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 ...
US shutdown talks stall ahead of deadline
Talks between congressional Republicans and Democrats aimed at averting another US governm...
Finland basic income trial left people ‘happier but jobless’
Giving jobless people in Finland a basic income for two years did not lead them to find wor...
Jeff Bezos: Amazon boss accuses National Enquirer of blackmail
The world's richest man, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has accused the National Enquirer'...
Bafta: Queen director Singer suspended from nomination
Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been removed from his film's Bafta Awards nomi...
José Mourinho Spain tax fraud settled in multi-million deal
Ex-Manchester United boss José Mourinho has agreed a prison term in Spain for tax fraud bu...
Iraq angered by Trump idea to watch Iran from US base
Iraq's President Barham Saleh has rebuked Donald Trump over his comments that he wanted to...
Australia weather: Townsville warned as floodgates open
Officials in the Australian city of Townsville are deliberately flooding several neighbour...
INF nuclear treaty: Russia follows US in suspending pact
Russia has suspended its involvement in the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces...
Polar vortex death toll rises to 21 as US cold snap continues
At least 21 people have died in one of the worst cold snaps to hit the US Midwest in decade...
Polar vortex claims eight lives as US cold snap continues
At least eight people have died in the US Midwest as the region shivers in the grip of its ...
Alaska had its biggest landslide in decades, and no one saw
If millions of tons of rock slide down an Alaskan mountain and no one is around to hear it, ...
Iran offers prisoner swap for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national being held in a Tehran jail o...
Negative ads blanketing airwaves in 2016 campaign
Voters say they hate negative ads – but if Iowa is any gauge, the campaigns aren’t too w...
Venezuela crisis: Maduro closing border with Brazil
Venezuela's embattled President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the closure of the border with Brazil amid a row over foreign humanita...
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 erupted this year. China says they ag...
Jair Bolsonaro: Brazil’s new far-right president urges unity
Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has used his inaugural speech to promise to build a "society without discrimination or...
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 an independence referendum by 2021. Cab...
Kremlin warns US plan to quit nuclear pact is ‘dangerous’
Independent The Kremlin said yesterday that a landmark nuclear arms treaty that Washington says it wants to quit had its weak p...
National Front Party in France Is Dealt a Setback in Regional Elections
PARIS — French voters dealt a sharp setback to the far-right National Front in regional elections on Sunday, depriving the party of...
Kashmir attack: Bomb kills 40 Indian paramilitary police in convoy
Super Bowl I star Willie Wood doesn’t remember his NFL career
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