French Prime Minister Manuel Valls yesterday issued an appeal to overcome the legacy of slavery, dismissing claims for financial compensation while acknowledging the “horror” of the slave trade.

Ivorians were voting yesterday to determine the fate of constitutional changes the president says will help end years of unrest, with scuffles erupting at several polling stations.

Jeremy Clarkson has said he and his two fellow former Top Gear presenters have been challenged by legal restrictions, nerves and the efforts of over-zealous makeup artists before the launch of the trio’s new multi-million pound television show.

Ministers must act to end mobile signal “not spots” that mean some overseas visitors have better phone reception than people using UK networks, a cross-party group of almost 90 MPs said.

Mark Carney could announce a decision about whether to step down as governor of the Bank of England in 2018 as soon as Thursday, amid a barrage of criticism from Eurosceptic MPs about his approach to Brexit.

Silent and enigmatic, China’s emblematic Terracotta Warriors are at the centre of a bitter row, with patriots and scholars dismissing as impossible theories they could have been inspired by Greek sculpture.

Australia moved yesterday to bar any refugee or asylum-seeker who arrives in the country illegally by boat from ever being able to apply for a visa, even as tourists or for business.

Four Cambodian fisherman freed after a near five year ordeal as hostages at the hands of Somali pirates returned to Phnom Penh yesterday to be reunited with their families.

El Salvador's former president Elias Antonio Saca and six other former officials were arrested early Sunday, the attorney general's office said.

Pakistani police Sunday arrested more than 100 supporters of opposition politician Imran Khan who entered Islamabad days before a planned protest shutdown of the capital, the interior minister said.

About six months ago, people working on hardware and the voice-activated Google Assistant for the Pixel phone started sitting next to each other at the company's Mountain View ...

Donald Trump stepped up his attacks against Hillary Clinton, seeking to exploit the FBI's decision to reopen an investigation into her emails, as America's bruising election campaign heads into its final stretch.