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Of all the dozens of plants in Jamie Song’s home, it is the heart-shaped, neon green leaves that colonise a wall of his living room everyone wants to know about. “What plant is it?” “How is...

Crowds gathered outside the Metropole hotel as motorcades for US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un left the area with the two leaders after their second historic meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday....

(Reuters) – Polish qualifier Hubert Hurkacz stunned top seed Kei Nishikori 7-5 5-7 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Wednesday. Hurkacz converted six out of seven break points to...

British Prime Minister Theresa May took questions in parliament on Wednesday afternoon ahead of another crucial evening where lawmakers have their say on Brexit and be given their chance to vote on possible alternative routes. You...

You receive an invitation, emblazoned with a question: “A bouncing little ‘he’ or a pretty little ‘she’?” The question is your teaser for the “gender reveal party” to which you are being invited by an expectant...

Amonth after the January transfer window closed, one could almost forget it happened for most Premier League clubs. Very few players made eye-catching transfers and even fewer have gone on to make a significant impact at their new...

The BBC and ITV’s newly announced BritBox – a joint streamingservice – is a bizarre example of British broadcasters deciding “to work together in the national interest”, to borrow a phrase currently popular in Westminster. Facing potentially ruinous...

Ahead of the controversial Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland airing on Channel 4 and HBO next week, the BBC have announced a rival documentary, Michael Jackson: The Rise and Fall, which aims to “reappraise” the global pop star’s...

The R&B star R Kelly is due in court in Chicago on Saturday after being charged with aggravated sexual abuse involving four victims, including at least three between the ages of 13 and 17. In a brief appearance...

Documents posted online Friday appear to be confidential internal Facebookcommunications that reveal new details of the company’s treatment of user data. About 60 pages of un-redacted exhibits from a lawsuit between Facebook and Six4Three, an app developer, were...