Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to open the closed town where Russian scientists say they developed Novichok, the nerve agent at the centre of a poisoning row with London. Britain has said Russian-produced Novichok was…
Eleven boys from a football team, who were rescued from a flooded Thai cave in a drama that gripped global audiences, took their first steps on Tuesday to be ordained as Buddhist novices in a ceremony…
Passengers on board a duck boat which sank on a Missouri lake, killing 17, were told not to put on their lifejackets, according to one woman who lost nine relatives. Tia Coleman, from Indiana, described…
Elon Musk came under fire on Sunday after launching an extraordinary and baseless attack on a British diver who masterminded the successful rescue of 12 young Thai footballers, falsely calling him a “pedo” on social…
Saint Tropez’s famed Pampelonne beach “is losing its soul”, has warned Brigitte Bardot, the actress who put it on the map in the 1950s, amid a bitter row over the rights to cater to the…
The European Union and Japan have signed a free trade deal that will create the world’s largest open economic area. It will also hand Donald Trump’s growing band of domestic critics yet more ammunition by…
A Canadian woman is taking her nephew to court over a CA $1.2 million (£690,000) lottery jackpot win, announcing “Tyrone is getting nothing from me” as the pair were presented with the over-sized cheque. Barbara Reddick,…
Spain’s conservative Popular Party (PP) appeared to be lurching to the right on Saturday after choosing a 37-year-old hardliner as its new leader. The opposition party picked Pablo Casado as its new chief less than…
An emergency descent by an Air China aircraft after cabin oxygen levels dropped has been linked to a co-pilot smoking an e-cigarette during the flight, state media said on Friday. The state-backed Air China Boeing 737 aircraft was flying to the Chinese…
A police sniffer dog who has found record amounts of illegal drugs has been moved from her post after one of Colombia’s biggest drug gangs put a bounty on her head. Sombra, which means Shadow in English,…