Britain's general election campaign, which ended yesterday night, has turned the spotlight on the closed world of the ultra-rich. The main opposition…

Six people including a police officer and two suspects were killed during an hours-long shootout on Tuesday across a New York suburb not far from the Statue of Liberty, local officials said. "Our officers were under fire for hours," Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly told reporters after…

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was chosen as Time magazine's 2019 Person of the Year, the magazine announced Wednesday. The 16-year-old has found herself in the role of spokesperson for a generation haunted by climate emergency since her solo strike against global warming outside…

Fears of another eruption at the New Zealand volcano believed to have killed 15 people made it too dangerous for emergency teams to recover bodies, police said yesterday, as doctors fought to save survivors who suffered horrific burns. The official death toll after Monday's explosion on White Island…