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TikTok has said it will quit the Hong Kong market after China imposed a new security law on the city. "In light of recent...

A white woman in New York is facing a criminal charge for calling 911 on a black man after he asked her to put her dog o...

Japan's household spending has slumped at a record pace as measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus kept people at...

Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Google and Telegram have all said they are "pausing" co-operation with requests for user in...

A Spanish study has cast doubt on the prospect of herd immunity as a way of tackling the coronavirus pandemic. The study ...

Foreign students will not be allowed to stay in the US this autumn if their universities have moved classes fully online...

African-American Nascar driver Bubba Wallace has sent out a tweet condemning words of "hate from the president of the Un...

Zoonotic diseases - which jump from animals to humans - are increasing and will continue to do so without action to prot...

A statue of the 19th Century US black activist Frederick Douglass has been toppled in New York state. It appears to have...

Vogue Portugal has pulled a recent magazine cover, which mental health experts criticised as "outdated" and in "bad tast...

Greece has banned all but essential travel from Serbia as infection numbers steadily rise in the Balkan country. For a we...

Just after midnight on 30 June, an email dropped into my inbox. It claimed to be from an unknown group calling itself th...

China has warned the UK not to interfere with Hong Kong following the imposition of a new security law, as one pro-democ...

Nick Cordero, a Broadway and TV actor who spent months in intensive care after suffering complications from coronavirus,...

The Louvre museum has reopened in Paris after its closure nearly four months ago due to the coronavirus pandemic. Masks a...

A professor who criticised China's handling of the coronavirus crisis has been detained by authorities. Xu Zhangrun, who ...

Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer whose credits include the "spaghetti" Westerns that made Clint Eastwood a star, ha...

A South Korean court has denied a US extradition request for the man behind one of the world's largest child sexual abus...

Authorities in China have stepped up precautions after a city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region confirmed one case...