British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Thursday that a so-called hard Brexit should not hold any "terrors" and Britain would do "very well" operating under World Trade Organisation rules after leaving the EU.
President Donald Trump agreed on Thursday to a historic first meeting with Kim Jong Un in a stunning development in America's high-stakes nuclear standoff with North Korea.
US President Donald Trump slapped steep trade tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum on Thursday, drawing sharp protests from allies at home and abroad as the contentious move raised the specter of a global trade war.
Eleven nations signed a slimmed-down version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement on Thursday, moving to lower tariffs just as US President Donald Trump raised them after withdrawing from the deal.
Japan's economy is growing at a faster clip than initially estimated, the government said on Thursday, as the world's third-biggest economy notched up its longest period of expansion since the "bubble" days of the 1980s.
The UN labour agency warned on Wednesday that gradual progress toward parity between the sexes in the workplace was expected to soon grind to a halt and could even reverse.
Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is now the world's richest person, having snatched the top spot from Microsoft founder Bill Gates who slips to second place, according to Forbes magazine's annual billionaires list published on Tuesday.
Sierra Leone holds a general election on Wednesday to pick a new president in a climate of voter frustration with the two parties that have ruled since independence.
White House economic advisor Gary Cohn became the latest casualty of President Donald Trump's tumultuous administration,resigning in protest on Tuesday as Trump stepped up his threats of steep tariffs on steel, aluminum and European cars.
The Thai government is confident that it can maintain peace and safety of both local and foreign tourists during the popular water festival this April.
New Zealand has sweltered through its hottest summer on record and can expect more of the same if climate change continues unabated, the government's scientific agency said yesterday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un discussed a possible summit with envoys from the South's President Moon Jae-in, both sides said on Tuesday, in the latest step of an Olympics-driven rapprochement on the divided peninsula.
US President Donald Trump claimed on Monday he was "ready to make a deal" protecting hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, as lawmakers missed an initial deadline for resolving their fate.
Italy's ruling centre-left Democratic Party on Monday admitted it had suffered a "clear defeat" in a general election after coming in third according to projections.
France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived in Tehran early on Monday for talks on the 2015 nuclear deal and Iran's role in the Syrian conflict.
South African supermarkets began a mass recall Sunday of meat products made at a facility that health officials say was the source of a listeriosis outbreak that has killed 180 since January 2017.
Silvio Berlusconi has tipped European Parliament President Antonio Tajani as his choice for Italian premier after leading his rightwing coalition in a public display of unity just days ahead of a general election.
In self-exile in Belgium and wanted in Spain, Catalonia’s deposed leader Carles Puigdemont has abandoned his bid to return as regional president in an attempt to unblock the region’s political crisis.
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