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 ...
Erdoğan cannot claim moral high ground over Khashoggi, say critics
The Guardian The death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanb...
Kremlin warns US plan to quit nuclear pact is ‘dangerous’
Independent The Kremlin said yesterday that a landmark nuclear arms treaty that Washin...
Jamal Khashoggi: Pressure grows on Saudis as US envoy meets king
BBC News Mr Khashoggi was last seen at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago. ...
Hurricane Michael: More deaths likely as storm wreaks havoc on Florida
Sky News Hurricane Michael was a fickle beast. It left some structures standing and explo...
Hurricane Michael: ‘Extremely dangerous’ storm set to hit Florida
BBC News Hurricane Michael has been upgraded to an "extremely dangerous" category 4 storm...
Kim Jong Un agrees to close missile test site after South Korea talks
North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un has vowed to permanently dismantle a missile test site and ...
Typhoon Mangkhut Slams Hong Kong and Southern China
HONG KONG — Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong and Macau on Sunday with 100 miles-per-hou...
Toll rises to 44 dead in Japan earthquake; Toyota Motors suspends operations in 16 assembly plants
Tokyo: The death toll from a powerful earthquake in northern Japan last week rose to 44, wit...
Sightsavers is an organization that aims at preventing avoidable blindness, and advocates fo...
An exhibition of photographs taken by blind people was organized by Sightsavers at the Briti...
Uber Drivers and Others in the Gig Economy Take a Stand
Last September, Dallas-area drivers for UberBlack, the company’s high-end car service, rec...
Feds’ encryption fears overblown, report finds
Ever since Apple and Google made their operating systems encrypted by default in 2014, the f...
Charlie Whiting: F1 race director dies aged 66 on eve of season-opener...
Charlie Whiting, the head of Formula 1 for governing body the FIA and one of the most infl...
Tory leadership: Johnson says party on ‘final warning’
BBC News : Boris Johnson, the front-runner in the Tory leadership race, has said the party risks being "dismissed" if it does n...
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...
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...
US and North Korea suffer communication breakdown
BBC News : Instead, the US and North Korea appear to be staring one another down, waiting for the other to blink or make a move....
A Climate Deal, 6 Fateful Years in the Making
PARIS — It took almost two weeks for negotiators from 195 countries to finally pass the landmark climate accord this weekend after ...
Moscow plane fire: 41 killed on Aeroflot jet
Forty-one people were killed after a Russian plane made an emergency landing and burst into flames at Sheremetyevo airport in Mosc...
Philippe Dauman Succeeds Sumner Redstone as Viacom Chairman
Take a gander: Audubon Society’s Christmas bird count underway
Iran offers prisoner swap for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
