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 ...
Tory leadership: Johnson says party on ‘final warning’
BBC News : Boris Johnson, the front-runner in the Tory leadership race, has said the pa...
Anthony Albanese: Australia’s Labor opposition elects new leader
BBC News : Australia's Labor opposition has chosen Anthony Albanese as its new leader a...
In Pictures: Donald Trump enjoys sumo tournament in Japan
BBC News : US President Donald Trump has attended a sumo wrestling tournament during hi...
NHS fines for 1.7 million people overturned, watchdog finds
"I was panicking, I didn't know what to do," said Trisha Costello, who faced a £160 ...
US jury awards $2bn damages in Roundup weedkiller cancer claim
A jury in California has awarded more than $2bn (£1.5bn) to a couple who said the wee...
WASHINGTON — President Obama welcomed President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia to the White House on Thursday for a buoyant celebration of the $10 billion, 15-ye...
BAGHDAD — Night after night, Mohammed al-Jabiry tossed and turned in his bed at a refugee center in Finland, comparing life in Europe with life in Baghdad. After...
In a case that echoes the Takata airbag recalls, automakers including Honda and Fiat Chrysler will recall about five million vehicles worldwide to fix a defect in ...
As concern grows over the Zika virus, major airlines are offering to re-assign flight crew concerned about contracting the disease from routes to affected countrie...
In China, Books That Make Money, and Enemies
HONG KONG — In a dimly lit industrial building in Hong Kong, hundreds of books wrapped in ...
Mother nature not making it easy for millions of holiday travelers
DALLAS – Airlines are shifting the timing of thousands of flights, even adding dozens of ...
3 Super Bowl snack swaps that cut the salt
The Super Bowl is around the corner, which means it’s snack time. Since the new government...
Meat on famed 1950s Explorer Club gala menu was actually sea turtle
The meat eaten at a lavish New York City Explorers Club dinner in 1951 – which at one poin...
Brazil’s new foreign minister believes climate change is a Marxist plot
Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has chosen a new foreign minister who believes climate change is part of a plot by “cultu...
World War 3: Russia to arm an ‘INVINCIBLE’ nuclear weapon by 2019 says Putin
Express : Tensions between Washington and Moscow reached a new high as the Russian President claimed he has a weapon that can resi...
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...
Thailand votes in first post-coup election
About 50 million voters are heading to the polls in Thailand for the first general election since the 2014 coup. Thailand has be...
Air Force reinstates pilots disciplined over Miley-themed texts, reps hail decision
The Air Force has decided three Air Force pilots were telling the truth when they said it was Miley Cyrus – and not drug-dealing ...
Putin accuses Ukraine’s Poroshenko of Black Sea ‘provocation’
Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, of orchestrating a naval “provocation” in the Black Sea at th...
Can the US military build Star Wars-style laser cannons for its troops?
Extinction looms for Charles Darwin’s finches, and humans are to blame
Kim Jong-un arrives in Vladivostok by train for Putin summit
