Twitter says its internal controls have been allowing it to weed out accounts being used for the "promotion of terrorism" earlier rather than responding to government requests to close them down.

Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer who is widely credited with helping prevent a nuclear war with the United States, has died

A British cyclist set a new world record Monday by travelling around the globe in 79 days -- beating the fictional exploits of Phileas Fogg

Britain suspended its training programme for military in Myanmar due to the violence in Rakhine state, a British government spokesman says.

The top official at Britain's Brexit ministry quit yesterday to start working directly for Prime Minister Theresa May, in what opposition

Britain downgraded its terrorism threat level to severe from critical yesterday, after police made a second arrest in

The White House pushed back Saturday at a European suggestion it was softening its stance on the Paris climate accord, insisting Washington will withdraw from the agreement unless it can re-enter on more favorable terms.

Bangladesh boasts as the world’s number two garment exporter. Every third European has a t-shirt made in Bangladesh on his back. Every fifth American wears jeans manufactured in Bangladesh. But this is not a story of how many million pieces we export. This is a story of the invisible price we pay every time a jeans rolls out of a factory in Bangladesh. The western buyers little know how much water, that precious resource, was used to wash and dye his shirt. The figures are mind boggling.

British police arrested an 18-year-old man in the southern port of Dover yesterday in a "significant" development in

Fewer children are dying before their fifth birthday and although humans are living longer than ever before, one in

A knife-wielding man attacked a soldier in Paris yesterday, the latest assault to raise questions over whether France's

London Bridge attack (June 3, 2017): Three men wearing fake suicide vests mow down pedestrians with a van at a

Russia, Iran and Turkey yesterday agreed a deal to jointly police a fourth safe zone around Syria's Idlib province as

Russia yesterday began major joint military exercises with Belarus along the European Union's eastern flank -- a show of strength that

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, in a flagship speech yesterday, declared the "wind is back in Europe's sails" after

A German court yesterday said it had dropped a case against a 96-year-old former medical orderly at the Auschwitz death camp because

Turkey has signed a deal for its first major weapons purchase from Moscow to buy S-400 missile defence systems, both sides

British MPs yesterday voted in favour of a bill to end Britain's EU membership, a key moment for the government's Brexit strategy.

The controversial trial of staff from Turkey's main opposition newspaper resumed yesterday in a case seen as a test for press freedom

German authorities believe the Islamic State group holds some 11,100 blank Syrian passports that can be completed with any