Global brands suspend YouTube and Google advertising after it was placed alongside videos paedophiles exploited   Big brands are pulling advertising from YouTube and Google after their ads were found to be displayed against content being exploited by paedophiles. Despite YouTube promising to take an “even more aggressive stance” against ...

President Sisi pledges extreme force in revenge for Egypt’s worst atrocity Egypt was reeling on Saturday from the worst atrocity it has suffered in recent years, with officials putting the death toll from the bomb and gun assault on a Sinai mosque at 305. The figure includes 27 children. A ...

What if there were a new leader of her Christian Democrat movement with a more sceptical view of the value of freedom of labour? The departure of “mutti”, or “mummy”, as the Germans like to call their head of government, would, you’d imagine, be bad for Europe, and for Germany ...

Zimbabwe’s ongoing crisis descended into outright chaos on Sunday after president Robert Mugabe failed to announce his resignation as widely expected in a national address on live television. Instead, in a rambling 30 minute address, Mugabe offered no concessions to his critics, the tens of thousands who marched calling for ...

  Soldiers and armoured cars block roads to government offices in Harare Zimbabwe’s military said it had seized power in a targeted assault on “criminals” around President Robert Mugabe who were causing social and economic suffering, but gave assurances the 93-year-old leader and his family were “safe and sound”. Zimbabwean ...

  NORTH Korea has warned that “nuclear war may break out at any moment” due to “reckless moves of aggression” from the US, the hermit kingdom has stated.   KCNA, Kim Jong-un’s state-controlled media mouthpiece, has launched a renewed threat of annihilation to the world in response to joint military ...

Rescuers battle to find survivors trapped under collapsed buildings after the 7.3 magnitude quake   More than 200 people have been killed in Iran and Iraq after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the border region between the two countries, state media said. Iranian state television said that at least 200 ...

If a conflict between North Korea and the United States suddenly broke out, U.S. troops in South Korea would be “outnumbered” and undersupplied, warns Lt. Gen. Jan-Marc Jouas, the former deputy commander of U.S. Forces in Korea. “The 28,500 U.S. Armed Forces personnel in South Korea are vastly outnumbered by North Korean forces, ...

A KILLER pig disease which could spread to China and cripple its economy has sparked fears a ‘global’ crisis with reports SIX countries in the European Union have already detected cases of the deadly virus.   Up until now, China has managed to remain largely unscathed by the African swine ...

  LONDON — A huge leak of financial documents revealed by a group of about 100 media organizations on Sunday provided deep insights into some of the mechanisms used by top politicians and celebrities to escape paying taxes. Offshore funds are often used to avoid paying high taxes, and their use ...