The UK faces a “democratic crisis” due to the spread of “pernicious views” and the manipulation of personal data, a parliamentary committee is set to warn. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee has been investigating disinformation and fake news following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.  In its first report it will suggest social media companies should face ...

A group of Pakistani political parties on Friday announced protests demanding new elections following allegations of rigging in this week’s nationwide polls that were won by cricket hero Imran Khan’s party.   “We will run a movement for holding of elections again. There will be protests,” said Maulana Fazalur Rehman from the All Parties Conference, which included the outgoing ruling ...

Tokyo, Jul 27 : The world’s oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died. Chiyo Miyako died Sunday. Her death was confirmed Friday by Kanagawa prefecture, her home state south of Tokyo. Miyako, born on May 2, 1901, became the world’s oldest person in April after Nabi Tajima from Kikai island in southern Japan died at the age of 117. ...

Prime minister in-waiting Imran Khan was provided VVIP security protocol, meant for the head of government, on Thursday.   Senior police officers said he was given the protocol after the PTI won a majority in the National Assembly in the July 25 elections, as he would likely be the next prime minister.  In light of this, security measures were mounted ...

  Train service between Britain and France was hit by the heatwave on Friday, with passengers warned to expect delays and problems with the air conditioning. “It’s a very busy day, it’s the day when everyone leaves on holiday,” a said a spokesman for Eurotunnel, which operates a drive-on train service for cars and trucks going through the Channel Tunnel. ...

Pakistan’s Election Commission on Friday declared former cricket star Imran Khan’s party the winner of Pakistan’s historic third consecutive election of a civilian government, but he didn’t win an outright majority and must form a coalition. After two days of tediously slow vote counting, Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won 114 of 269 seats in the National Assembly with his nearest ...

Donald Trump has been at frequent loggerheads with CNN since taking office, but their feud has become increasingly bitter as the channel’s acerbic White House coverage fuels a boom in viewers.   From reportedly raging that CNN was on the first lady’s television set, to refusing to take questions from the network, to the White House barring one of its ...

  Prime Minister Theresa May is to hold Brexit talks with the Austrian chancellor on Friday before heading off on her summer holiday. Mrs May will also attend a music festival in Salzburg as a guest of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.  She is holding talks with Mr Kurz and Czech PM Andrej Babis as she seeks to win support for her ...

The Trump administration says it has reunited more than 1,800 migrant children with family members by a court-ordered deadline. This includes 1,442 children back with their parents in US immigration custody and 378 others released in “appropriate circumstances”, says a court filing.   But more than 700 children are not “eligible” to be reunited, including 431 with parents no longer ...

The death toll from the dam collapse in Laos could be much higher than the official figure of 27, local people and aid agencies have told the BBC. Few details of the rescue operation are being released by the Laotian authorities – but a BBC team managed to gain brief access to the site and survivors, despite a ban on ...