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 ...
Venezuela crisis: Maduro closing border with Brazil
Venezuela's embattled President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the closure of the border with...
Bangladesh fire: Blaze kills dozens in Dhaka historic district
A fast-moving fire swept through a historic district of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, killin...
Islamic State group: Civilians evacuated from last Syria enclave
Civilians have been evacuated from the last village in Syria still held by the Islamic Stat...
Pulwama attack: Pakistan warns India against military action
Pakistan has warned it will retaliate if India takes military action against it after a mi...
Pulwama attack: Four Indian soldiers killed in Kashmir gun battle
Four soldiers have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir in a gun battle with militant...
Venezuela crisis: US planes carrying aid arrive in Colombia
US military planes have been delivering humanitarian aid for Venezuela in the Colombian bor...
Kashmir attack: Bomb kills 40 Indian paramilitary police in convoy
At least 40 Indian paramilitary police have been killed in a bomb attack by militants on t...
Paul Manafort: Trump ex-aide lied to prosecutors, judge rules
Donald Trump's former election campaign chief Paul Manafort breached his plea deal with sp...
Venezuela crisis: Juan Guaidó vows to bring in aid
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has vowed at a rally in the capital Caracas to e...
US shutdown: Parties in fresh talks as next deadline looms
Democratic and Republican negotiators are holding talks on Monday to try to reach a deal o...
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...
Super expensive champagnes to pop during the holidays
Lily Bollinger, of the House of Bollinger Champagne, once famously said, “I drink Champagn...
Christchurch shootings: 49 dead in New Zealand mosque attacks
Forty-nine people have been killed and at least 20 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the nation...
Pope’s year-end message warns about ‘tyranny of evil’
VATICAN CITY – In the final hours of 2015, Pope Francis is encouraging humanity to hang on to recollections of good deeds, so that...
North Korea defector hack: Personal data of almost 1,000 leaked
Almost 1,000 North Korean defectors have had their personal data leaked after a computer at a South Korean resettlement centre was...
‘About 170 migrants dead’ in Mediterranean shipwrecks
About 170 people are feared to have died in two separate Mediterranean shipwrecks, the UNHCR says. The Italian navy reports a sh...
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...
Russian rescue amid deadly blaze on two cargo ships off Crimea
At least 11 people have died in a fire involving two Tanzanian-flagged cargo vessels in the Black Sea near the Kerch Strait, autho...
Insane drone photos of pink lakes, erupting volcanoes, and more
Charlie Whiting: F1 race director dies aged 66 on eve of season-opener in Melbourne
Take a gander: Audubon Society’s Christmas bird count underway
Iran offers prisoner swap for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
