Senator John McCain has said he cannot support his fellow Republicans’ latest effort to repeal Obamacare, dealing it a potentially fatal blow. The Arizona senator, who is battling brain cancer, said he “cannot in good conscience” vote for the new plan, which President Donald Trump backs. Mr McCain said it…
A monument to a Russian creator of the world famous AK-47 assault rifle unveiled in Moscow is to be changed because a weapon depicted on the statue is actually a German-designed firearm. Mikhail Kalashnikov’s monument was opened this week to great fanfare by government officials and members of the Russian…
An internal investigation has been opened into Health Secretary Tom Price over his private plane travel on official government business. A spokesman for the agency’s inspector general told the BBC “we take this matter very seriously”. The probe follows a demand from Democrats. Mr Price’s spokesperson has defended his use…
Saudi Arabia’s education minister has apologised for the production of a school textbook in which the Star Wars character Yoda is seen superimposed on a photograph of the late King Faisal. Ahmed al-Issa said a committee was looking into the “unintended mistake”. The image, which shows the diminutive Jedi Master…
Protesters shouting “no justice, no peace” have disrupted a speech by former FBI director James Comey to university students in Washington DC. Mr Comey was giving a convocation address at Howard University, a leading historically black college. It took some 13 minutes before Mr Comey, fired in May as head…
A university professor and his elderly mother have become social media stars in China. Some 9,000 Sino Weibo users commented in response to an article in Beijing Youth Daily highlighting that Prof Hu Ming in south-west Guizhou province has been bringing his elderly mother, who has Alzheimer’s, to his classes….