World

Throughout seven years of war, the Kurds of Syria’s north have been a wildcard. Their loyalties have remained uncertain and their push for autonomy buffeted by a raging conflict that has consumed almost all before it. As...

Hundreds of thousand of people in more than 90 countries are expected to take part in demonstrations this weekend to protest about the failure of politicians to tackle the global environmental crisis. Organisers say more than...

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has voiced doubts about claims that far-right mobs chased non-Germans during recent violent demonstrations in Chemnitz, clashing directly with Angela Merkel’s version of events. Hans-Georg Maaßen said in an...

Probiotics, hailed by some as a cure for all kinds of digestive ailments and recommended by many GPs alongside antibiotics, may not be as universally beneficial for gut health as previously thought. The gut microbiome is the sum...

House of Fraser’s website could reopen as early as next week after the troubled department store chain struck a deal with its warehouse operator that will mean the closure of one of its warehouse sites before...

The US justice department has charged an alleged North Korean spy for helping to perpetrate cyber-attacks against the National Health Service that saw operations cancelled, ambulances diverted and patient records made unavailable following a worldwide hack in 2017...

Russia has come under a sustained barrage of almost universal condemnation as nations lined up at the UN security council in New York to decry its role in the Salisbury chemical weapons attacks. A day after the...

BOSTON — She stood before Democratic activists Wednesday morning and minced no words. “This is a tribal and parochial place, and this hasn’t always been my home,” Ayanna Pressley said, explaining some of the hurdles she...

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, is testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the moderation of online content. The hearing has taken a more political tone than a Senate hearing earlier in the day,...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans and Democrats credited Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday for efforts they have taken to rid their sites offoreign meddling, in a stark shift from the harsh criticism that they have leveled at...