US expels 15 Cuban diplomats
US expels 15 Cuban diplomats, saying Cuba has failed to protect US diplomats from mystery acoustic attacks in HavanaThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.You
Veteran Iraqi Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani dies
Image copyright AFP Image caption Jalal Talabani was a key proponent of Kurdish independence The Kurdish leader and former Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, has died at the age of 83, Iraqi state TV has said. Talabani was a veteran of
Las Vegas shooting: Trump dubs killer ‘sick and demented’
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionHow the horror unfolded - in two minutes President Donald Trump has described the gunman who killed 59 people in Las Vegas on Sunday evening as "a sick man, a demented man".
Las Vegas shooting: Did guns use bump-stocks to fire more?
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Bump-stocks can be fitted to standard semi-automatic rifles like the Colt AR-15 US media are reporting that the gunman who killed almost 60 people at a concert in Las Vegas on Sunday may have
Einstein’s waves win Nobel Prize in physics
Image copyright AFP/CALTECH/EPA Image caption Weiss (L) takes half the prize; Barish (C) and Thorne (R) share the other half The 2017 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three US scientists for the detection of gravitational waves.Rainer Weiss,
Blasts at Uganda MPs Bobi Wine and Allan Ssewanyana’s homes
Image copyright AFP Image caption Afrobeats singer Bobi Wine became an independent MP after winning a by-election in June Grenade attacks have taken place at the homes of two Ugandan opposition MPs, including singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi.Mr Kyagulanyi, popularly known as
Tales of heroism in Las Vegas
Image copyright Getty Images People who laid their bodies on top of others to shield them from gunfire.Others who ran back in to the path of bullets to help strangers get out. Concert-goers who carried the wounded on railings and
Myanmar beauty queen ‘dethroned over Rohingya video’
Image copyright Shwe Eain Si Image caption Shwe Eain Si was crowned Miss Grand Myanmar earlier this year A Burmese beauty queen has claimed she was stripped of her pageant title over a video she made on the ongoing violence
Russian opposition leader Navalny jailed again
Image copyright EPA Image caption Alexei Navalny (above in court on Monday) argues that cases against him are politically motivated Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been given a 20-day prison sentence for repeatedly violating a ban on organising public
Brexit: Barnier warns of insufficient progress in talks
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Brexit talks are being led by David Davis for the UK and Michel Barnier for the EU There has not been "sufficient progress" in Brexit talks yet to open trade discussions, EU negotiator Michel