As the new favourite to face far-Right candidate Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian election race, there is only one question on the lips of Fernando Haddad’s supporter base: who is he? Last week, jailed former…
What do you do when hundreds of mountain goats have become so addicted to the salt found in human urine and sweat that they are a deadly menace to national park visitors, charging at hikers…
Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded Saudi Arabia provide answers over the disappearance of journalist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi, whom Turkish officials suspect was murdered after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The Trump administration sharply…
Russia is meddling in Macedonia and trying to influence the outcome of a referendum this month that could open the way for the Balkan country to join Nato and the EU, the US Defence Secretary…
A leading United Nations human rights investigator has slammed Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s civilian leader, for acting as a “fig leaf for military atrocities” against the Rohingya minority. In an interview ahead of Tuesday’s…
Canadian public employees may be banned from wearing religious clothing under a “secularism law” being proposed in Quebec. Plans to forbid public employees from wearing religious symbols, including a Jewish kippah or a hijab, were announced by the centre-Right Coalition Avenir Quebec…
India’s Supreme Court ruled that the country’s controversial biometric identity scheme, the world’s largest, is constitutional and does not violate the right to privacy. The court however curtailed the scope of the Aadhaar identification scheme, declaring that…
A third woman has publicly accused Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, of sexual misconduct, claiming he was present at parties as a teenager where girls were “gang raped”. Julie Swetnick, a former US…
The next Nintendo Direct broadcast has been scheduled for tomorrow – Thursday, 8th March – at 10pm UK time. (That’s 2pm Pacific or 5pm Eastern, for our friends across the pond.) Lasting 30 minutes, the…
The towering wave was about 300 metres from shore when Adi first saw it hurtling towards his family’s beachside home in the Indonesian town of Pula. Adi, 27, who only uses one name, was starting…