After four years as junior partners in the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats on Wednesday closed their final conference before May’s general election in a surprisingly optimistic mood despite dismal poll ratings. The centrist party won almost a quarter of
(Reuters) – Hong Kong pro-democracy protests that brought tens of thousands on to the streets last week dwindled to a few hundred on Wednesday after activist leaders agreed to talks with the government which are all but certain to go
(AFP) At least nine people were killed on Tuesday in pro-Kurdish protests across Turkey against the government’s refusal to intervene militarily against Islamic State jihadists attacking the Syrian town of Kobane, Turkish media reported. Several people were also injured in
(AFP) Shiite rebels rejected a new Yemeni prime minister on Thursday just hours after his appointment, in a blow to hopes of restoring order two weeks after they overran the capital.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants with Islamic State group on Wednesday shot down an Iraqi military attack helicopter, killing the two pilots on board in the second such incident in a week and raising concerns about the extremists’ ability to attack
BAGHDAD (AP) — After two months, the U.S.-led aerial campaign in Iraq has hardly dented the core of the Islamic State group’s territory. The extremist fighters have melted into urban areas when needed to elude the threat, and they have
WASHINGTON (AP) — The economic impact of the Ebola epidemic could reach $32.6 billion by the end of next year if the disease ravaging Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone spreads to neighboring countries in West Africa, the World Bank Group
Read the full text of Nick Clegg’s 2014 party conference speech: Before I say anything else, I’m sure I speak on behalf of all Liberal Democrats when I say that our hearts and condolences go out to the family and
The European Commission approved Britain’s ambitious plan to build its first nuclear plant for a generation, with French and Chinese help, after ruling that it met state aid rules, a statement said on Monday. The Hinkley Point project, to be
Bahrain has rejected claims implicating its Prince Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa in acts of torture after a British court denied him immunity from prosecution over any such allegations. A British judge ruled on Tuesday that Prince Nasser, the king’s eldest
One of the men convicted of murdering the bride of British businessman Shrien Dewani described in chilling court testimony Wednesday how he was asked to set up a hit on the young woman. Mziwamadoda Qwabe told the Cape Town High
The British candidate for European commissioner was today hit by accusations of selling a “fairy tale” as he faced MEPs for the second time. The former leader of the House of Lords opened the second hearing by offering his hopes
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – A ship carrying radioactive concrete that had to shut down its engine in the North Sea after its funnel caught fire was stable on Wednesday and being towed to the northeastern coast of Scotland, the British coastguard
HONG KONG (AP) — When Beijing cracked down on student protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Bobby Yim was among many in Hong Kong who sympathized with the demonstrators and angrily denounced the Chinese government. But 25 years later, his
A marigold and magenta mohawk adorning his shaven skull, Chinese punk rocker Shan Lin has a subversive message in a country that suppresses dissent — a rebel with a cause. A T-shirt sold by the group SMZB set the tone
LONDON (Reuters) – A pioneering cannabis drug developed by British firm GW Pharmaceuticals for treating spasticity in multiple sclerosis has been rejected as not cost-effective in the company’s home market. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which
VIENNA (AP) — Iranian dissidents say that Tehran is still researching nuclear arms at facilities it relocated to escape detention. The Mujahedin-e Khalk, or MEK, cites Iranian government sources it did not identify. It said Wednesday that Iran’s Organization of
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After their summer slide and a September stumble, the San Francisco Giants have that old October swagger back. Every other year, it sure seems to work for manager Bruce Bochy’s boys. Joe Panik scored the go-ahead
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals tagged Clayton Kershaw in the seventh inning for the second straight time, riding Matt Adams’ go-ahead, three-run homer to a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday and a fourth
DALLAS, Texas — On Tuesday Reverend Jesse Jackson held a candlelight vigil in Dallas for Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who was recently diagnosed with Ebola. During the event, Jackson admitted that he thinks the Ebola “crisis” is going
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel fired toward Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon on Tuesday after the Shiite guerrillas set off an explosion along the tense border that wounded two Israeli soldiers, in the most serious incident between the two countries in
(Reuters) After nearly a week in hospital, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States began to receive an experimental therapy initially developed to treat other viral diseases, according to the Dallas hospital where he lies in critical condition.
(AFP) US troops deployed to West Africa to fight the Ebola outbreak could stay up to a year, depending on how quickly the virus can be contained, a top general said Tuesday. The head of the US military’s Africa Command,
MADRID (AP) — Health officials scrambled Tuesday to figure out how West Africa’s Ebola outbreak got past Europe’s defenses, quarantining four people at a Madrid hospital where a Spanish nursing assistant became infected. Determined to contain the spread of the
