It will now need to be approved by the House and then signed into law by the president to bring the longest shutdown in ...

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

The spokesperson for Delhi City Police, Sanjay Tyagi, has told the BBC the explosion happened in a Hyundai i20 car. He added ...

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

British journalist Sami Hamdi is set to be released from US custody two weeks after he was detained by immigration ...

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 ...

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 ...

A final version of a bill to end the US government shutdown has just passed the Senate with a 60-40 vote. Lawmakers are now one step closer to ending the longest shutdown in the country's history. The ...

The world must "defeat" climate denialism and fake news, Brazil's President Lula da Silva tells UN climate summit.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimates fully reversing the two-child benefit cap could take 630,000 children ...

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