Britain and the European Union sought on Sunday to strike an elusive trade deal, with failure likely to end with trade in chaos, markets tumbling and a huge economic price to pay.

Opposition candidates have made gains in a parliamentary vote in Kuwait in which two thirds of MPs lost their seats and no women were elected, a result which analysts say could hamper government reform efforts to address a severe liquidity crunch.

Twenty-three people died after being trapped in a mine in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing, the official Xinhua news agency has said, the region’s second such accident in just over two months.

British negotiators have arrived in Brussels for a last-ditch attempt to strike a Brexit trade deal with the European Union and avert a chaotic parting of ways at the end of the year.

Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4 billion people.

The United Arab Emirates was the target of cyber attacks after establishing formal ties with Israel, the Gulf Arab state’s cyber security head said today.

Residents of a coastal township on Australia’s World Heritage-listed Fraser Island were told to evacuate on Sunday as a bushfire approached.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, after UK regulators granted emergency approval and the world's first roll-out begins next week, reports late Saturday said.

Ivory Coast will lift a suspension imposed this week on cocoa sustainability schemes run by Hershey after the US-based chocolate maker committed to paying a premium aimed at combating poverty among farmers.

Scores of hooded anarchists have launched projectiles at riot police, smashed up shop fronts, torched cars and burned barricades during a demonstration in the French capital Paris against police violence and a draft security law.

India’s government has failed to break a deadlock with farmers protesting over agricultural reforms and will meet again, the agriculture minister and union leaders say.

The US State Department on Friday said it has ended five cultural exchange programs with China, calling them “soft power propaganda tools.”

Eighteen miners were confirmed dead yesterday after a carbon monoxide leak at Diaoshuidong coal mine in the city of Chongqing in

In a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s administration, a judge on Friday ordered the US government to reopen to first-time applicants a

President Emmanuel Macron has denied claims that freedoms are being eroded in France under his rule as a “big lie”, with controversy intensifying over a new security law.

Donald Trump’s campaign said it filed a lawsuit in Georgia state court on Friday seeking to invalidate the presidential election results there, the latest in a series of legal challenges aimed at reversing his loss that have so far gone nowhere.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Friday a resolution to a bitter dispute with Qatar seemed “within reach” after Kuwait announced progress towards ending a row that Washington says hampers a united Gulf front against Iran.

President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of most US military and security personnel from Somalia, where they have been conducting operations against the al-Shabaab militant group, the Pentagon said Friday.

Argentina’s Senate passed a tax on about 12,000 of the country’s richest people on Friday, to pay for coronavirus measures including medical supplies and relief for the poor and small businesses.

Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe, top UN officials told the 193-member UN General Assembly on Friday.