McCain torpedoes Republicans’ Obamacare repeal plan again
Image copyright Getty Images Senator John McCain has said he cannot support his fellow Republicans' latest effort to repeal Obamacare, dealing it a potentially fatal blow.The Arizona senator, who is battling brain cancer, said he "cannot in good conscience" vote
UK Judge Rules Starving Minimally Conscious Patients to Death Does Not Always Need Court Approval
LONDON — A judge in the United Kingdom has ruled that permission from the courts is not necessary when doctors and family members agree that food and water should be withdrawn from a person in a minimally conscious or persistent
US Health Secretary Tom Price’s private air travel probed
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The former Georgia congressman has been tasked by Trump with overhauling the US healthcare system An internal investigation has been opened into Health Secretary Tom Price over his private plane travel on official government
Saudi textbook features image of Yoda with King Faisal
Image copyright Shaweesh/Gharem Studio Image caption Shaweesh said he included Yoda because, like King Faisal, he was "wise, strong and calm" Saudi Arabia's education minister has apologised for the production of a school textbook in which the Star Wars character
James Comey: Protests disrupt speech to Howard students
Image copyright Howard University Protesters shouting "no justice, no peace" have disrupted a speech by former FBI director James Comey to university students in Washington DC.Mr Comey was giving a convocation address at Howard University, a leading historically black college.It
Deep impact
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Brain disease resulting from repeated head impacts was found in 99% of former NFL players' brains donated for examination The suicide of a jailed ex-NFL footballer later found to have had brain disease is renewing
Africa’s biggest modern art gallery opens in Cape Town
Image copyright EPA Image caption The work of South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga is influenced by his background in fashion design Africa's largest gallery for contemporary art from the continent and its diaspora has opened in the South African city
Erdogan protesters beaten and ejected from New York speech
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAnti-Erdogan demonstrators are punched as they are removed from a New York hotel Violence erupted at a New York hotel after protesters heckled a speech by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with
France’s Macron signs labour reforms in law, defying protests
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mr Macron came to power promising to update France's enormous labour code Emmanuel Macron has formally signed an overhaul of France's labour laws, a key platform of his presidency.Thousands of protesters have condemned the reforms,
Syrian activist and journalist daughter ‘murdered’ in Istanbul
Image copyright Orouba Barakat Image caption Orouba Barakat and Halla Barakat's family said they had been "assassinated" A prominent Syrian opposition activist and her journalist daughter have been found dead in Turkey, police say.The bodies of Orouba Barakat, 60, and