Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett opened his first Cabinet meeting since swearing in his new coalition government last week with a condemnation of the new Iranian president.

An Egyptian court adjourned until July 4 the case of a hulking cargo vessel that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week earlier this year.

Belgian police say the body of a fugitive far-right soldier who was the target of a huge manhunt appears to have been found.

One man has been killed and another seriously injured after being struck by a pick-up truck at a Pride parade in Florida.

One person has died and another is seriously injured after a vehicle struck spectators at a Pride parade in Florida, authorities said.

Anti-government protesters took to the streets in cities across Brazil as the nation’s confirmed death toll from Covid-19 soared past half a million.

A warehouse in central Moscow holding a reported 15 tonnes of fireworks caught fire on Saturday, sending a huge cloud of smoke and a fusillade of explosions over the area.

John Bercow, the former Conservative MP who became the scourge of Brexiteers as Commons Speaker, says he has switched allegiances to join the Labour Party.

Mr Biden and his wife welcomed Champ to the family after the 2008 US presidential election which saw him become former president Barack Obama's vice-president.

The largest gay pride parade in central Europe took place again in Warsaw for the first time in two years after a pandemic-induced break, and amid a backlash in Poland and Hungary against LGBT rights.

A Hong Kong court ordered the top editor of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and the head of its parent company held without bail on Saturday, in the first hearing since their arrest two days ago under the city’s national security law.

Iran’s hardline judiciary chief won a landslide victory on Saturday in the country’s presidential election.

Afghanistan is racing to ramp up supplies of oxygen as a deadly third wave of Covid-19 worsens, a senior health official said on Saturday.

A 22-year-old man lost his hand and several others were injured during clashes as police tried to break up an unauthorised rave in western France.

The editor of Apple Daily, Kong Kong’s pro-democracy newspaper, has faced court for the first time since his arrest under the city’s national security law.

Plans to have big screens showing the Olympics at six sites in Tokyo have been cancelled as worries grow about the coronavirus pandemic amid one of the slowest vaccine rollouts in the developed world.

A former Indian sprinter who overcame a childhood tragedy to become the country’s most celebrated athlete has died at the age of 91.

30 people were arrested in central London as part of the policing operation for England’s Euros clash with Scotland

The sole moderate candidate in Iran’s presidential election has conceded he lost to the country’s hard-line judiciary chief.

The UN General Assembly has condemned Myanmar’s military coup and called for an arms embargo against the country.

Boeing’s latest version of the 737 Max jetliner made its first test flight on Friday, taking off near Seattle for an expected two-hour trip that the company hopes will signal improving fortunes for its most important plane.

Dozens of women have sued the company that owns PornHub, alleging the adult video website profits from non-consensual content.

A Belgian court has ruled that coronavirus vaccine-maker AstraZeneca had committed a “serious breach” of its contract with the European Union amid a major legal battle over delivery obligations that has tarnished the company’s image.

The Palestinian Authority is calling off an agreement whereby Israel would transfer one million doses of coronavirus vaccines to it in exchange for a similar number later this year.

A federal judge has said he will not allow an Arkansas man arrested after he was photographed sitting at a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Jan 6 US Capitol riot to travel for a classic-car meet.

A Tory MP is facing trial accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008, it can now be revealed.

Covid-19 dropped to the 24th leading cause of death in England last month, new figures show.A total of 333 deaths were due to coronavirus in May, the equivalent of 0.9% of all deaths registered in England, according to the Office for National ...

A Greek helicopter pilot has been charged with the murder of his British-Greek wife, whose death he had initially claimed was caused by burglars during a brutal invasion of their home on the outskirts of Athens.

Italy is to require people who arrive from Britain to do five days of quarantine as well as take a Covid-19 swab test, starting on Monday.

A European envoy to Ethiopia has said the country’s leaders told him behind closed doors that “they are going to wipe out the Tigrayans for 100 years”.

Four people died, one of them a child, when a migrant boat believed to be carrying 45 passengers capsized near Spain’s Canary Islands, Spanish authorities have said.

The double-cheeked embrace that was a customary greeting in France before the coronavirus pandemic saw it largely abandoned as a potential kiss of death is back with a presidential seal of approval.

The UN General Assembly unanimously elected Antonio Guterres to a second term as secretary-general on Friday, giving him another five years at the helm of the 193-member organisation at a time a deeply divided world faces numerous conflicts, the ...

Dominic Cummings appears to call the British Prime Minister a “gaffe machine” in the latest of his sustained war of words with once long-standing ally Boris Johnson.

The millions who have fled countries such as Syria and Afghanistan due to protracted wars or fighting have dominated the UN agency’s tally for years

Fans from abroad were banned several months ago, and organisers are to announce early next week if some local fans should be allowed

A team of technical experts from the European Union are helping Sri Lanka’s government assess the environmental damage caused by the sinking of a container ship that was carrying chemicals and caught fire, the government has said.

She was injured during a silent disco in the garden of a house on Consort Road in Peckham just before 3am on Sunday May 23

A wild brown bear on the loose all night in a city in northern Japan wounded four people, entered a military camp and disrupted flights at the airport before being shot and killed by authorities.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his government to be prepared for both dialogue and confrontation with the Biden administration — but more for confrontation.

Israel has said it will transfer about one million doses of soon-to-expire coronavirus vaccines to the Palestinian Authority in exchange for a similar number of doses the Palestinians expect to receive later this year.

Iranians have begun voting in a presidential election tipped in favour of a hard-line protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

With anti-government protests silenced, most of the city’s prominent pro-democracy activists in jail and many others fleeing abroad, people snapped up copies at newsstands and in convenience stores

US President Joe Biden has signed legislation establishing a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery.

The European Union warned “there is no alternative” to the Brexit arrangements put in place for Northern Ireland, as the UK sought an extension to temporary measures allowing sausages to cross the Irish Sea.

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has become the latest former Trump administration official to launch a political action committee. Mr Pompeo has remained tight-lipped on whether he will be launching a 2024 presidential bid.