World

Kai-Tak, packing gusts of up to 110 kilometres an hour, hit the country's third-largest island Samar in the afternoon and tore through a region devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan four years ago, the state weather service said.

Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world to impose a ban on women driving and its maintenance was seen around the world as a symbol of repression in the Gulf kingdom.

The leaders of the 27 countries remaining in the European Union will give the go-ahead on Friday for the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier to begin talks with London on a transition period and future trade ties with Britain.

Putin said that contacts between Russian officials and members of US President Donald Trump's team during his election campaign had been routine, but had been twisted by Trump's opponents.

If the government loses, that would deal a heavy blow to May less than a week after she struck a deal in Brussels to move onto the next stage of negotiations.

Twenty-seven-year-old Akayed Ullah posted a statement indicating allegiance to ISIS on Facebook before the attack, the Daily Beast reported.

North Korean hackers targeted four different exchanges that trade bitcoin and other digital currencies in South Korea in July and August, sending malicious emails to employees, according to police.

"The rescue teams present in the region have not reported any casualties or damage yet," the head of rescue operations for the Red Crescent told state broadcaster IRINN.

Labour opposition politician Sam Dastyari, a one-time high-profile powerbroker, has been under heavy scrutiny over his relationship with a wealthy political donor associated with the Chinese Communist Party.

On average, a 15.2 death increase per 100,000 middle-aged white people was tied to a one percent vote swing for the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, according to the study published in the journal Social Science and Medicine.

Social Democrats (SPD) leader Martin Schulz, with whom German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives are hoping to form a governing coalition, has put forward the vision for a "United States of Europe" by 2025.

In the Nepal assembly, 165 seats are directly elected and 110 are allocated to parties based on proportional representation.

Two Chinese firms - Hambantota International Port Group (HIPG) and Hambantota International Port Services (HIPS) managed by the China Merchants Port Holdings Company (CMPort) and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority will own the port and the investment zone arou...

The young and dynamic crown prince, known by his initials MBS, used an intermediary to buy the much-sought-after painting of Christ, "Salvator Mundi"

The painting featuring the US president, entitled "President Trump Becomes a Wonder Woman, Unifies the Country and Fights Rocket Man," was one of the top works at a private viewing on Wednesday.

Under pressure from security personnel at Lima's Sergio Bernales hospital, Monica Palomino had to take the body of her dead baby home until she could begin the process of getting a death certificate.