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Donald Trump’s tariffs against China are not yet quenching America’s appetite for Chinese goods as China’s trade surplus with the United States ballooned to a new record $31 billion in August. The official data was released hours…

The London-based professor, Joseph Misfud who told former Donald Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos that Russia had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton is missing and he may be dead. Professor Mifsud contacted George Papadopoulos(…

On the defensive over damning accounts of the inner workings of his administration, Donald Trump, set out Friday to discredit the testimony that cast doubt on his ability to lead the United States. A book by investigative journalist…

Alibaba co-founder and chairman Jack Ma plans to retire from the Chinese e-commerce giant on Monday to devote his time to philanthropy focused on education. Ma was an English teacher before starting Alibaba in 1999 and built it into…

Donald Trump on Friday slammed investigative journalist Bob Woodward’s damning portrayal of the inner workings of the US president’s administration as a “scam,” alleging that it includes made-up quotes. “The Woodward book is a scam.…

British Airways  was forced to apologise on Friday after the credit card details of hundreds of thousands of its customers were stolen over a two-week period in the worst ever attack on its website and app. BA Chairman and Chief…

A multi-millionaire aristocrat who caused outrage when he publicly announced his search for a young wife and 'breeder' is still single more than a year on - and has now revealed his efforts to sweeten the deal. Sir Benjamin Slade, 72,…

BORIS Johnson and wife Marina Wheeler are divorcing. In a joint statement the pair said they separated "some time ago" and are now in the process of divorcing.  (The Sun)

Moscow on Thursday said Britain’s claim that the Kremlin bears ultimate responsibility for a nerve agent attack on a former spy in England was “unacceptable”. “For us any sort of accusation regarding the Russian leadership is…

Zimbabwe’s newly re-elected President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly pledged to create billionaires through funds brought in by foreign investments. According to Daily News, Mnangagwa – who was speaking at the launch of Chinese…

US President Donald Trump pledged Thursday to complete a deal on denuclearizing the Korean peninsula together with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, signaling that negotiations remain alive after weeks of an apparent deadlock. “Kim…

Saudi Arabia announced that anyone poking fun online at the government would face five years in jail. The desert kingdom’s public prosecutor launched a crackdown on mockery and satire which he said 'disrupts public order'. A popular…

The Kenyan authorities are to deport a Chinese man for a racist rant recorded in a brief video where he referred to all Kenyans as monkeys, including President Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s immigration department tweeted. Liu Jiaqi was…

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a colonial-era ban on gay sex in India at the centre of years of legal battles. “The law had become a weapon for harassment for the LGBT community,” Chief Justice Dipak Misra said as he…

An Israeli member of parliament has come under fire for saying that Africans have no culture and that Israel should stop African refugees from having children. The Israeli member of Israel’s Knesset or parliament (MP), Oren Hazan…

South Africa entered recession in the second quarter for the first time since 2009, according to data released on Tuesday by the country’s Statistician-General, Risenga Maluleke. The statistics show the economy contracted by 0.7…

Twenty-eight years after her affair with Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky appears not to have forgiven her former boss. Lewinsky on Monday stormed out of an interview in Israel, at a conference after the interviewer asked her a question…

A nursery school director has been sacked after young children were welcomed on the first day of school by scantily-clad pole dancers. Horrified parents watched as young women took turns spinning around the pole like strippers in front…

A russian woman, Yana Anokhina, has admitted to asking her fertility clinic to swap her husband’s sperm for her lover’s while she was undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment which resulted in the conception and birth of a baby boy.…

Uganda opposition member of parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine has arrived in the United States of America for medical treatment. The popular musician turned politician was tortured while in detention…

THE library at Woodgrove Primary School has been turned into a “MakerSpace”. After regular lessons end at around 2pm, pupils sign up for sessions like 3D design, stop-motion film-making and coding for robots. Instructors leave the…

One person died — apparently of a heart attack — and 18 people sought medical help when a plane skidded off a runway in Russia’s Olympic city of Sochi, slid into a river and caught fire during landing early Saturday, officials said.…

Two men have been charged this week with sexually abusing women seated near them on flights to Seattle. The unrelated cases come at a time when the number of sexual assaults reported on planes has increased at "an alarming rate," …

President Donald Trump on Thursday said the Russia collusion investigation headed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is “illegal” as the probe continues to hone in on his inner circle. Trump told Bloomberg News in an interview that…