The government's being urged to set up an independent inquiry into allegations of abuse in Hong Kong's prisons, as more former inmates come forward to make complaints. Local media outlet HK01 has published anonymous interviews with 50 ex-prisoners who ...

The Israeli government says it plans to ban journalists from the Al Jazeera network and close the broadcaster's office in Jerusalem. The country's communications minister, Ayoub Kara, accused Al Jazeera of supporting terrorism and inciting violence aga...

A Hong Kong trainee pilot has died in a crash in Australia. The accident happened in Melbourne on Thursday. Nicholas Cheung, who's said to be about 20 years old, was trapped in the light plane after the crash. He was said to have suffered facial, chest...

The former owner of a pet fish store has been slapped with a suspended jail sentence for abusing a fish. A video of the defendant, Hui Kwok-yu, repeatedly slamming a plastic bag containing the fish hard onto the ground was uploaded to the internet earl...

A British man credited with stopping a huge cyber-attack in May which affected computers in more than 150 countries has been arrested in the United States. Marcus Hutchins is facing unrelated charges involving banking malware. In the WannaCry attack, h...

The government has shunned calls for a public consultation over its express rail link co-location plan, which critics say violates the Basic Law. Justice Secretary Rimsky Yuen stressed that officials will listen to public views carefully - which he say...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says she hopes to establish a civil service academy in Hong Kong to provide much-needed training for government staff. She made the suggestion after visiting the Civil Service College in Singapore. Lam said Hong Kong needs to...

President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill imposing sanctions on Russia for its alleged meddling in last November's US Presidential election and its actions in Ukraine. But he wasn't happy. After signing the bill, he issued statements saying the...