Armed men have violently stormed the southern Brazilian city of Criciúma, mounting an assault on a bank. Shooting started about midnight local time (03:00 GMT) and lasted more than an...

Salesforce is buying workplace messaging app Slack for $27.7 billion, marking the largest acquisition in the San Francisco-based cloud-based company's history. Under the terms of the agreement, Slack (WORK) shareholders will receive $26.79...

Her career as a referee has been a single, meteoric rise without limits. Frenchwoman Stéphanie Frappart will become the first woman to officiate a Champions League game — it's just...

The jury of music journalists recognized excellent achievements where pandemic-season performances were possible but excoriated the industry as a whole. The Hanover State Opera is winner of this year's Oper! Award for...

Researchers at German universities have identified immature blood cells that could signal coagulation complications in patients with COVID-19. Potential severe cases could now be detected at an earlier stage. It...

The coronavirus pandemic has eroded business for hairdressers across Germany. Now, the Klier Hair Group says it will need to close shops and lay off workers if it is to...

Swedish police have arrested an elderly woman suspected of having kept her son confined to their flat in a Stockholm suburb for up to three decades. She denied false imprisonment...

China has successfully put another probe on the Moon. Its robotic Chang'e-5 mission touched down a short while ago with the aim of collecting samples of rock and dust to bring back...

Thousands of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia's conflict-hit northern region of Tigray have run out of food, the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, has said. It appealed for urgent access to the...

US Attorney General William Barr, a top ally of President Trump, has said the Justice Department has found no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. "To date, we have...