US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has said she is "honoured and humbled" to be President Trump's pick for a pla...

The German Research Vessel Polarstern has sailed back into its home port after completing a remarkable expedition to the...

North Korea held a rare night-time military parade on Saturday, attended by leader Kim Jong-un. The parade marked the 75...

Donald Trump is due to host a public event at the White House shortly - his first since being ill with coronavirus. The p...

Kyrgyzstan's former president has been rearrested as the country's incumbent leader tries to shore up his power after da...

US President Donald Trump has refused to take part in a virtual TV debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden. The commis...

The FBI says it has thwarted a plot to abduct and overthrow Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Mrs Whitmer ...

Two ex-British alleged Islamic State (IS) suspects have been charged in the US with terrorism offences over the killing ...

A North Korean diplomat who disappeared in Italy has defected and is living in South Korea, a lawmaker says. Jo Song-gil,...

Two scientists have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the tools to edit DNA. Emmanuelle Charp...

Medical experts are questioning Donald Trump's decision to greet supporters in a drive-past outside the hospital where h...

Members of the LGBT community have been making #ProudBoys trend on social media by posting images of gay pride and pictu...

Protests have erupted in Kyrgyzstan over allegations of vote-rigging in Sunday's parliamentary election. The capital Bish...

One in 10 people around the world may have contracted Covid-19, the World Health Organization said, at a special meeting...

Sir David Attenborough has called on world leaders to do more to protect nature. He made his plea as 65 heads of state an...

US President Donald Trump will reportedly nominate Amy Coney Barrett, a favourite of social conservatives, to be the new...

A grand jury has charged one police officer over the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor at her home in the US state of Ken...

A former British diplomat is under investigation for allegedly selling information to undercover Chinese spies, a Whiteh...

US President Donald Trump has denied downplaying the seriousness of Covid-19, despite admitting in a recorded interview ...

The family of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, have agreed a multimillion...