An unusual contender for the Christmas No 1 is released today.Thirty years ago the pop group The Christians released a song to support British hostage John McCarthy kidnapped for five years in Lebanon.
Today they...
At least 60 people were killed and dozens more injured after a petrol tanker overturned and exploded in northern Haiti.Late on Monday, the truck overturned in the coastal city of Cap-Haitien and exploded in...
More than 100 former members of the Afghan security forces and others have been killed since the Taliban takeover in August, with most of the killings allegedly at the hands of the hardline Islamist...
Pfizer has said its experimental COVID-19 pill appears to be effective against the Omicron variant. The company said on Tuesday that final analysis of its 2,250-person study confirmed the pill, called Paxlovid, has promising...
It's been another turbulent year as coronavirus and the government's handling of the pandemic dominated the headlines in 2021 - while the Royal Family once again featured heavily.Whether it was the emergence of new...
The husband of a Belarusian opposition leader has been jailed for 18 years by a court in the country.Siarhei Tsikhanouski was charged with organising mass unrest and inciting hatred, among other offences, in a...
A critical part of Antarctica's "Doomsday glacier", so called for the threat its melting would pose, is expected to change dramatically in the next 10 years, scientists have warned.Thwaites Glacier is a river of...
"It's not rocket science" is a phrase usually used to suggest that a task or concept is not actually so difficult but fairly simple to do or understand.But a new study suggests aerospace engineers...
