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,…
An Italian sailing champion turned MP who claimed political work could be done on a boat has resigned after claiming to be victim of a "media lynching" over his frequent absences from parliament. Andrea Mura, 53, an…
Hundreds of young Spanish volunteers have been evacuated from Ghana after a row broke out when an aid project they signed up for via Instagram descended into chaos. Yes We Help, founded by self-styled entrepreneur Yago Zarroca,…
Iran has said that the US must return to the Iranian nuclear agreement before there is any possibility of direct talks as suggested by Donald Trump. The Iranian government was responding to a comment by…
Brussels bureaucrats are drawing up emergency Brexit plans for British cats, dogs and ferrets after Jean-Claude Juncker took a personal interest in how “no deal” could damage the EU’s pet passport scheme. About a quarter…
Italian authorities have broken up two Sicilian gangs who used body-building weights to smash the bones of victims in order to commit insurance fraud, police said Wednesday. Eleven people from the Sicilian capital Palermo have been arrested,…