Belgium’s ex-King Albert II submits DNA in paternity case
BBC News : Former Belgian King Albert II has submitted a DNA sample to avoid fines of €5,000 (£4,370) a day over claims he fathered a love-child in the 1960s. The 84-year-old, who has been fighting the paternity claim of Belgian artist Delphine Boël, 51, for over a decade, provided a ...
China sentences second Canadian to death
A court in China has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death for producing and trafficking me...
Racism row over Trieste half-marathon
Organisers of the Trieste half-marathon have reversed a ban on professional African athlet...
Scottish independence: UK government ‘will not grant indyref2 consent’
Theresa May's deputy has said the Scottish Parliament will not be given the power to hold a...
Kim Jong-un arrives in Vladivostok by train for Putin summit
As Kim Jong-un arrived at the Vladivostok railway station on Wednesday, white-gloved atte...
Iran offers prisoner swap for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national being held in a Tehran jail o...
Sri Lanka attacks: British dad’s tribute to ‘amazing’ family
A British husband has paid tribute to his "wonderful" wife and their two "amazing" childre...
Sri Lanka attacks: Who are National Thowheed Jamath?
A previously little-known group called the National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) is being accused...
All the president’s men and women: how disobedient aides saved Trump
The myth of Donald Trump presents him as a man of authority, a leader loved and feared, a ...
Gray urges Toulouse to usurp Leinster in battle of Champions Cup royalty
In a battle between the two most successful sides in Champions Cup history Toulouse must no...
Ethics committee raises alarm over ‘predictive policing’ tool
A computer tool used by police to predict which people are likely to reoffend has come...
Upping physical activity level yields diminishing returns
Increasing physical activity to burn more calories works up to a point, but then the body ad...
G20: US and China agree to suspend new trade tariffs
The two men met in Buenos Aires after the G20 summit for their first talks since a trade war...
Iran offers prisoner swap for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national being held in a Tehran jail o...
Dutchman, 69, brings lawsuit to lower his age 20 years
BBC News : Emile Ratelband, 69, wants to shift his birthday from 11 March 1949 to 11 March 1969, comparing the change to identifyi...
Gilets jaunes protesters take to the streets of Paris for fifth weekend
France saw a fifth weekend of protests by defiant gilets jaunes (yellow vests) who ignored government calls to stay home following t...
Pittsburgh shooting: Multiple casualties at Squirrel Hill synagogue
BBC News Eleven people have been killed, officials say, in a gun attack on a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvani...
Bomb kills three US soldiers in Afghanistan
Three US service members and one contractor have been killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Three other service members wer...
Islamic State group: Civilians evacuated from last Syria enclave
Civilians have been evacuated from the last village in Syria still held by the Islamic State (IS) group. At least 15 lorries car...
Afghanistan gold mine collapse in Badakhshan kills 30
At least 30 people have been killed in the collapse of a gold mine in north-eastern Afghanistan, officials say. The collapse occu...
Ethics committee raises alarm over ‘predictive policing’ tool
Alaska had its biggest landslide in decades, and no one saw
Rory McIlroy’s big-picture mentality could end in a Masters high-five
