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Tropical Cyclone Oma strengthened to category 3 overnight and was expected to come close to the coast and maybe even make landfall.

Study of trial at New Zealand firm finds staff were both happier and more productive

About 200 bishops, the heads of Catholic Conferences from around the world, and prominent clergy, are set to gather in Rome at the Vatican to begin an unprecedented summit on clergy abuse.

Trump administration officials advocated for a plan to build dozens of nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia, according to a report by House Democrats.

A Spanish warship tried to order commercial shipping to leave anchorages in British waters near Gibraltar, but was challenged by the British navy and sailed away, Gibraltar said, the latest example of tension over the strategic port as Brexit approaches.

THE BRITISH people are "not going to be told what to do" by Brussels bureaucrats like European Council President Donald Tusk whose comments on Brexit are symbolic of the European Union's "poisonous mentality", a former aide to Margaret

NIGEL Farage has claimed more than 100,000 people have signed up to the newly launched Brexit Party. But what is the Brexit Party and why has Mr Farage backed the party for election in May?

The EU has hailed a large rise in the number of migrants flying direct to Europe to file asylum claims thanks to visa-free travel.

THE Yellow Vest Movement that has dogged Paris, Amsterdam and EU headquarters in Brussels today bled into Britain as police arrested six in a violent clash at London's Whitehall that saw two officers assaulted.

French police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who threw projectiles and set bins on fire in Paris, Lyon and Bordeaux on Saturday, as the 14th straight weekend of "yellow vest" protests took a violent turn in the afternoon.In Rouen in the nor

Yellow Vest member Christophe Chalenon said the anti-establishment movement has

Key chairmen met with the House general counsel in a bid to put any subpoena fight on firm legal ground.

As I suggested earlier on Wednesday, President Trump is likely to deploy U.S. military forces to Colombia before Feb. 23. But where might those forces come from? One possible answer is the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, and the 11th Marine Exped

The war-powers legislation now heads to the Senate, where sponsors have said they are hopeful Republicans and Democrats will vote to support it in coming weeks. Lawmakers lack the numbers, however, to overcome a promised presidential veto. This is a devel

Several French journalists have been suspended for allegedly coordinating online harassment through a private Facebook group.French newspaper Liberation and cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles announced on Monday they have suspended three journalists wor

Government vows action after portraits of a Holocaust survivor, a memorial honouring a Jewish man and a bagel shop were targeted

Britain's new aircraft carrier will go to the Pacific on its first operational mission, Defense Minister Gavin Williamson has revealed.

The trial comes amid escalating cyber war rhetoric between Russia and the West

Two U.S. Navy ships sailed through a disputed island chain in the South China Sea claimed by China early Monday, a move once again likely to draw criticism from China.

Fresh statistics in from Sweden show that 47% of women in the county of rebro are afraid of walking outside alone in the evening, this according to Folkhlsomyndigheten, a branch of the gov