . On June 29, she was arrested for failing ...More..
Trump extends invitation to Putin for fall meeting in Washington
Terrorism, Israel, nuclear proliferation, cyber attacks, trade, Ukraine, the Middle East and North Korea were among the issues they talked about, Trump said in a tweet on Thursday. Trump initially had describ...More..
Japan, EU sign free trade agreement
Pointedly referring to Trump without actually naming him, Tusk insisted that the EU-Japan trade deal was "an act of enormous strategic importance for the rules-based worldwide order, at a time when some are que...More..
Time magazine cover morphs Donald Trump into Vladimir Putin
Regarding your editorial "Containing Putin-and Trump" (July 18): With President Trump's faux pas with President Vladimir Putin , perhaps it is time to think about what the real crimes are in this situation...More..
Family of mummies found in mysterious sarcophagus
Discovered in the Egyptian city of Alexandria next to an alabaster statue of a man's head, the black granite coffin is thought to come from the Ptolemaic period (323-30 BC) and is nearly 9 feet long, 5 feet wid...More..
At least 8 dead after tourist boat incident
A dive team is assisting. Injured people were taken to hospital after the "Ride the Ducks" amphibious vehicle capsized on the lake near Branson, Missouri , the district said on Twitter. Crews classify the ...More..
China Trade Policy Review Concludes, Highlighting IPRs, Industrial Policy, and Transparency
A public hearing on the latest proposal, to be held at the Washington, D.C. offices of the US International Trade Commission, is scheduled for August 20. Such efforts aimed at influencing foreign politics and p...More..
Arrest warrants for Catalan politicians dropped by Spanish court
This means that Puigdemont, who is now in Germany awaiting extradition proceedings, and five other Catalans who are scattered in Scotland, Belgium and Switzerland, are free to move from country to country. But ...More..
Steam pipe explosion in Manhattan
At least, five high-pressure steam pipes exploded in Flatiron District, according to the New York Post . Eleven buildings have been evacuated, FDNY said. PIX11's Craig Treadway, who is on scene, described th...More..
Warship carrying $130B in gold is found 113 years after sinking
It said it hoped to hoist the ship from its depth of more than 400 meters (0.25 miles) within months. Dong-Ah Construction claimed to have been the first to find the wreck in 2000 and also claimed there was a...More..
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British police believe they know suspects in spy Novichok poisoning
Subsequent investigation indicated they were poisoned by a nerve agent of the type Novichok , a group of deadly chemicals developed in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 80s. An inquest into the death of Sturge...More..
Salisbury public gardens searched as investigation continues into couple's Novichok poisoning
Meanwhile the New York Times reported that the Russian GRU agency is thought to be responsible for the attacks in Salisbury . Investigators are working to the theory that the substance was in a discarded per...More..
Mark Zuckerberg clarifies his Holocaust comments
But there are indeed people who naively share Holocaust denial-related content on Facebook without being in on the scam, just as there are gullible people who fall for every other kind of hoax-vaccines causin...More..
U.S. challenges trading partners' retaliatory tariffs at WTO
The comments from EU Council President Donald Tusk comes as Washington and Beijing stand on the brink of an all-out trade war many fear could hammer the global economy, while the USA has also picked fight...More..
White House: Trump's remarks about Russian meddling misinterpreted
Instead, in her keynote speech to him the following day, she listed British firms investing in key states Mr Trump won in 2016, perhaps learning from Japan's Shinzo Abe and other leaders who have discovered tha...More..
Trump tells North Atlantic Treaty Organisation leaders to increase defence spend to 4% GDP
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg suggested that the group should be more focused on having all member states reach the current spending goal of 2% of GDP, the Washington Post reports. Not exactly wh...More..
Thai Boys Talk About Experience in Flooded Cave
They also plan to join the Thai monkhood as novices, as Chantawong previously did, in honor of the diver who rdied during the rescue operation, per the Guardian . The Seals were instrumental in saving the boys...More..
Palestine Tensions: Knesset adopts controversial 'Jewish state' law
It stipulates that "Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people and they have an exclusive right to national self-determination in it". One clause downgrades the Arabic language from official to "spe...More..
Two shark attacks reported off New York's Fire Island
In that case, 12-year-old Lola Pollina was bitten and suffered a wound to her leg. Warning: Graphic photo She was able to walk to shore with assistance from her caregiver before she was taken to the hospital....More..