Members of the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion yesterday used a decommissioned fire engine to spray fake blood over the front of Britain’s finance ministry in London. Protesters, who sprayed 1,800 litres of the fake blood outside the Treasury, also held up

A Russian man has filed a lawsuit against Apple for moral harm claiming that an iPhone app had turned him gay, according to a copy of the complaint seen by AFP. The man filed suit in a Moscow court asking for one million rubles ($15,000) after an incident this summer in

Facebook on Wednesday was dealt a major blow in the EU’s top court, which ruled that national courts in Europe can order online platforms to remove defamatory content worldwide.

A man wielding a knife stabbed and killed four officers at the police headquarters in the heart of central Paris on Thursday, before being shot dead.

A UK High Court judge yesterday ruled in favour of India in a decades-old legal dispute with Pakistan over funds belonging to the Nizam of Hyderabad at the time of Partition in 1947 and deposited in a London bank account.

A special ship designed to clean the oceans has harvested its first plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch since setting sail from San Francisco last month, its Dutch inventor said yesterday. The project by The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch non-profit group, involves a supply

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday proposed a new Brexit plan aimed at removing the need for customs checks at the Irish border, calling the EU-backed approach a “bridge to nowhere”.

Dozens of world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, yesterday paid their final respects to ex-president Jacques Chirac as France held a national day of mourning for the popular former head of state.

Britain’s Boris Johnson is known for his colourful love life but the accusation he grabbed a young woman’s thigh when he was a magazine editor risks a scandal as he seeks to unite his party over Brexit.

Austrians voted yesterday with the conservatives expected to win most seats but not a majority, forcing them into difficult coalition negotiations after a corruption scandal brought down their coalition government with the far-right. The People’s Party (OeVP) led by 33-year-old Sebastian Kurz is predicted to win around 33 percent, up slightly from the last election two years ago but not enough to form a government on its own.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson could be forced out of office this week as opposition lawmakers try to join forces to replace him with an interim administration in order to secure another Brexit delay.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterdaylost yet another vote in parliament over a government request for a three-day recess to allow his Conservative party to hold its annual conference. The government lost the vote, which could affect the timing of the conference

Britain’s most senior EU official launched a stinging attack on Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday, branding his comments about death threats against lawmakers “crass and dangerous”.

Jacques Chirac, the former French president who was a colossal figure in the country’s politics for three decades, died yesterday at the age of 86, his family told AFP.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson loses yet another vote in parliament over a government request for a three-day recess to allow his Conservative party to hold its annual conference.

Former French president Jacques Chirac, a centre-right career politician who served as head of state from 1995 to 2007, has died, his family told AFP on Thursday. He was 86.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday challenged opposition MPs to call a confidence vote in his government, after the Supreme Court struck down his decision to suspend parliament in the run-up to Brexit.

Yesterday’s ruling by the UK Supreme Court, which found Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament unlawful, is a humiliating blow for the prime minister and has momentous implications for Britain’s constitutional order. Here is a rundown of the main questions it raises:

Greta Thunberg’s emotional and strong pleas to world leaders at a UN climate summit apparently made little impact as announcements by major economies fell far short of expectations.

The United Kingdom's Supreme Court rules that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had acted unlawfully when he advised Queen Elizabeth to suspend parliament weeks before Brexit - and that therefore the suspension was void.