When the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump proposed new subsidies for coal and nuclear plants, it seemed like an obvious way to deliver on...
Sit back and have a read of The Daily Star’s pick of today's five features from around the world worthy of your attention.
Former British prime minister Tony Blair told voters on Thursday that time was running out to reverse Brexit, a folly that he said would torpedo Britain's...
Hezbollah cooperated with some European countries over information related to terrorism, the party’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said Wednesday,...
The Trump administration would consider immigration legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young people, the U.S....
In late November, a group of economists, including me, published an open letter to U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin in the Wall Street Journal,...
A clutch of high-profile legal cases over responsibility for the effects of climate change will be fought out in courtrooms next year as claims stack up...
All major macroeconomic indicators – growth, unemployment and inflation – suggest that 2017 will be the American economy’s best year in a decade.
To hear Donald Trump talk, you'd think Barack Obama was the president who stole Christmas.
There's no mistaking President Donald Trump's "Merry Christmas" message - he wields it as a weapon against political correctness.
Ominous statements are often harbingers of tragedy, and no such remark is as recognized as that of Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone in “The Godfather” when he...
Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst...
The fate of nations often comes down to the choices made by a handful of individuals at a particular moment in history.
For decades Israeli politics has been riddled with corruption from top to bottom, with premiers, ministers, MPs and senior officers, as well as wives and...
Abdellatif Nasser got what he thought was the best news possible in the summer of 2016: One of his lawyers called him at the Guantanamo Bay detention center...
U.S. President Donald Trump directed NASA Monday to send Americans to the moon for the first time since 1972, in order to prepare for future trips to Mars.
Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell will be leaving the Trump administration early next year, the White House announced Friday, in the first of what...
Efforts to prosecute the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and four co-defendants are stalled in part over a lingering issue U.S. citizens...
Investors looking for the U.S. Republican tax bill to prompt multinational companies to convert foreign profits into dollars and end the worst slide in the...
The shifting explanations for why President Donald Trump fired national security adviser Michael Flynn have revived questions about whether the president may...