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Theresa May will come under intense pressure from leading Brexiters on Monday to ditch her Chequers proposals and back a free trade deal with the EU instead as she faces a bruising cabinet showdown in the wake...

Alcohol is responsible for more than 5% of all deaths worldwide, or around 3 million a year, new figures have revealed. The data, part of a report from the World Health Organization, shows that about 2.3 million of...

Roads and venues remain unbuilt as the southern Italian city struggles to be the 2019 capital of culture. When the southern Italian city of Matera found out it had been selected as the 2019 European capital of culture, its...

At least 29 people, including children, have been killed in a terrorist attack on a military parade in south-west Iran, responsibility for which has been claimed by both Islamic State and a separatist group. Four assailants disguised...

The Democratic Unionist party cannot be allowed to veto any Brexit deal on the Irish border, Ireland’s deputy prime minister has said. Simon Coveney spoke out after Theresa May disclosed that she was considering the option of giving...

Donald Trump may have dismissed Bob Woodward’s Fear as “a joke”, but readers are showing themselves to be keen to share in the comedy, with more than 750,000 copies of the White House exposé sold in American...

Philippine authorities have begun evacuating thousands of people from the path of the most powerful typhoon this year, closing schools, readying bulldozers for landslides and placing rescuers and troops on full alert in the country’s north....

Volkswagen will stop making the Beetle car next year, ending nearly seven decades of production, the company has announced. The company’s American unit said it would halt output at its plant in Mexico after making two...

As the hundredth anniversary of union with Serbia looms, plans by local Serbs to commemorate this event have angered supporters of Montenegrin independence. The Serbian National Council, the body representing Serbs in Montenegro, on Thursday asked...

Legacy questions about the property of the former Yugoslav People’s Army may remain unresolved after Thursday’s meeting between representatives of the five agreed successor states. Croatia confirmed to BIRN that it planned to participate in Thursday’s...