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HSBC has said its profits for 2019 fell by 33%, mainly due to its investment and commercial banking operations in Europe...

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has pledged $10bn (£7.7bn) to help fight climate change. The world's richest man said the money w...

A document that appears to give the most powerful insight yet into how China determined the fate of hundreds of thousand...

Dozens of Israeli soldiers have had their smartphones hacked by the Hamas militant group posing as women seeking attenti...

At least 20 people, many of them women and children, have been killed in a stampede in south-eastern Niger, reports say. ...

Two planes carrying Americans from the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess have left Japan. The aircraft chartered ...

France has warned Britain to expect a bruising battle with the EU in post-Brexit trade negotiations. French foreign minis...

Australia's national broadcaster has lost its legal challenge to controversial police raids on its Sydney newsroom last ...

At least 22 people have been killed in an attack on a village in north-west Cameroon, the UN says. Over half those kille...

China has tightened restrictions on movement in Hubei province as it continues to battle the coronavirus. Sixty-million p...

An actress who starred in the Queen of Katwe, a Disney film about a chess prodigy from a Ugandan slum, has died aged 15,...

French police have arrested a woman in connection with the release of a sex video that brought down a political ally of ...

China has announced a drop in new cases from the coronavirus outbreak for a third consecutive day. On Sunday, authorities...

Bernie Sanders is firmly the front-runner in the race to become the Democratic challenger to Republican President Donald...

French police have arrested a Russian activist artist behind the release of a sex video that brought down a political al...

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has called for more regulation of harmful online content, saying it was not for companies ...

A warplane belonging to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has crashed in the northern province of al-Jawf. A coal...

A Chinese tourist has died in France after contracting the new coronavirus - the first fatality from the disease outside...

All the signs emerging from the annual Security Conference in Munich are that the US and the Taliban are perhaps just da...

Thousands of Buddhist monks in Thailand have gathered for prayer ceremonies to honour the 29 people killed in the countr...