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...
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...
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...
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...
Justin Trudeau took a holiday on the Aga Khan’s private island in the Caribbean. Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/AP Justin Trudeau, under fire for holidaying on a Caribbean island owned by the Aga Khan, has revealed he flew there by private helicopter – an apparent breach of official ethics rules. The Canadian prime...
New York // Donald Trump on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on American intelligence agencies which he accused of allowing the release of documents containing unverified allegations that Russian agents had compromising information about the president-elect. He compared their activities with those of Nazi Germany,...
British prime minister Theresa May and Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon are locking horns over their preferred versions of Brexit, with Scotland warning it will once again attempt to declare independence from the United Kingdom. Ms Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the head of the Scottish...
Northern Ireland's deputy first minister Martin McGuinness has resigned from his post in a move that threatens the province's power-sharing agreement. He said his resignation comes with "deep regret and reluctance" and is in protest at how the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) dealt with a renewable energy...
Joe Biden has never shied away from expressing his dislike of Donald Trump and has, on multiple occasions slammed the president-elect for his inflammatory statements. In a recent interview with PBS NewsHour, the out-going vice president once again voiced his opinion of Trump and said that it was time for him to "be an...
US President-elect Donald Trump has created yet more diplomatic shockwaves with a pair of tweets in which he urged the nation of Israel to "stay strong" until his inauguration on 20 January. The remarks came in the wake of the Obama administration's refusal to veto a UN Security Council resolution that condemned...
Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC's political editor, has said that the Queen did back Brexit ahead of the UK's referendum on its membership of the EU. However, she said she could not report it at the time because it had only come from one source instead of the two required by BBC editorial policy. In March this year, prior to...
"You have to be seen to be believed," the Queen once observed in a reference to her need always to be in the public eye, but this week she was seen to be overshadowed by her successor. In a photographic portrait released on Sunday and redolent with symbolism, a relaxed Prince Charles looks down on a seated and...