The US government has filed a new lawsuit against TikTok, accusing the social media company of unlawfully collecting children’s data and failing to respond when parents tried to delete their

The UK’s National Crime Agency has shut down an online platform that it says was used by criminals to steal money from thousands of people around the world. The Russian

A $4 billion (£3.1 billion) settlement has been announced for claims from more than two thousand people seeking compensation over last year’s deadly wildfires on Maui, Hawaii’s governor has said.

Stock markets were hit by a global sell-off on Friday as weak US jobs growth stoked fears of a sudden downturn in the world’s largest economy. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index

Police officers faced “serious and sustained levels of violence” after disorder broke out in Sunderland on Friday night. Northumbria Police said three of its officers were injured during the unrest

Two Russian dissidents released in a prisoner swap on Thursday have said they refused to sign a petition for mercy to be sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin as requested

US Vice-President Kamala Harris has passed the threshold to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination in a vote of party delegates. Speaking by telephone, Ms Harris said she was “honoured to

It’s something Vladimir Putin does rarely: go to the airport to meet people off a plane. Personally. But he was there last night: on the tarmac at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport

Mystery surrounds an American woman who was found chained to a tree “screaming” in a forest in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Lalita Kayi, 50, was discovered a week

The United States will deploy additional warships and fighter jets to the Middle East to help defend Israel from possible attacks by Iran and its proxies, the Pentagon said. Tensions