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In a verdict that seemed destined to stand as a major milestone in the #MeToo movement against sexual assault, the once beloved actor and comedian Bill Cosby was convicted by a Pennsylvania jury on Thursday of drugging and...

The leaders of North and South Korea have promised after a landmark summit to bring “lasting peace” to the peninsula with a commitment to denuclearisation and to ending decades of hostilities. Speaking at the end of an extraordinary...

Google is updating its YouTube Kids app to improve the control over the videos and channels that can be watched by children. YouTube Kids is a separate app for smartphones and tablets that provides access to...

Facebook’s data privacy problems have had little impact on its profitability as the company posted record revenues for the first quarter of 2018. The company made $11.97bn in revenue in the first three months of the...

Opposition politicians and activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo have pledged to defy repression and step up their protests as the troubled country edges towards elections that have been promised by the president, Joseph Kabila,...

North Korea’s main nuclear test site has partially collapsed under the stress of multiple explosions, possibly rendering it unsafe for further testing and leaving it vulnerable to radiation leaks, a study by Chinese geologists has shown....

The Serbian government’s discarded media strategy draft, which has been obtained by BIRN, planned to bring the state back into the media market through public-private partnerships. The Serbian Information Ministry’s draft media strategy, which was criticised by media...

After some Western European countries banned Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s presidential election campaign rallies, the Turkish leader and his ruling party will hold their first demonstration abroad in Sarajevo. Turkish pro-government daily newspaper Yeni Safak reported that President Recep...

BY Emer O’Toole On 6 December 1989, a misogynist who claimed he was “fighting feminism” shot dead 14 women, mostly engineering students, at Montréal’s École Polytechnique. I won’t use the murderer’s name. These men want us to use...

Ten minutes before half-time on a wild night of Champions Leaguefootball Mohamed Salah did perhaps the best thing so far of the many wonderful things contained in his dreamy first Liverpool season. By that stage Anfield was...