A teacher who was 'unfairly' imprisoned and forced to leave China after living there for four years has launched a campaign to be reunited with his wife who still remains in the country. Martin O'Brien, from Renfrewshire, Scotland, revealed how he was held in solitary confinement in a bare jail …...Read More

A family has issued an urgent plea for bone marrow donors to come forward in the hope of finding a match for their severely unwell baby boy. Ten-month-old Reign Miller-Hardy, from Barry, Wales, was diagnosed with a genetic disease known as hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), which causes the immune system to …...Read More

Britain's biggest lender has taken issue with predictions from the Bank of England that the economy may recover to pre-coronavirus levels by the end of 2021. HSBC has slashed its own expectations for the UK's recovery, putting it at loggerheads with the Bank of England's chief economist Andy Haldane. On …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday suspended or terminated three bilateral agreements with Hong Kong related to extradition and tax exemptions, the latest in a series of measures that escalate tensions between Washington and Beijing. The move comes after President Trump signed an executive order last month ending the …...Read More

The BlackBerry smartphone is coming back from the dead, as a startup is set to revive the popular device early next year. Texas-based OnwardMobility acquired the license for the handset from its original maker and announced the release of a 5G model in 2021. The revived BlackBerry is said to …...Read More

Being a ‘morning person’ could be linked to the development of Alzheimer’s. Scientists have discovered that a higher risk of the disease was significantly associated with going to bed and waking up early. The team from Imperial College London studied over half a million individuals and analysed their genetic information …...Read More

The Senate Intelligence Committee, after its own three-year investigation that maintained a broader counterintelligence focus, built on those findings this week with a bipartisan report laying out an extensive web of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and Russian officials. Among them, it said Konstantin V. Kilimnik, with whom the onetime …...Read More

Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Kamala Harris sought to appeal to Black, Latino and Asian-American voters on Wednesday, taking a swing through three virtual caucus meetings held during a socially distant Democratic convention. In pre-recorded remarks to the D.N.C.’s Hispanic Caucus, Mr. Biden echoed several speakers in asserting that Latinos …...Read More

Aaron Coleman admitted that he harassed girls online when he was in middle school. He called one sixth-grade girl fat and told her she should kill herself. Seven years ago, he told another girl, who was 13 at the time, that he would circulate a naked photo of her if …...Read More

The Trump campaign kicked off its convention response with a flashy ad buy placed at the top of YouTube’s home page for a 96-hour stretch, seeking to bracket the virtual Democratic National Convention on the most popular video platform on the internet. It also bought a lot of eyes. Since …...Read More