It will need to be approved by the House and then signed into law by the president before the government can reopen.

Sam Fender has donated the entirety of his £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to the Music Venues Trust (MVT), which works to ...

Qian had set up the company through which money was embezzled just four years earlier, in her native China. Lantian Gerui, or ...

At least eight people have been killed and another 20 injured, police say, after an explosion in a car near the Red Fort in a ...

At least eight people have been killed and more injured after a car exploded near the Red Fort in Delhi, authorities have ...

Syria will join the international coalition to combat the Islamic State group, marking a shift in US foreign policy in the ...

British-Hungarian author David Szalay has won this year's Booker Prize for his novel Flesh, which the judges described as ...

Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC, following criticism over how a speech the US president made was ...

The former French president was jailed in October for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan ...

A deal aimed at ending the US government shutdown has passed the Senate, paving the way for the record-breaking impasse to be ...

The Prince of Wales has described how he and the Princess of Wales approached telling their children about difficult moments ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new native bee species with tiny horns - and given it a suitably devilish name. Researchers found the Megachile Lucifer while observing a rare wildflower that ...