A property tycoon has been sentenced to death in Vietnam after the biggest fraud trial in the country’s history. Truong My Lan was sentenced on Thursday...
The risks of the Gaza war expanding into a much bigger regional conflict had seemed to have subsided. Not any longer. Comments from Iranian and American...
An Israeli airstrike has killed three sons of Hamas’s top political leader in an attack on high-profile targets in Gaza. Hamas said four of Ismail Haniyeh’s...
Yemen’s fishermen set out at dawn to take on seas where they know they could face pirates, smugglers, and now Houthi militant missile attacks. “We’re always...
Four bodies have been recovered following an explosion at a power plant next to a dam in Italy. Sky News’ Italian branch reported five others were...
How much will Donald Trump have enjoyed it? A British Foreign Secretary – the same one who had described him, variously, as “stupid,” “wrong” and “misogynistic”...
Three men and two women have been killed during a fire in a largely residential building in Hong Kong. Another 27 people have been left injured....
Dogs are man’s best friend nowadays but humans once kept an unexpected pet, new research suggests. In what has been labelled a “rare and unusual find,”...
The Champions League quarter-finals will go ahead as scheduled this week despite an alleged terror threat, UEFA says. A media outlet linked to IS allegedly issued...
The grinding misery in Yemen just got worse. Yet while their own suffering goes on in virtual silence, they still protest in towns across Yemen in...
Millions of people were plunged into darkness during the day on Monday as the total solar eclipse made its way across the United States and eastern...
A total solar eclipse plunged the skies along a swathe of North America into darkness. The moon completely blocked out the sun for more than four...
Israel’s prime minister has reiterated his vow to invade the city of Rafah in southern Gaza and declared: “There is a date.” Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly...
Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after melting snow triggered the worst recorded flooding in Russia’s Ural mountains. Russia declared an emergency...
At least 94 people, including children, have died after a makeshift ferry sank off the northern coast of Mozambique, according to reports in the country. The...
An engine cover has fallen off a Boeing plane and struck the wing flap – shortly after take-off in the US. Passengers filmed videos from their...
Sex change operations and surrogacy are “grave threats” to human dignity, the Vatican has declared in a new document that sets out its position on a...
An “exceptionally intense” cloud of dust from the Sahara is making its way across Europe. The dust plume has been travelling across most of Spain to...
At least 94 people, including children, have died after a makeshift ferry sank off the northern coast of Mozambique, according to reports in the country. The...
“The Hardest Geezer” has revealed the scariest moment from his gruelling 352-day run across the whole length of Africa. In a news conference, Russ Cook said...