Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has pledged to make the country's smoggy skies blue again and "work faster" to address pollution caused by the burning of coal for heat and electricity. His words to delegates at the opening of the annual National People's ...

China is to increase its military spending by around 7 per cent this year, its government has announced – less than the 10 per cent by which Donald Trump has vowed to grow the US military budget. The slowdown in defence spending in China reflects what ...

You could have called it the crowning glory of a fine debut campaign at Manchester United, except there is still more to come. Zlatan Ibrahimovic so fittingly scored the late winner against Southampton to claim a trophy in the League Cup as well as his ...

Leicester City have sacked their manager Claudio Ranieri following a disastrous Premier League campaign that has seen the Foxes struggle for both form and results. With just five league wins to their name this season, the English champions currently ...

Three of the seven planets found circling the TRAPPIST-1 dwarf star appear to be rocky in nature and to host surface temperatures capable of sustaining liquid water and, therefore, oceans. By extension, this means that their atmospheric conditions ...

US states are making a stand after President Donald Trump's decision to rescind federal guidance that said transgender pupils should be able to use school toilets and changing rooms that match their gender identity. New York's top lawyer criticised the ...

Malaysian police have named a North Korean diplomat they want to question in relation to the murder of Kim Jong-un's estranged half-brother. Chief Khalid Abu Bakar said that 44-year-old Hyon Kwang Song, a second secretary at North Korea's embassy, ...

Sweden's American embassy has taken to Twitter to poke fun at Donald Trump, after the US leader appeared to invent a terrorist attack in the country during a campaign-style rally in Florida. "We've got to keep our country safe," the President told ...

Sweden's American embassy has taken to Twitter to poke fun at Donald Trump, after the US leader appeared to invent a terrorist attack in the country during a campaign-style rally in Florida. "We've got to keep our country safe," the President told ...

Pakistani forces have killed and arrested dozens of terror suspects in sweeping overnight raids after a suicide bombing by the Isis group killed 75 worshippers at a famed Sufi shrine in the country's south. The terror attack - Pakistan's deadliest in ...

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho revealed on Thursday night that his players were cracking so many jokes in the dressing room before the Europa League tie with Saint Etienne that he knew they were going to be off their game when the match ...

Donald Trump has reaffirmed America's long-standing "one China" policy in a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, potentially alleviating concerns about a major shift in Washington's relations with Beijing. The White House and China's state ...

Donald Trump fired Sally Yates after she refused to comply with his executive orders on immigration, making him only the second President in US history to dispense with his Attorney General. The other was Richard Nixon, eight months before he was ...

donald-trump-4.jpg US President Donald Trump reads an executive order withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership prior to signing it in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, January 23, 2017. Trump signed the decree Monday, ...

donald-trump-4.jpg US President Donald Trump reads an executive order withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership prior to signing it in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, January 23, 2017. Trump signed the decree Monday, ...

Trump-Getty.jpg President Donald Trump speaks at the CIA headquarters on January 21, 2017 in Langley, Virginia. Olivier Doulier/Getty. President Trump used his first full day in office to wage war on the media, accusing news organisations of lying ...

Premier League leaders Chelsea have been rocked by the furious row between striker Diego Costa and manager Antonio Conte, with the Premier League's top goalscorer now considering his future at the club following an offer from China. As reported by The ...

'It's nuts. I feel like crying right now. I didn't think that it was going to be that emotional,' she says about leaving the White House. Maya Oppenheim · @mayaoppenheim; Thursday 12 January 2017 10:00 BST ...

donald-trump-jared-kushner.jpg Donald Trump with son-in-law Jared Kushner during an election night party at a hotel in New York. AFP/Getty Images. Donald Trump's son-in-law is to shed a raft of positions and shares to avoid potential conflicts of ...

james-r-clapper.jpg Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. told the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 5 that Russia meddled in the US election through hacking, propaganda and fake news Matt McClain/The Washington Post.