December2017

A career best seven for 34 by Trent Boult destroyed the West Indies as New Zealand wrapped up their one-day international series with a game to spare in Christchurch on Saturday. Boult had three for six...

The Miss America pageant suspended its CEO on Friday after dozens of former beauty queens demanded he step down over leaked internal emails that contained misogynistic, fat- and slut-shaming language. The decision was announced in the...

Barcelona took a huge step towards regaining the La Liga title as goals from Luis Suarez, Lionel Messi and Aleix Vidal beat bitter rivals Real Madrid 3-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday to open up...

The U.N. Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday for its recent intercontinental ballistic missile test, seeking to limit its access to refined petroleum products and crude oil and its earnings from...

Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc will pay $125 million to resolve claims that it made misrepresentations while selling mortgage-backed securities to two large California pension funds, the state’s attorney general has announced. The settlement announced...

Ipay is the first online payment platform in Bangladesh. People will be able to exchange money with other iPay members and make payments for their purchases, utilities and other services in a cashless form through ipay....

A cyclist has “drawn” an 88-mile (141km) virtual snowman across London. Anthony Hoyte, from Cheltenham, spent 10 hours cycling the streets of the city, using the exercise and route sharing app Strava to “draw” the giant...

The government is considering a “pay-per-mile” scheme for lorries to cover the cost of damage to UK roads. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling confirmed the current HGV levy, used to pay for wear and tear on the...

There was celebration among French foodies after a wild truffle was discovered on a Paris rooftop. The discovery, at the base of a hornbeam tree in a hotel roof garden near the Eiffel Tower, is thought...

London Zoo is shut “until further notice” after a fire which injured staff and killed an aardvark. At its height, more than 70 firefighters tackled the fire which started in the Animal Adventure section and spread...