House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy a “moron” after being asked by a reporter about his criticism of the Capitol physician’s mask mandate in the House, another sign of the souring relationship between the two House ...
“Washington is deeply concerned about repeated steps back on the path to Georgia’s democratic future,” the US Embassy in Georgia said in a statement. “The United States is deeply disturbed and exasperated by the unilateral decision of the Georgia...
International cruises will be able to start again from England from 2 August after a 16-month break. People arriving at UK ports who have been fully vaccinated in the US and the EU will also not have to quarantine, the UK government said. It is p...
Google workers will need to be vaccinated before returning to the office, the US tech giant has said. The policy will begin at its US campuses within weeks and then be rolled out globally for its 144,000 employees. Many firms are weighing up thei...
Dusty Hill, the bassist of US blues rock band ZZ Top, has died at the age of 72. Bandmates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard said that Hill died in his sleep at his home in Houston, Texas. They did not give further details. Earlier in July, ZZ Top had ...
Bosnian Serbs have reacted furiously to a ban on genocide denial imposed by the international official overseeing Bosnia’s 1995 peace deal. UN-appointed High Representative Valentin Inzko said the ban was needed to stop glorification of war criminal...
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva will discuss by phone Ukraine’s implementation of the structural beacons needed to receive the next tranche. The President made this statement...
Police in Paris are searching for a man who stole more than €2m (£1.7m; $2.36m) worth of jewellery and precious stones from an upmarket jeweller. The man, thought to be in his 50s or 60s, arrived at and left the Chaumet boutique on a stand-up scoote...
People who are fully vaccinated from the EU and US will be able to avoid quarantine when arriving in England, the BBC has been told. Currently, people who have been fully vaccinated in the UK do not need to isolate when travelling from countries on ...
A federal court has ordered that a rare ancient artefact, known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, must be surrendered to authorities. The 3,500-year-old tablet, from what is now Iraq, bears text from the Epic of Gilgamesh – one of the world’s oldest wo...
