"The nominating body for the Oscars is to be radically shaken up following an outcry over the all-white shortlist for this year’s awards", informs The Times.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the development of the Advanced Research Fund on January 19.

A 28-year-old female employee of a karaoke beach shop in Thepha district was killed and six others (eight other version) injured when two home-made bombs exploded last night.

Moroccan police arrested a Belgian man of Moroccan descent linked to the Islamic State group and who had a "direct relationship" to attackers who carried out the Paris attacks just over two months ago, the Interior Ministry of Morocco said.

Five French Foreign Legionnaires have been killed and six injured in an avalanche during a training exercise in the Alps, officials say.

WhatsApp is getting free. The messenger introduced the fees a few years ago, forcing new users to pay an annual 99 cents subscription after the first year.Today in a company blog it is said: "As we've grown, we've found that this approach hasn't worked well".

As the iconic 62^nd London Boat Show drew to a close yesterday (Sunday 17 January), 90,328 people had been welcomed to ExCeL London to experience the very best that the boating industry has to offer.

The price of Brent crude oil falls below $28 a barrel for the first time since December 1, 2003.

ISIS extremists have kidnapped about 400 civilians during a massacre in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday (January 16).

Russia has failed to adapt to economic and technological change and has fallen into the ranks of "downshifter" countries that will catastrophically lag behind their more advanced rivals, the chief executive officer of Russia's top lender Sberbank German Gref said on January 15 at the Gaidar Forum in Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on January 15.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today confirmed cases of severe malnutrition among children in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, where “emotionally distressed and mentally drained” doctors are working around the clock to save lives with very limited resources and local relief workers have reported 32 people have starved to death in the past month, UN News Centre reports on January 15.