MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it expected Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to visit Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin soon, but that no date had yet been agreed. Russia and Turkey are both major players in the conflict in Syria and in September reached a demilitarization deal that staved off a Syrian army offensive against […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan on Wednesday demanded talks with South Korea over a Korean court compensation award against a Japanese company for using forced laborers during World War Two, saying all such claims were settled decades ago. Ties between the Asian neighbors have been frosty since the court ruled in October that Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp should pay […]

Theresa May triggered our formal Article 50 exit notification in March 2017 to fire the starting gun on two years of tough negotiations. Here's what's happened so far. When was Article 50 triggered? As of 12.30pm on March 29 2017, the UK was set on a course to leave the EU by March 29, 2019. The PM sent an official letter invoking […]

The teen – one of the youngest victims of the capital's knife epidemic – was left dying on the road as the gang of men then apparently sped from the scene in Waltham Forest, North East London. Police are today searching for the three suspects responsible for the horror that marks London's fourth killing so far in 2019. A worker […]

Days after a patient in a long-term vegetative state gave birth in an Arizona nursing facility, prompting a criminal investigation and growing concern from other patients’ families, the CEO of the facility has quit. The resignation of Bill Timmons, the longtime chief executive officer of Hacienda Healthcare, was “accepted unanimously” by the board of directors, company spokesman David Leibowitz said in a […]

Vegetarian taxidermist is branded a ‘disgusting murderer’ by animal rights activists – but she says she’s bringing new meaning to ‘lifeless, forgotten animals’ Biology student Kady Rose, 25, from Southern California, has defended her hobby after being slammed online She says she never kills for her art and only uses animals that have died of age or have ended up […]

Toronto police say a woman has critical injuries after she was hit by a vehicle in the city’s east end Tuesday evening. Police said emergency crews were called to O’Connor Drive near St. Clair Avenue East just before 6:40 p.m. with reports of a collision. A police spokesperson said the woman was taken to hospital by paramedics with serious leg […]

Cross-dressing in the Third Reich: WW2 German soldiers don skirts, dresses and even bras as they pose alongside women wearing their uniforms Nazis persecuted anyone they deemed to be a sexual ‘deviant’ – including transsexuals and cross-dressers  Despite this, it seems that donning women’s clothing was popular among the troops, as these photos attest  Soldiers took images of themselves in […]

Paul Manafort is having a very rough time in prison, his lawyer claims. The former chair of Donald Trump’s campaign, in prison after being convicted on a number of tax fraud charges, is suffering from depression and anxiety as well as a severe and painful case of gout, Manafort’s lawyers said in new court filings. As the New York Post […]

Airport sources said there was a “comedy of errors” as paramedics were forced to crawl onto the Air New Zealand plane, which had been diverted to Cairns, Australia, on a flight from Hong Kong. The Cairns Post reports Auckland-bound flight ANZ80 made an emergency landing at Cairns International Airport at about 2.30am on Monday after a male passenger died mid-flight. […]