Senior Democrats on Sunday began talking openly about the imprisonment or impeachment of Donald Trump amid fresh allegations linking the President to hush money paid to two women ahead of the 2016 election. The result is a growing sense of crisis as Republicans begin to weigh their chances of political survival. Steve Bannon, the former Trump
From a small office in a leafy corner of south London, a small team of British researchers are directing one of the most dangerous rescue missions on earth. Their work, unfolding far from the quiet streets of New Malden, supports a journey menaced by risk that begins with a dash across the border of North Korea.
SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON (Reuters) – Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States and Germany indicated that a majority of the public were losing trust in Facebook over privacy, as the firm ran advertisements in British and U.S. newspapers apologizing to users. Fewer than half of Americans trust Facebook to obey U.S. privacy laws, according
Kurdish-led forces seized the Isil’s main hub of Hajin Friday, a milestone in a massive and costly US-backed operation to eradicate the jihadists from eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces secured Hajin, the largest settlement in what is the last pocket of territory controlled by Isil, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "After a
The Weinstein Company reportedly plans to file for bankruptcy protection after last-ditch talks to sell the studio collapsed. The company board of directors said late Sunday that bankruptcy is the only “viable option” after negotiations “concluded without a signed agreement,” according to Reuters. The board said it “has no choice but to pursue the only
The doomed 1845 voyage of Sir John Franklin to the Northwest Arctic Passage was one of the greatest disasters of British polar history, ending in the deaths of 129 crewmen. Now the Inuit community where the wreckage of the HMS Terror and its sister the Erebus were found say its curse has been reawakened – and is
TORONTO — Starbucks is closing about 1,100 Canadian locations this afternoon for training on race, bias and inclusion. In a letter to customers, Starbucks Canada president Michael Conway says the training will involve sharing experiences, listening to experts, reflecting on the realities of bias in society and talking about how employees can create public spaces
New York’s skyline was filled with an eerie, pulsating blue light that caused scattered power outages and flight delays on Thursday night, prompting a storm of jokes about an alien invasion on social media. The city’s police department assured residents the source was rather more mundane; a transformer explosion at an electrical plant had produced
VANCOUVER — The city of Vancouver is moving to legalize short-term rental accommodation like Airbnb but operators will only be able to advertise their principal residence. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said Wednesday that new regulations to be enacted next week are designed to protect and free up rental housing in response to a critically low
Japan has chosen the character for ‘disaster’ to symbolise 2018. The public chose the symbol following a series of natural disasters. In July, 200 people died in floods and millions were evacuated from their homes, and mere days later 65 people died in a heatwave that hospitalised more than 20,000 people. The country was also hit by an