German Chancellor Angela Merkel came armed with a “cheat sheet”, including a photograph, to identify Australia’s new prime minister before meeting him at the G20 summit – an incident seen in Australia as an embarrassing…
Donald Trump threatened to permanently close the US-Mexico border on Monday after US authorities used tear gas to stop migrants crossing into the country illegally. Forty two people were arrested after a group of migrants…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, has been hospitalised after she fractured three ribs in a fall in her Washington office. The court’s oldest justice fell Wednesday evening but went to George Washington University Hospital after experiencing discomfort overnight, court…
An Indonesian woman whose fiance died on a Lion Air flight that plunged into the sea was photographed in her wedding dress and professed her love for him on the day they were to have been…
The December solstice happens at the same instant for everyone, everywhere on Earth – and this year the winter solstice occurs today, Friday December 21st 22:23 GMT in the Northern Hemisphere. The winter solstice happens every year…
For Sergey Lagodinsky, the timing could not have been more symbolic. As Germany marked the 80th anniversary of the Kristallnacht Nazi pogrom against the country’s Jews over the weekend, he secured nomination as a Green…
Things sure are changing quickly in Canada’s housing markets. After years of growth, the country will see falling house prices and sales this year, led by Toronto and Vancouver, and only a modest rebound next…
Potholes have killed more Indians in the past five years than terrorist attacks, the Supreme Court has said. Around 10 people a day die because of fatal accidents on the country’s woeful road network. The…
OTTAWA — A Canadian data expert who set off an international uproar over the alleged leak of private Facebook user data lost his job years ago in the office of former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff,…
Influential German news weekly Der Spiegel said Sunday it would file a criminal complaint against a disgraced reporter after it emerged he may have embezzled donations intended for Syrian street children. Claas Relotius, 33, resigned this month…