Who doesn’t love a good office holiday party? The booze is flowin’, the apps are passin’, and you have a valid excuse to show off that super extra dress that lights you the eff up. Maybe you even have a lurve interest…
Officials and activists in Mali say gunmen have killed more than 40 Tuareg civilians in the south-east of the country. They say the attackers – who were riding motorbikes – shot people dead in several villages in the Ménaka region near the…
Apple is planning a major expansion of its operations across the U.S., including a $1 billion investment in a new campus in Austin, Texas, the company announced Thursday. The plan also includes establishing new sites in Seattle, San Diego, Culver City, as well as…
Huawei Technologies Co. has all but shut down its Washington lobbying operation as the Chinese telecom giant navigates a titanic clash with the U.S. government. The company now keeps a three-person skeleton staff at its office on 15th Street, a few blocks from…
Crude oil production will be cut by 1.2 million barrels per day from January 2019 for an initial period of six months. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC oil producers made the agreement in Austria’s Vienna on Friday….
Michael Cohen, the former lawyer to Donald Trump who once said he’d take a bullet for the president, has been given a 36-month prison sentence. He is the first member of Mr Trump’s inner circle to be jailed over the special counsel’s…
A dog is for life, not just for Christmas – so the famous slogan goes. It’s certainly the case in Germany, where a temporary ban on new adoptions aims to cut short any plans to give an animal as a Christmas gift….
A bus plunged off a bridge in China, killing at least 13 people on board after a passenger appeared to attack the driver, video released to Chinese media shows. A search and rescue operation was launched on the Yangtze river near Chongqing in…
Theresa May is meeting European leaders and EU officials on Tuesday for talks aimed at rescuing her Brexit deal. She is holding talks with Dutch PM Mark Rutte and Germany’s Angela Merkel after postponing a Commons vote on the deal. The UK…
Japanese prosecutors have charged former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn with financial misconduct, accusing him of under-reporting his pay package over a five-year period. He has also been re-arrested on further allegations of under-stating his pay, which is likely to keep him in…
The European Court of Justice has ruled the UK can cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members. The ECJ judges ruled this could be done without altering the terms of Britain’s membership. A group of anti-Brexit politicians argued…
The special counsel investigating alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 US election will not be pursuing a jail sentence for former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Mr Flynn has admitted lying to the FBI. But in a memo, Robert Mueller said Mr…
As former President George H.W. Bush is being laid to rest, his service dog Sully is among those mourning the 94-year-old’s death. Sunday night, family spokesman Jim McGrath shared a photo of the yellow Labrador retriever sleeping next to Bush’s casket. He wrote,…
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has denied rumours that he had died and had been replaced by a lookalike. Some people thought he had been “cloned”, but “it’s [the] real me, I assure you,” Mr Buhari said. Rumours that he had been replaced…
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has denied rumours that he had died and had been replaced by a lookalike. Some people thought he had been “cloned”, but “it’s [the] real me, I assure you,” Mr Buhari said. Rumours that he had been replaced…
Beijing will “reduce and remove” the 40% tariffs it places on US cars imported into China, US President Donald Trump has said. China has not commented on President Trump’s announcement, which he made on Twitter without providing details. The move, if confirmed,…
US President Donald Trump and leaders from Canada and Mexico have signed the successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). The revised deal has been renamed as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. Renegotiating Nafta was a key pledge of…
US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in relation to the Russia inquiry, US media report. Mr Cohen admitted misleading lawmakers about a Trump real estate project in Russia, say reports. He appeared unexpectedly…
Kenyan police have fired warning shots at anti-corruption officers to help two colleagues accused of bribery to escape from detention, Kenya’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) said. The detained officers were being investigated for allegedly demanding a bribe from a foreigner, EACC…
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived for a one-day working visit in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and the birthplace of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency. He addressed the troops deployed to the front line to fight the militants who are…
