KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s King Muhammad V abdicated on Sunday, the palace said, after two years on the throne, the first time a monarch has stepped down before completing their five-year tenure. The king’s resignation took effect immediately, the National Palace said in a statement. No reason was given and palace officials did not respond to requests for comment. […]

AMMAN (Reuters) – The main Turkish-backed rebel army has deployed along frontlines close to jihadists in northwest Syria to repel any new militant advance after an offensive that expanded their control over the country’s last rebel-held bastion, rebels and residents said. Islamist Tahrir al Sham, formerly affiliated to al Qaeda, on Sunday entered the town of Atareb, days after capturing […]

A twice-convicted murderer who declared he wanted to die and who Nevada officials said tried several times to kill himself after two scheduled lethal injections were postponed has been found dead from an apparent hanging, officials said Saturday. Scott Raymond Dozier, 48, was found unresponsive in his solo death-row cell at the state’s maximum-security prison in Ely, Department of Corrections […]

Britain is to be lashed by icy 75mph gales from next week with weather warnings in place as bitter cold snap sends temperatures plunging below freezing A yellow weather warning issued from 12pm on Monday until 3pm on Tuesday and will cover parts of Scotland  Gusts of wind will join heavy rain and go through Scotland and Northern Ireland before […]

A paratrooper ready to drop into Normandy, the hero crew of the Memphis Belle and troops making TOAST: WWII is brought to life in a series of colourised images The black and white photographs were colourised by design engineer Paul Reynolds, 48, from Birmingham One extraordinary picture shows U.S. troops toasting bread over molten lava at Mount Vesuvius in Naples Another photo […]

On Thursday, June 5, 1975, whilst a student of history at Edinburgh University, I was one of the 17,378,581 enlightened souls who voted yes to sustain the United Kingdom's continued membership of the Common Market and of the European Communities (the precursor of today's European Union). Four decades later , on another Thursday, June 23, 2016, the people of the […]

Deliveroo and Uber Eats riders ‘are renting their jobs to illegal immigrants in a black market that allows them to work without record checks’ Couriers from both firms are advertising their jobs in private Facebook groups  A whistle-blower has claimed that ‘illegal immigrants’ are renting accounts This means illegal immigrants could be working in the UK without right to do […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – The Taliban will not attend planned peace talks with the United States in Saudi Arabia this month, and want to shift the venue to Qatar, Taliban officials said on Sunday, seeking to fend off Riyadh’s push to include the Afghan government in talks. The upcoming negotiations, the fourth in a series aimed at ending the 17-year […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran and Russia are preparing to hold joint naval exercises in the Caspian Sea, including rescue and anti-piracy drills, the commander of the Iranian navy was quoted on Sunday as saying. “Tactical, rescue and anti-piracy war games between Iranian and Russian naval forces are being planned and will be implemented in the near future,” the semi-official news […]