Orangutan

Canadian police are investigating an apparent act of vandalism after a cord carrying cable cars was severed, sending all 30 of them crashing to the ground. The company said the Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish, north of Vancouver, was not operating at the time…

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) said it was considering possible sanctions for two athletes who demonstrated against injustice during the national anthem at the Pan American Games over the weekend. Gwen Berry, a US hammer thrower w…

More than a million people have been evacuated from their homes and at least 18 people have been killed as Typhoon Lekima struck China. Another fourteen people were also missing after a landslide was triggered by the storm. Well tell you whats true. You can…

The decision by Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing League, to withdraw his confidence in the coalition government his party makes up with the Five Star Movement and demand immediate elections, has abruptly ended Italys brief experiment in populist coali…

Prince Andrew was accused of groping a young womans breast at the home of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, according to newly released legal documents. The allegation surfaced in a cache of legal papers unsealed by a US judge in a defamation case involving…

The Hindu-supremacist government of India, headed by Narendra Modi, has just carried out a coup of Indias constitution and with Kashmirs autonomy. Jammu and Kashmir has been put in its place: stripped not only of its nominal autonomy but even of its status as…

Italys far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini has called for new elections after he declared that the current government coalition had fallen apart. I will run for prime minister, Mr Salvini told supporters in the central Italian city of Pescara on Thurs…

The already over congested Jakarta, as seen in its traffic above may no longer be Indonesia’s capital. (AFP pic) JAKARTA: A national forest on the island of Borneo has emerged as the frontrunner to be the location of Indonesias new capital as the government …

The oldest fossil forest in Asia which existed between 359m and 419m years ago, has been discovered by scientists.  Dating back to the Devonian period, a geological era known as the age of fishes, it was found in the walls of clay quarries in China, near the…

A British man drowned in an Austrian lake after suffering from cramp in his foot, police said. The 33-year-old was in the water at the Schwarzindien beach area in Mondsee on Wednesday when he complained of the pain and went below the surface. State police o…