As tensions between Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren rose earlier this month, Sanders found himself with an unusual ally: President Donald Trump. During a raucous campaign rally in which Trump critiqued some of his Democratic challengers, the president launched into an unprompted defence of Sanders. Warren had accused Sanders of telling her […]

A blueprint the White House is rolling out to resolve the decades-long conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is as much about politics as it is about peace. President Donald Trump said he would likely release his long-awaited Mideast peace plan a little before separate meetings this coming week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]

Uber says it will not follow Surrey’s request to cease operations in the city, setting up a potentially nasty fight over the future of ride-hailing. In a statement on Saturday, the company said “we respectfully decline” the city’s notice, which explained that Uber was in violation of Surrey bylaws requiring all “vehicles for hire” to […]

Two corner shop workers told of how they were violently assaulted by a gang of 20 racist thugs armed with a kitchen knife and several crowbars. Nadeem, 49, and Mudassar Akbar, 38, were walking to their car while working at Hay Convenience Store in Edinburgh when they were ambushed by the group on Thursday evening. […]

A doctor working at a hospital in Wuhan, China — treating patients stricken with the coronavirus — died Saturday morning. Liang Wudong, 62, died after he was infected with Wuhan coronavirus. Wudong retired last year from his position as the head of the ear, nose and throat department at one of Wuhan’s top hospitals, the […]

Irish budget airline Ryanair has said they will be reducing flights and increasing prices to some European holiday destinations ahead of the UK summer holiday season. Ryanair was forced to review its summer 2020 schedule following a delay in the delivery of Boeing 737 MAX planes. The shortfall in MAX planes has led to the […]

The powerful storm will plough into the UK just after the weekend, catapulted in on a super-charged 150mph jet stream. It will collide with a Polar cold front putting Scotland and the north on alert for heavy snowfall while elsewhere hunkers down for severe gales and torrential downpours. The UK faces at least another week […]

Count Alexander von Schoenburg, who is editor-at-large at Bild, Germany’s biggest-selling newspaper, also launched a savage broadside at Angela Merkel, the country’s Chancellor, whom he branding “complacent and impotent”. Mr von Schoenburg, speaking after attending a reception in Berlin at which Mrs Merkel was awarded the American Academy’s Henry Kissinger Prize in acknowledgement for her […]

Melania Trump and Donald Trump stayed silent on social media platforms despite the White House sharing a special anniversary picture but it’s since been branded “awkward” by one Trump critic. The post featured a never seen before picture of the First Lady and US President during the inaugural ball in 2017. It comes as CNN […]

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – The bodies of three U.S. firefighters who died in a plane crash earlier this week in Australia’s remote bushland while battling a fierce wildfire have been recovered, the police said on Saturday as investigators started probe into the accident. A spokeswoman for Australia’s New South Wales state police confirmed the recovery to […]