Scotland captain Darren Fletcher has agreed a two-year deal to join Stoke City when his contract with Premier League counterparts West Brom expires. The 33-year-old did not miss a top-flight game...
US coal producers welcomed President Trump's decision on Thursday to pull the US out of the Paris climate deal. But the move drew criticism from other business executives, who said it would hurt US...
Comic actor Roy Barraclough, who played Rovers Return landlord Alec Gilroy in Coronation Street, has died aged 81. Julie Goodyear, who starred as his on-screen wife Bet Lynch, led the tributes by...
President Donald Trump has announced that the US is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate agreement. He said moves to negotiate a new "fair" deal that would not disadvantage US businesses and...
A man armed with an assault weapon who fired shots inside an entertainment resort and casino in the capital, Manila, committed suicide by setting himself alight, Philippine police said on Friday....
When General Motors CEO Mary Barra introduced the Chevrolet Bolt at the CES gadget show last year, she took a shot at Tesla. Buyers can be confident because Chevy has 3,000 U. S. dealers to service...
U. S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday he was confident that Congress would raise the federal debt limit "before there's an issue" with U.S. creditworthiness, and he pledged that...
The White House communications director resigned only three months after being hired The White House communications director has resigned only three months after being hired by President Donald...
Barcelona will make another appearance in the United States this summer as they prepare for a renewed assault on La Liga and the Champions League in 2017-18. With Ernesto Valverde replacing Luis...
Economic activities in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state, south-east Nigeria were shut down Tuesday May 30th in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary, of the declaration of secession...
A fossil of one of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco. A study of the jawbone, led by the...
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega has died at the age of 83 following brain surgery this year. Noriega, who ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989, spied for the CIA until the United States invaded...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it is "absolutely essential" that the world unite to combat the threat from climate change. Speaking in New York, Mr Guterres said if any country...
US President Donald Trump called Germany's trade and spending policies "very bad" - intensifying a row between the longtime allies and immediately earning himself the moniker "destroyer of Western...
Sterling fell more than half a percent against the US dollar to $1.28. The pound fell sharply after a projection suggested the Conservative Party could fail to win an outright majority in the...
Drug testing for welfare clients in the United States has led to the disqualification of as few as 0.01 percent of recipients in some states. That's the latest research presented by the Australian...
A 12-year-old Australian schoolgirl was among 17 people killed in a car bomb attack on an ice-cream parlour in Baghdad on Tuesday night. Zaynb Al Harbeya, 12, was in the Iraqi capital with her...
Michael Cohen is the latest Trump associate to refuse to cooperate with the Russia inquiry President Donald Trump's lawyer has received requests for information from two congressional panels...
Migrants rescued from a rubber boat that left Libya last week said as many as 30 people were trampled or drowned during their voyage as this year's Mediterranean death toll climbed to more than...
Tennis player Maxime Hamou’s accreditation has been revoked by the organisers of the French Open after he tried to kiss a female reporter repeatedly during a live TV interview. The French player,...
