Britain has agreed a deal with the EU on the issue of the Northern Ireland border that would effectively keep the province in the single market and customs union, EU chiefs have told members of the European Parliament. The Independent understands that a joint text on Northern Ireland drawn up by UK and EU officials…

Who’s afraid of Brexit? Not Facebook, or at least that’s what it seems.  The company is opening a new office in London which will become its biggest engineering hub outside the U.S. and will allow the creation of 800 new jobs in the UK capital.  More than 2,300 people will work for Facebook in the…

TOKYO (AP) — Kim. Nuclear. War. Nothing sums up the message embedded in North Korea’s propaganda better than those three words. That’s exactly what the world hears — and what’s revealed in this word cloud, a visual display of terms used by the Korean Central News Agency’s English-language service. The Associated Press boiled down 1,542…

The Gulf Cooperation Council is a political and economic alliance of six countries in the Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Established in 1981, the GCC promotes economic, security, cultural and social cooperation between the six states and holds a summit every year to discuss cooperation and regional…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mrs May will meet Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels later Theresa May is set to meet key EU figures for talks on Brexit which could determine whether the UK is able to move on to negotiations on trade. BBC Europe editor Katya Adler says deals were reached this weekend on the…