The Government has confirmed there will be no official move to leave the EU before the end of the year as judges considered the first legal challenge over Brexit. At today’s High Court hearing, Judges Sir Brian Leveson and Mr Justice Cranston agreed a full legal challenge over the decision to leave the European Union will be heard in October. In court, Government ...

Jeremy Corbyn today demanded to be named as a co-defendant in a High Court case against Labour’s ruling body over it automatically including him in the leadership contest. Labour donor Michael Foster launched the legal action after the National Executive Committee voted by 18 to 14 that party leader Mr Corbyn would not need to get the backing of 51 MPs ...

Three people have died in a shooting near a swimming pool in Lincolnshire, police have said. The suspected gunman was among the dead in the shooting near the Castle Swimming Pool in Spalding. Lincolnshire Police, who were called to Pinchbeck Road at about 09:00 BST, said no shots were fired by their officers. Those killed are believed to be two ...

Two suicide bombers tried to ram vehicles laden with explosives through two Yemeni military checkpoints near the government-held port city of Mukalla on Monday, killing at least 10 people, the army and medics said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks near the capital of Hadramout province on the Gulf of Aden, the latest in a series of bombings ...

A tour bus carrying visitors from China burst into flames on a busy highway near Taiwan’s capital on Tuesday, killing all 26 people on board, officials said. The accident took place on the No. 2 national highway in Taoyuan county, south of Taipei, where the island’s international airport is located, the county’s fire and rescue service said in a statement. ...

Ten paramilitary soldiers have been killed in a clash between security forces and Maoist rebels in India’s eastern Bihar state, police say. At least five other soldiers were injured in the battle in Aurangabad district late on Monday. Maoist rebels have carved out strongholds in a number of states in the north, east and centre of India. They say they ...

Police have found a hand-painted Islamic State flag in the room of a young Afghan refugee who attacked passengers on a train in southern Germany with an axe, a state minister said on Tuesday. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said, however, it was too early to say whether the youth was a member of Islamic State or any other militant ...

Cape Town, South Africa – The South African Branch of International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) held their 4th Conversation for peace on the 12th July, 2016 at the Center for the Book. This was a congress of distinguished women who sought the steps to achieve peace actively. This dialogue allowed women from different professions and communities to gather – to ...

Aspiring first lady Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday contained a section strikingly similar to that delivered at the Democratic convention in 2008 by the woman she hopes to succeed in the role. A Trump campaign official suggested the similarity to Michelle Obama’s speech may have been the result of an error by her team of ...

The Philippines’ crime-fighting president says he plans to ask Chinese officials why some Chinese citizens who visit his country are allegedly involved in illegal drugs. President Rodrigo Duterte, who has vowed to end crime within six months of taking office on June 30, also said late Sunday that he would not hesitate to grant presidential pardons to law enforcers accused ...