A sign points to London’s Heathrow Airport in this file photograph. A runway lighting issue at London’s Heathrow Airport has caused delays to a number of early morning flights, the airport said in a statement Wednesday. Airline passengers in the United States and other international airports around the world took to social media to complain of being unable to ...

Somali refugee Ilhan Omar and social worker Rashida Tlaib, born to Palestinian immigrant parents, will be the first Muslim women in US Congress U.S. Democratic congressional candidate Ilhan Omar poses for a group photo with campaign volunteers in Minneapolis. Chicago, Nov 7 : US voters are poised to elect two Muslim women to Congress in the midterm election next week, ...

A Malaysian court is scheduled Wednesday to set a new date for starting the defense phase of the trial for two Southeast Asian women charged with murdering the North Korean leader’s half brother. A High Court judge in August found there was enough evidence to infer that Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, along with four missing North ...

Staring down the potential loss of one-party control in Washington, President Donald Trump declared Tuesday’s election results a “tremendous success” for Republicans as his party maintained its hold on the Senate while Democrats picked up GOP-held seats in the House. Trump waited until late in the night to weigh in on the midterm vote, tweeting a succinct message that overlooked ...

US Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi vowed Tuesday to impose new “checks and balances” on Donald Trump’s administration — but also signaled it would not be all-out war with Republicans after her party seized the lower house of Congress. “Today is more than about Democrats and Republicans. It’s about restoring the constitution’s checks and balances to the Trump administration,” Pelosi told ...

Twenty-one people, including children as young as 12, have been found inside a refrigerated lorry entering the UK. The group, thought to be from Vietnam, were concealed among a load of sparkling water at the port of Newhaven in Sussex on Thursday.   Details of the Border Force operation have only just emerged, but a criminal investigation is under way. ...

Prime Minster Theresa May has formed five new business councils to advise on how to create the best business conditions in the UK after Brexit. Big names on the forums include Tesco boss Dave Lewis, ITV chief Carolyn McCall, entrepreneur James Timpson, and CBI head Carolyn Fairbairn.   Each council will meet three times a year, twice with Mrs May ...

An Afghan official says the Taliban have killed eight police and wounded three others in new attacks on security posts in western Farah province. An insurgent attack on an Afghan border base in Pusht Koh in Farah on Monday killed 20 troops while 20 others were abducted.   A member of the provincial council, Dadullah Qani, says the latest attack ...

Greg Pence, the older brother of US Vice President Mike Pence, won a seat in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday soon after polls began closing in the midterm elections. The 61-year-old businessman and military veteran claimed victory for the Republicans in the district his younger brother once held in Indiana.   Prior to becoming Donald Trump’s vice president, ...

Millions of Americans voted Tuesday, and results have been projected in several races in the US midterms, the critical first nationwide election seen as a referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency. Here is the state of play so far:   – Democrats take the house –   The House of Representatives has flipped from Republican control into the hands of the ...