Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe office of the former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad issued a statement on his behalf. It says that Assad stayed in Damascus…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne in four babies born in NHS hospitals in England last year were delivered by Caesarean section, data shows. Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesA married couple,  a 27-year-old Gambian woman and a 35-year-old Nigerian man, has been sentenced to life in prison and fined Dh500,000…

Reading Time: < 1 minute  Twelve people have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in what appeared to be an accident at a ski station in Georgia,…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJapan’s biggest bank apologized Monday for the alleged theft by an employee of more than 1 billion yen ($6.6 million) from customers’…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSeven foreign tourists have been taken to hospital after drinking cocktails at a five-star resort in Fiji, authorities have said.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Syrian military defector codenamed Caesar, who smuggled out more than 53,000 haunting images showing tortured, emaciated corpses of Syrian detainees –…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEmergency workers raced on Monday to restore basic services to the French overseas territory of Mayotte, where hundreds or even thousands are…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToppled dictator Bashar al-Assad airlifted around £200 million in cash to Moscow in a two-year period when Syria was dependent on Russia for support.  Read…