Britain will pay individuals who suffer any severe side-effects from Covid-19 vaccines under an existing programme, the government said on Thursday, ahead of a rollout of Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine

A top US intelligence official stepped up the Trump administration’s harsh attacks on Beijing on Thursday, labelling China the biggest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since World War Two

Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews have been airlifted to Israel – the first of several thousand waiting to emigrate there in a long-running saga. Most of their community has lived in

Outspoken Hong Kong pro-democracy advocate and media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been refused bail on a fraud charge amid a growing crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous city. Jimmy Lai

Record-high coronavirus infections and hospitalisations have been reported in the US, with fears they will not slow in the run-up to Christmas. On Wednesday, the country recorded its single-worst daily

The US House of Representatives has passed a law to kick Chinese companies off US stock exchanges if they do not fully comply with the country’s auditing rules, giving President

Former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, who led France into the modern era and was a key architect of European integration in the early 1970s, has died at the age

Iran has moved to stop UN inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment under a new law approved by its parliament. The bill would require the government

Oil prices fell on Thursday as producers including Saudi Arabia and Russia locked horns over the need to extend record production cuts set in place in the first wave of

Prominent Hong Kong democracy activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam have been given jail sentences for their involvement in mass protests last year. The trio, all in their

Former President Barack Obama cautioned young activists against using the slogan “defund the police” to achieve changes in policing practices, instead urging them in a new interview to have a

China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon’s surface late on Tuesday in the first mission to retrieve lunar surface samples in 40 years, said the country’s National Space Administration.

Organised criminal networks may be targeting COVID-19 vaccines and could look to sell fake shots, the Interpol global police coordination agency has warned. Interpol, with headquarters in France, said it had issued

At least two people including a baby were killed and up to 15 injured when a speeding car ploughed into a pedestrian area in the western German city of Trier. Witnesses

The United Nations says a staggering 235 million people worldwide will require humanitarian assistance next year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,

Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell faced its first court hearing on Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by environmental and human rights groups in The Hague, the company’s headquarters. As the

Global human rights organisation, Amnesty International says it has documented a series of extrajudicial executions in South Sudan urging the UN Security Council to maintain its arms embargo on the East-Central African country amid “extreme