Official figures for the fall in GDP during the three months to June have been revised down from 20.4 per cent to 19.8 per cent.

Samuel, a three-year-old Cocker Spaniel from Sittingbourne, Kent, was named the UK’s most destructive pet by retail company SCS after spilling paint all over his owner’s cream carpet.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden clashed in their first debate in Cleveland, Ohio last night.

The United States and Taiwan will work together on infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific region and Latin America, officials said on Wednesday, in an implicit pushback for China’s own massive regional investment plans. Washington is deeply suspicious of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative to build roads, railways and other facilities to link China to Europe, […]

The French president accused Turkey of unacceptable "warlike" rhetoric encouraging Azerbaijan to reconquer Nagorno-Karabakh, as fighting with ethnic Armenian forces in the breakaway territory entered its fourth day on Wednesday. France “remains extremely concerned about the warlike messages from Turkey in the past few hours, which amount to giving Azerbaijan the go-ahead for what would […]

President Donald Trump might have choked on his Egg McMuffin on Wednesday when tuning into his favorite morning show.Fresh from an aggressive debate performance which his campaign chalked up as a victory before it had even happened, Trump most likely tuned into Fox & Friends expecting the kind of sycophantic flattery he’s become accustomed to […]

Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga can be handed over to a United Nations tribunal in Tanzania, France’s top civil court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting his lawyers’ arguments that he should face justice in France. U.N. prosecutors accuse the former tea and coffee tycoon of bankrolling and importing huge numbers of machetes for ethnic Hutu militias […]

Ground controllers say the leak is coming from a Russian module on the International Space Station.

(Bloomberg) — U.S. equity-index futures dropped and European shares fluctuated after an acrimonious American presidential debate highlighted the risk of a contested vote in November. A gauge of the dollar held steady.S&P 500 futures fell as much as 1.3% in the hours after the chaotic sparring between Donald Trump and Democratic hopeful Joe Biden during […]

(Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc will cut as many as 9,000 jobs as Covid-19 accelerates a companywide restructuring into low-carbon energy.The move reflects the challenge facing Big Oil as the pandemic persists, with some in the industry believing the era of demand growth is already over. As the crisis hastens the shift to cleaner […]