'The European Union seems to be falling in love with itself and needs to be reformed. We wanted to be the best in the world. But it seems many regions in world are far ahead of us.” These may sound like the sentiments of an ardent Brexiteer; but they are, in fact, the words of the Slovakian prime minister, Robert...
Hillary's Message to America The Democrat promised voters she’d do her job intelligently and doggedly—and help them be the heroes of their own lives. The Democratic convention, which culminated on Thursday night with Hillary Clinton, was inverted. Usually, supporting actors cover policy specifics and flay the...
US President Barack Obama has delivered a stirring speech at the Democratic convention, hailing Hillary Clinton as his political heir and rounding on "home-grown demagogue" Donald Trump. "There has never been a man or woman, not me, not Bill, nobody more qualified than Hillary" to be president, he said. When...
French prosecutors have identified the second man involved in the killing of a priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday as 19-year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean. Like the other attacker, Adel Kermiche, he was known to the security services. The teenagers were shot dead by police outside the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray where...
Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She said the attackers "wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help people in need. We firmly reject this". But she did propose new...
JUST one extremist in Britain is under curfew despite there being more than 2,000 terror suspects in the UK, it has been revealed. The Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures, known as T-Pims, is used by the police and MI5 to keep surveillance on terror suspects who are yet to be deported. But, as of May this year, the...
JEAN-Claude Juncker’s chief Brexit negotiator’s role has been dismissed by a former cabinet member. Sir Malcolm Rifkind said former French foreign minister Michel Barnier was a “tough guy”. But the former foreign secretary played down Barnier’s role in the Brexit negotiations, claiming Theresa May...
About 70 members of Russia's Olympic team have left a Moscow airport for Brazil to take part in Rio 2016 while others stay at home, banned for doping. Members of the volleyball, handball, boxing, synchronised swimming and table tennis teams were seen off at Sheremetyevo Airport. The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) wanted...
The Japanese city of Hiroshima has asked Pokemon Go's creators to keep its virtual monsters out of memorials to victims of the atomic bomb. It wants the monsters removed by 6 August, when an annual ceremony is held on the anniversary of the 1945 bombing. It follows a request by the operators of the Fukushima nuclear plant...
Health officials in Florida are investigating four cases of Zika that do not appear to be related to travel. So far cases outside of Latin America and the Caribbean, where the virus is prevalent, have been spread by travel to that region or sexual transmission. The four Florida cases have raised the possibility that mosquitoes...
NIGEL Farage is reportedly set for a reality TV career after he entered advanced talks with producers of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! The former Ukip boss allegedly turned down entering the Celebrity Big Brother house after producers refused to pay him a fee of £750,000. But negotiations are said to...
Look at the dome on that! We're getting a brand new Museum of London: Smithfield architecture designs revealed The Museum of London rose from the ashes a blitz-shattered corner of the City, as part of the Barbican regeneration in the '60s and '70s. Documenting the history of the city, from prehistoric times to the...