‘The whole party must be prepared to make ever more difficult and harder efforts… to achieve great dreams there must be a great struggle’   Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to usher in a “new era” that will be proudly Chinese, amid “complex changes” at home and abroad. Speaking ...

  ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found the remains of an ancient temple belonging the greatest, most celebrated and powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire.   ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Egypt have discovered the remains of an ancient temple belonging to King Ramses II — often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful ...

  Responsibility for the need to withdrawal will be debated by Iraqi Kurds for decades to come, but the blame game has already started   The Kurds may have lost 40 per cent of the territory they previously controlled over the last two days as they withdraw from areas long disputed with ...

THE discovery of life on Mars is edging closer to reality after scientists found that extremely hardy bacteria could thrive in the Red Planet’s tough environment.     Experts ran experiments which mimicked the conditions on Mars and found a type of salt in the soil – magnesium perchlorate – ...

THE German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel voiced his concern about a potential war with Iran if President Donald Trump decides to withdraw the UK from the Iran nuclear deal.   Last week President Trump called Iran a “fanatical regime” and refused to sign off a landmark international nuclear deal. The ...

MADRID — The independence-minded Catalonia region tried again Monday to dodge the question of whether it has declared a formal break with Spain, calling instead for talks and listing its grievances against Madrid’s leaders. The lack of clarity elicited a terse and frustrated response from Spain’s justice minister. “Not valid,” ...

  Donald Trump has repeatedly hinted that military action would be the only solution     North Korea has said they are not interested in diplomatic solutions to its tensions with the US until it develops a missile capable of reaching the east coast of America. A North Korean official ...

  Only two Adélie penguin chicks out of a colony of 40,000 in Antarctica survived what researchers are calling a “catastrophic breeding event.” For the second time in four years, the Adélie penguins of Antarctica have suffered a devastating blow to their population. French researchers found the two surviving chicks ...

        North Korea has issued its latest threat against Australia for its relationship with the US and South Korea, but a Turnbull government minister said the nation would “not be cowed” by the rogue state. North Korean state media reported Australia was “showing dangerous moves of zealously ...

Forces started moving at midnight on Sunday towards oil fields and an air base amid rising tensions after Kurds vote for independence     Iraqi forces have reportedly advanced on Kirkuk’s oil fields and air base after the prime minister of Iraq, Haidar al-Abadi, ordered his army to “impose security” ...