October 2017

Image copyright EPA Image caption Andrej Babis's centrist, anti-establishment ANO movement leads the polls Voters in the Czech Republic are likely to hand power to controversial billionaire Andrej Babis, the country's second-richest man who ran on an anti-corruption platform but

EU leaders have agreed to start preparing for trade talks with the UK - as Theresa May admits there is "some way to go" in negotiations.As expected, her 27 EU counterparts agreed at a Brussels summit that not enough progress

Image copyright EPA Image caption The search for the Malaysia Airlines plane was suspended in January Malaysia has struck a "no find-no fee" deal with a US company to locate the wreckage of downed flight MH370.The government accepted an offer

Image copyright Reuters Image caption North Korea has ramped up its missile testing in recent months CIA director Mike Pompeo has warned that North Korea is on the cusp of being able to hit the US with a nuclear missile.He

Image copyright Getty Images Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in The Lancet has found. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where pollution could account for up to

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Victoria's assisted dying bill has 68 safeguards A landmark assisted dying bill has passed through the lower house of Australia's second-most populous state after a marathon all-night debate.Lawmakers in Victoria discussed the voluntary euthanasia

Photo Credit: Mohamed Benguedda(World Watch Monitor) — Churches in northern Algeria continue to clash with the authorities over permission to hold services in non-religious buildings. Authorities in Tizi Ouzou province—100km east of the capital, Algiers—have said a 2006 law that

Image copyright AFP As President Xi delivered his opening address to the 19th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, 2,280 delegates looked on. But fewer than a quarter of those were women. That's got some people asking whether the party should

Image copyright EPA A Spanish tourist in Italy has been killed by a falling stone fragment in one of Florence's main churches.He was 52 years old and local newspapers said he lived in Barcelona.The stone, said to have supported a