Hillary Clinton and her supporters spent a record $1.2 billion for her losing presidential campaign — twice as much as the winner, Donald Trump, according to the latest records. The president-elect, who confounded critics during the campaign by saying there was no need to raise or spend $1 billion or more, ended up making...
Saudi Arabia is said to have told its customers across the US and Europe that it will be cutting down on its crude shipments from January. The world's second largest oil country in terms of proven reserves, has reportedly said that the move was in line with the outcome of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting...
Donald Trump's senior advisor has come forward to defend his decision to continue as an executive producer and profit participant on the Celebrity Apprentice, even after taking office in January. Speaking to CNN on 9 December, Kellyanne Conway said that the president-elect planned to use his "spare time" to work...
At least 400 migrants have forced their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, bordering Morocco, on 9 December. It was the biggest group to have stormed the city in a decade, authorities said. "You have to go back to the early 2000s to see numbers like this," a local government spokesman told AFP. South Korea:...
A longtime UPS driver was hailed as a hero for calling cops after he spotted a woman’s desperate plea for help scrawled on a package — saving her from being held captive and sexually assaulted by her husband in their Missouri home, authorities said. Sgt. T.J. Wild of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department...
A group funded by billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg is calling for President-elect Donald Trump to scale back calls he made for the mass deportation of immigrants on the 2016 campaign trail. "This election clearly showed that Americans are wildly frustrated with our broken immigration system,"...
A man allegedly planning a terror attack was arrested in the Dutch city of Rotterdam in possession of a loaded Kalashnikov assault rifle. The man was arrested at his home by police acting on a tip-off from Dutch intelligence agency the AIVD, prosecutors said. The 30-year-old suspect had a Kalashnikov with two full magazines of...
Hillary Clinton has issued a stern warning on Thursday (8 December) against fake news, branding it an "epidemic" which must be addressed to protect America's democracy. In her second public address since losing the US election to Donald Trump, the Democrat made the comment in the wake of a flurry of widely...
While Tata Steel's decision to invest £1bn ($1.26bn) in its UK business could save the Port Talbot plant from closing down, it still faces some major hurdles, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has warned. The UK non-departmental public body said these hurdles were related to Tata Steel's UK pension scheme. The...
A child mummy from the 17th century has shed a new light on the history of smallpox. Although the disease has been documented in ancient civilisations, scientists now think that this chronology is incorrect and that the virus that causes smallpox diversified more recently than previously thought. Smallpox is the first disease...
Hundreds of police officers are alleged to have sexually exploited victims and suspects in what the police watchdog has called the "most serious corruption issue facing the service". Forces across England and Wales received 436 allegations of sexual exploitation in the last two years up to March 2016, with complaints...
Шокирующую новость сообщил американский телеканал на многомиллионную аудиторию. Начиная выпуск новостей в прямом эфире, ведущий Джо Торрес печально заявил, что лидер...