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Doctors have begun a trial of a simple saliva test that aims to spot the top 10% of men who are most at risk of developing prostate cancer. One in eight men develop prostrate cancer at some point in...

President Donald Trump said “excitement is in the air” in Singapore ahead of his meeting with Kim Jong Un. North Korean state media heralded the summit as “a changed era” for Washington and Pyongyang. Preparations for...

Donald’s Trump’s chief economic adviser said the US pulled out of a G7 communique because the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, “stabbed us in the back” and accused the leader of one America’s most important allies of...

Speaking in a BBC documentary that will be aired on Saturday, called Germaine Bloody Greer, and reported in the Sun and the Mirror, she says: “Someone like Beyoncé – who I think is a fantastic musician,...

Former US President Bill Clinton’s first novel, written with thriller author James Patterson, features a classical music-loving, vegetarian female assassin from Bosnia and Herzegovina as a main character. Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s new novel ‘The...

When Canopy Growth opened its first cannabis factory in an old chocolate plant near Ottawa four years ago, it did so predicting a bright future. Canadahad already legalized medical marijuana, and Canopy predicted full legalization for recreational...

Rarely in modern in history has there been a summit with higher stakes and greater uncertainty over its outcome than the planned meeting in Singapore a week from now between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump. On one...

The California judge in the Stanford sexual assault case has been recalled from office by local voters, an extremely rare outcome in the US court system and a major victory for activists who waged a two-year campaign against...

At least 25 people, including three children, have been killed and nearly 300 injured on Sunday in the most violent eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano in more than four decades, officials said. Fuego volcano, whose name...

Millions of people have been left unable to pay for goods and services in shops, petrol stations and railway stations across Britain and Europe after an unprecedented crash in Visa’s payment system. Shoppers and travellers were unable to...