A 15-tonne ball of congealed fat — dubbed Britain’s biggest ever “fatberg” — has been dredged up from a London sewer, utility company Thames Water said yesterday.
Germany’s parliament has launched hearings into the defence ministry’s botched procurement of reconnaissance drones, in a scandal that threatens to damage Chancellor...
The pesticide that killed 23 schoolchildren last week is a nerve poison banned by many countries because of what the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The UN yesterday welcomed Myanmar’s decision to abolish the border security force blamed for many of the atrocities committed last year against Muslims in the Rakhine State.
The Afghan government is ready to sit down with the Taliban in Doha or anywhere in the world for the sake of peace and stability in Afghanistan...
A group of more than 50 Maoist guerrillas ambushed a police patrol in Jharkhand yesterday, killing the district police chief and four others, officials said.
Boris Johnson yesterday publicly raised the prospect of running for a third term as mayor for the first time.
Egypt’s president, accused of fuelling sectarian hatred, promised swift justice yesterday for a deadly attack on minority Shias.
After retiring from a long career at IBM, Spain’s Angel Miralda poured his savings into a small solar farm in the hilly northern region of Huesca...
The Diplomatic Club yesterday hosted and sponsored an event for children from Sunbeam Centre for Excellence for Children with Special Needs.
South Africa’s main opposition Democratic Alliance party yesterday demanded a formal investigation into the breakdown of an ambulance carrying Nelson Mandela to hospital earlier this month.
Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown has tested positive for a banned drug and won’t defend her 200-metre world title this year, Jamaican media reported Saturday.
