Doctors have hailed a "new era" of medicine after a study showed for the first time that a drug can slow the debilitating symptoms of Alzheimer's.

Crowds in a major Chinese city have clashed with white hazmat-suited riot police, footage on social media shows, as the biggest anti-government protests in decades continue over stringent zero-COVID policies.

Just Stop Oil demonstrators are considering slashing famous works of art as they threaten to "escalate" their protests.

Royal Mail workers, university lecturers and sixth-form college staff will walk out over pay disputes today as strikes continue across the country.

The former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, who came to power after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has died aged 96, state media has said.

South Korea said it has scrambled fighter jets after detecting two Chinese and six Russian warplanes in its air defence zone.

Landmark legislation to protect same-sex marriages has passed the US Senate in a significant show of bipartisan co-operation.

A man has been charged with murder after a father was stabbed to death on a bridge in London.

China's military advances could "eventually lead to a clash" and the UK has been "asleep" to the threat it poses for the last 30 years, an influential Tory MP has warned.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have reached a settlement in their divorce, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles.