China has spent billions of dollars to project soft power in Asia but it has struggled to win the hearts and minds of ordinary citizens in parts of the region, a study said Tuesday. President Xi Jinping doubled China’s foreign affairs budget in six years from 30 billion to 60 billion yuan ($8.5 billion) to […]

Chile’s Atacama salt flat may get all the attention when it comes to lithium, but the South American nation is looking to develop two lesser-known deposits of the mineral needed to power a global push into electric cars. Chile’s mining minister, Baldo Prokurica, told Reuters on a trip to the Atacama region the government had […]

With the PM forced to pause his efforts on Tuesday night, Donald Tusk said that he would urge the 27 EU member states to give Britain more time, expected to run to January 31.

(Bloomberg) — Nearly a year after it began looking to ease its hefty debt load, Ferrellgas Partners LP is mired in a dispute with its most important lender and running out of time to turn things around.The second-biggest U.S. distributor of retail propane is tangling with TPG Specialty Lending Inc., which provides a $575 million […]

Turkey-backed Syrian opposition forces seized control of Ras al-Ain on Saturday, the fourth day of an offensive against a Kurdish militia, a senior Turkish official has claimed.

The unnamed 16-year-old admitted to manslaughter after he threw a pushbike into the path of ‘rival’ Michael-Lee Rice’s motorbike outside the Fulford pub in Bristol, causing him to hit a van.

The US and the Taliban were thrashing out elements of a deal to bring a close to Afghanistan’s 18-year conflict at the second day of renewed talks in Doha on Sunday. The US, which invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban in 2001, wants to withdraw thousands of troops and turn the page on its longest […]

Jeremy Hunt had said he would bring the issue to the Commons if he thought there was a majority for reversing the law – saying he personally believed hunting should be allowed.

Adam Bailey from Trent Vale, Staffordshire, was shoved to the ground on Wednesday evening in a brutal attack which left the child with a bloodied nose and neck injuries.

The mob gain on the man in Parliament Square, who was wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat and can be seen trying to grab the placard off him.