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A suicide bombing at a police headquarters in the Indonesian city of Surabaya on Monday was carried out by a family of five riding on two motorbikes, police say. It came after another family carried out bomb attacks on three churches on Sunday,...
Emmanuel Macron will become on Thursday only the second sitting French president to win the prestigious Charlemagne Prize for offering a “vision of a new Europe”, and Germany’s Angela Merkel will deliver the official speech ...
Cambridge Analytica has been ordered to turn over information it has on US citizen David Carroll by the UK's data protection watchdog. The data demand stems from legal action by Prof Carroll, who wants to know what information the firm holds...
The organisation that decides the Nobel Prize for Literature has said it will not announce an award this year, after it was engulfed in a scandal over sexual assault allegations. The Swedish Academy has been in crisis over its handling of al...
The White House has blamed a "clerical error" for a typo in a news release stating that Iran "has" an ongoing nuclear weapons programme. It should actually have read "had" - in the past tense - administration of...
More happy news has been announced for Prince William, who welcomed his third child with Princess Kate Monday. William, 35, has been asked by his brother, Prince Harry, 33, to be best man at his upcoming wedding to M...
MPs have urged Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to speak to them after evidence given by his chief technology officer was deemed unsatisfactory. A parliamentary committee said Mr Schroepfer had failed to fully answer 40 points put to him as ...
Kim Jong-un will on Friday become the first North Korean leader to cross into South Korean territory since the end of the Korean War in 1953. In newly announced details, South Korea said President Moon Jae-in would personally meet Mr Kim at ...
A cinema in New Zealand has banned people from wearing pyjamas, onesies and dirty boots to screenings, in a move designed to raise dress standards. Hawera Cinemas said in recent months it had seen an increasing number of patrons attending in...
Coffee chain Starbucks is to close more than 8,000 company-owned branches in the US for an afternoon next month to carry out "racial bias" training. The aim is to prevent discrimination in Starbucks stores. The move comes after th...
A mission to take children out of poorly-run orphanages could be something from a Harry Potter plot. But that is the goal of a charity founded by JK Rowling. The charity, Lumos, works with governments in countries like Moldova and Ukraine t...
2nd trailer for the female-led 'Ocean's 8' released...
Having as little as one alcoholic drink a day could shorten your life, according to a major new study. An analysis of 600,000 drinkers found that drinking five to 10 alcoholic drinks a week was likely to shorten a person's life by up to six ...
While Facebook desperately tightens controls over how third parties access its users' data - trying to mend its damaged reputation - attention is focusing on the wider issue of data harvesting and the threat it poses to our personal privacy. ...
A fed-up pair of artists took to Twitter to collect quotes and illustrate imagined portraits of bosses who refuse to pay creatives for their work. ‘Hi Bryan, could you write something up for me really quickly?’ This is a request I somet...
A woman shot and wounded three people at YouTube's headquarters in Northern California before killing herself, police say. US media have named the suspect as Nasim Aghdam and said the incident is the result of a domestic dispute. A 36-...
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The White House has criticised China after it imposed retaliatory tariffs against the US on a range of goods, including pork and wine. Beijing has introduced duties of up to 25% on 128 American imports following President Donald Trump's deci...
Airbnb is to start sending the Chinese government information about customers who book accommodation in China. Data shared with the authorities will include passport details and the dates of bookings. Hosts listing accommodation in China wi...