A big financial loss may shorten your life, a new study suggests. Middle-aged Americans who experienced a sudden, large economic blow were more likely to die during the following years than those who didn’t. The…
A Russian politician was arrested in parliament in the middle of a session on Wednesday in connection with several murders, an official and news reports said. Rauf Arashukov, a 32-year-old senator representing the Karachayevo-Cherkessia region…
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has asked for a NAFTA review of a Trump administration tariff on solar panel cells, saying the 30-per-cent charge is illegal and unfair. The Liberal government considers the latest trade…
A high school student from Covington, Kentucky, sued the Washington Post for defamation on Tuesday, claiming the newspaper falsely accused him of racist acts and instigating a confrontation with a Native American activist in a…
Theresa May has suffered another significant defeat to her Brexit plan, after MPs voted on Friday to reject her withdrawal agreement by a majority of 58. On the day the UK had originally been due…
North Macedonia moved a step closer to Nato membership on Wednesday, signing accession papers after resolving a long-running name row with Greece, whose own region in the north of the country is called Macedonia. Nato Secretary…
Climate change can seem like an impossible problem to tackle. If entire countries can’t figure it out, then how can individual people? But part of the problem for larger entities trying to tackle climate change…
France is to recognise anti-Zionism, the denial of the state of Israel, as a form of anti-Semitism in response to a surge in acts against Jews not seen “since the Second World War”. Emmanuel Macron,…
Rising interest rates and tough new mortgage rules have achieved what Canadians themselves couldn’t: A halt to relentlessly rising debt levels. But the flipside of this new-found fiscal responsibility is slowing consumer credit. Statistics Canada…
Robert Kraft, one of the most powerful figures in US sport, has been charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution. Mr Kraft, the owner of Super Bowl winners New England Patriots, is one of 25…