The United States has expressed its concern about a judgment from the European Commission ordering the technology giant, Apple, to pay up to 14.5 billion dollars in back taxes. The White House says such a unilateral approach threatened to undermine p...
Researchers in the British city of Nottingham say the cloned siblings of Dolly the sheep are in good health raising hopes that the process doesn't effect physical wellbeing. The four cloned sisters have just passed their ninth birthdays. Dolly who ha...
The Brazilian senators voted overwhelmingly to dismiss President Dilma Rousseff at the end of her impeachment trial. Senators found her guilty of illegally tampering with the budget two years ago to hide a growing deficit. They voted down a proposal...
Hundreds of thousands of people in Venezuela have marched through the streets of the capital, Caracas, in rival demonstrations. One group was calling for the removal of president Nicolas Maduro, blaming him for Venezuela's deep economic crisis. Mr Ma...
Following days of rumors, Uzbekistan has announced the death of its president, Islam Karimov aged at 78. 经过数日的传闻之后，乌兹别克斯坦宣布总统卡立莫夫(Islam Karimov)去世，享年78岁。 He was previously said to be criti...
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to have suffered a political setback in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Exit polls from regional elections indicate the anti-immigrant AFD party has beaten Ms Merkel's Christian Dem...
The annual G20 meeting of the worlds major economies has closed in China with agreement to fight protectionism and to try to pump fresh life into the world economy. President Xi Jinping said that the first time the summit had put the issue of develop...
The World Health Organization has revised its guidance to people who have visited parts of the world affected by the Zika virus. It says men and women returning from these areas should practice safer sex or abstinence for six months. The virus is pri...
Donald Trump says he would expand all areas of America's military if he becomes US president in November. The Republican called for more soldiers, planes, ships and marines. He's also promising he will quickly devise a plan to destroy the Islamic Sta...
Thanks to the revelations about the Russian state's involvement in covering up doping, the Olympics in Rio will be watched more closely than ever. Our Brazil correspondent reports. Earlier this year, dozens of Russian wrestlers were exposed as drugs...
