The children, some just babies, all exhibited signs of "severe allergic shock" about an hour after they were given a second round of measles vaccinations in the north-western province of Idlib on Tuesday. Many suffocated to death as their bodies swelled, said ...

Police in Thailand are examining CCTV footage believed to show two British tourists leaving a bar – shortly followed by an Asian man - just hours before their battered bodies were discovered on a beach. Officers said they wanted to locate an “Asian-looking” ...

Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola confirmed today that Manchester United wanted to buy a number of his players this summer but said that the Old Trafford club couldn't afford them and they didn't want to leave for the Premier League anyway.

The future of the National Health Service was thrust to the forefront of the Scottish independence campaign following claims that hospitals would face a funding black hole of up to £450m in a separate nation. The papers, which were submitted last month to ...

Thai Police have reviewed CCTV cameras near the beach in Koh Tao where the bodies of British tourists David Miller and Hannah Witheridge were found. Cameras shows what police said were the two victims walking together hand-in-hand. They said a man ...

The process of rehabilitation has already begun. The Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been cleared of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, who died behind the locked door of a toilet at his home in South Africa last year. He was convicted of ...

Our assessment of the situation right from the beginning has been that this is an example of intimate femicide – a man is responsible for killing his intimate female partner. The typical picture of this is when a licensed male gun owner kills his female partner in ...

It will be a battle of wits as two of Africa giants Cameroon and Cote d' Ivoire clash at the prestigious Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé today, in the second match of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

U2 have given away their first album in five years for free to 500 million iTunes customers. The Irish rock band performed live at Apple's iPhone 6 launch in California, where the surprise news about their record was announced.

THE cockpit of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was riddled with "high energy objects" when the Boeing 777 broke up over eastern Ukraine, according to the first expert report on the aircraft's fate. Share. Go To. Comments. The preliminary findings of the Dutch ...

A Nobel Prize winning economist has warned Scots to be “afraid, be very afraid” if Scotland goes independent, claiming voters have been “badly misled” by Alex Salmond's rhetoric on Scottish currency post-independence. In an opinion piece in The New York ...

1. That's a picture of some straws, sent to me by a Scottish nationalist who thought I was clutching at them. Well, after today's TNS poll, showing Yes and No tied on 50 per cent, I no longer am. My analysis is here. I can still hardly believe it, but I think Scotland ...

African Union soldiers raped and sexually exploited women and girls on their peacekeeping bases in the capital, Mogadishu, Human Rights Watch has claimed. Some African Union troops in Somalia sexually exploited or raped women and girls who are ...

Published 05/09/2014 | 17:33. 0 Comments; Share. Jennifer Lawrence was one of the stars to be targeted. Following the publication of dozens of celebrities' private photos by hackers, Apple has said it will introduce new, stricter security measures to keep its ...

Ukrainian forces pounded pro-Russian rebels to the east of the port of Mariupol on Friday, hours before envoys from Ukraine and Russia were expected to announce a ceasefire as the starting point for a wider peace plan. Share. Go To. Comments. Ukraine ...

JOAN RIVERS, the acid- tongued American comedienne who was the first woman to break into the male-dominated world of late-night comedy, died last night after a week in a coma. Share. Go To. Comments. The 81-year-old was put into a medically induced ...

The press have been discussing the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. They stress that it is an awful way to die, that there is no cure, and that health workers are dying despite apparently taking all necessary precautions. More learned writers have been ...

Most arduous household chores have long been labour-free, thanks to technological advances like washing machines and dishwashers. But one task has largely resisted all attempts to remove the need for human effort - vacuuming. The first robotic vacuum ...

Scientists have discovered mushroom-shaped alien-like creatures dredged from the depths of the sea strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania. The two species were called Dendrogramma, after researchers found that they could not be categorised in ...

British vacuum-makers Dyson have unveiled their first ever Roomba-style product: the robotic Dyson 360 Eye, which the company says is no gimmick but a “genuine labour-saving device”. The 360 Eye features tank-style tracks for fluid, continuous movement ...