British Prime Minister Theresa May is to give further details of her plans for Brexit in a speech in which she will declare she does not want an outcome which leaves the UK "half-in, half-out" of the European Union. Extracts released by Downing Street in advance of the much-awaited address are likely to fuel...
Rescue teams surveyed over 46,000 square miles of Indian Ocean but to no avail After nearly three years, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has ended in futility and frustration, as crews completed their deep-sea search of a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean without finding a trace of the plane. The Joint Agency...
Four police officers were killed and two others wounded in roadside bomb explosion on Monday as a police vehicle passed by in the Kurdish-majority south-eastern Turkey, the local governor's office said. The attack took place in the Sur neighbourhood of Diyarbakir province, where the Turkish army launched an intensive...
Former US astronaut Eugene Cernan, who became the last astronaut to walk on the moon in an experience that he said made him one with the universe, died on Monday at 82, the US space agency said. Cernan, who also was one of the first men to go on a spacewalk, died surrounded by his family, Nasa said in a statement without giving...
A Tennessee teenager who started a campaign page to pay her college fees after her father cut her off for dating a black man has raised more than $30,000 (£25,000) despite accusations of racism. Private high-school student Allie Dowdle claims her father has stripped her of her savings and is refusing to pay for her higher...
Millions of crustaceans have been rehydrated by rain in Australia in normally arid desert areas, where precipitation only comes once every half a century. Floods in December 2016 were so severe that Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock), near Alice Springs, was shut to the public as extensive areas of the outback were submerged....
US President-elect Donald Trump has praised the UK's decision to leave the European Union and promised a trade deal between the US and UK "quickly" and "properly" when he comes to office. Trump said that he was set to meet with UK Prime Minister Theresa May "right after I get into the White...
Up to 100 people are feared dead after a migrant boat capsized off the Libyan coast. The Italian coast guard is carrying out a search operation in the frigid waters but so far only four survivors and eight dead bodies have been found. There were about 110 people on board the vessel when it overturned about 30 miles off...
Britain continues to be battered by extreme weather, with 50 flood warnings still in place. Flood warnings and alerts have been issued for across the east coast of England, with Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk getting worst hit. The Environment Agency has put in place 15 flood warnings, which warn that ‘immediate action is...
The US House of Representatives has joined the Senate in passing a critical measure that marks the first major step towards repealing outgoing President Barack Obama's landmark but controversial health care reforms. The House's party-line vote of 227 to 198 approved a budget blueprint which provides Republicans, who...
An influential group of MPs has called on British Prime Minister Theresa May to publish by mid-February her plans for leaving the European Union. The cross-party Brexit committee called for a policy document clarifying the government's "broad aims", including whether Britain should stay in the single market and...
Priyanka Chopra was rushed to the emergency room after suffering a head injury while filming a stunt on set for the hit TV show “Quantico” Thursday. Chopra reportedly slipped and fell on her head so hard during the stunt she got a concussion. The actress was taken to the emergency room late Thursday night where she...