THE United States has warned Iran it is ready to defend its own ships and those of its allies after Tehran said it had seized a foreign oil tanker it claimed was smuggling fuel in the Gulf, further raising the stakes in the region.
THE revelation that new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will earn more than £300,000 a year will leave British taxpayers “disgusted”, campaigners have said.
ISIS has called on its followers to launch a wave of deadly attacks in Tunisia in a propaganda video reportedly filmed in the terror-hit North African country.
THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION on Wednesday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a “public health emergency of international concern,” saying that its recent spread to the city of Goma and into neighbouring Uganda had increased the threat.
IRELAND’s ports are “not ready” for a no deal Brexit, a leading Irish politician warned as he spoke of the major disruption he believes would come if the UK left the EU without an agreement in place.
THE CHERNOBYL nuclear disaster in April 1986 unleashed a huge radioactive cloud 400 times larger than the Hiroshima bomb, the health implications of which are very complicated.
IMRAN KHAN faces mounting pressure as rising prices and tough austerity policies under Pakistan's latest bailout from the International Monetary Fund are squeezing the middle class that helped carry him to power.
A WORLD WAR 3 scenario threatens to unravel in Europe and former US ambassador to Ukraine – John Herbst – warned of the “greatest threat to democracy” that could spark conflict.
NIGEL FARAGE has criticised Five Star Movement for not looking after Italy’s interests and voting for Ursula von der Leyen to be the next chief of the EU Commission.
EBOLA has been declared a crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is a “public health emergency of international concern”. So what does the virus do to the body?
VENICE should be put on the World Heritage UNESCO ’at danger’ list due to excessive tourism including the huge numbers of cruise ships entering the city’s ports, Europa Nostra has said.
ITALY’s deputy Prime Minister and Five Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio has said coalition partner League’s decision not to back Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission President could leave his country “isolated in Europe”.
THE moment Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon 50 years ago is one of the most iconic in human history, yet opinion polls have suggested large numbers of people continue to doubt it actually happened - so what do you think? Real or hoax?
TROPICAL STORM FALCON hit land with tremendous force over the weekend and now it is set to unleash heavy rain elsewhere. But is the storm barrelling towards Japan?
Four years after Russian warplanes began pummelling opposition groups in Syria, the country’s embattled president Bashar Al Assad is relying on a fresh batch of elite ground troops from Moscow to rout his opponents from their last stronghold, according to senior rebel commanders in northern Idlib province. The Russian special forces are now taking an active role in combat, not just directing fighting from behind front lines and providing sniper or artillery fire, the rebels say. "These special Russian forces are now present in the battlefield. The Russians are intervening directly now," said Naji Mustafa, spokesman for the Turkey-backed National Liberation Front...
