Image copyright Getty Images Republicans have unveiled details of a controversial tax plan, aimed at slashing rates for businesses and lowering inheritance taxes.The proposal would lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20%, while retaining the top individual rate for the wealthiest at 39.5%.But it eliminates a popular mortgage interest deduction for new home…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionCarles Puigdemont: Spain has a 'democratic deficit' Catalonia's sacked President Carles Puigdemont says he has not travelled to Belgium to seek asylum.He has appeared in public in Brussels with several colleagues after declaring independence from Spain last week.Spain's central government has taken direct control of Catalonia and…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionFacebook says hundreds of accounts backed by Russian trolls filled news feeds with inflammatory messages Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the past two years.The social networking site said about 80,000 posts were produced…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionBarcelona rally demonstrator: 'I feel forgotten by Catalan government' Hundreds of thousands are attending a rally for Spanish unity in Barcelona after Catalonia was stripped of its autonomy for declaring independence.Many of those protesting in the region's largest city chanted that sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont should…
The independence bid by Catalonia has seen a surge of flags being bought by people by way of showing their political views. So what are Spain's flags and what do they mean?
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe moment Catalan parliament declared independence The Catalan regional parliament has voted to declare independence from Spain, while the Spanish parliament has approved direct rule over the region.Catalan MPs backed the motion 70-10 in a ballot boycotted by the opposition.Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy had told senators…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionBarnaby Joyce: 'I was born just there' Australian Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce and four other politicians were wrongly elected because they held dual citizenship, a court has ruled.The High Court of Australia decision means three of the politicians, including Mr Joyce, are disqualified from office. The others…
Image copyright Getty Images Fats Domino, one of the most influential rock and roll performers of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 89.The American rock and roll artist was best known for his songs Ain't That A Shame and Blueberry Hill.The New Orleans singer sold more than 65 million records, outselling every 1950s rock…
US President Donald Trump has seized on reports that Hillary Clinton's team bankrolled a sleazy dossier of allegations linking him to Russia.Unfounded claims that Mr Trump had been filmed with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel surfaced in the closing stretch of last year's White House race.Mrs Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC)…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Myeshia Johnson wept on her husband's coffin at his funeral in Hollywood, Florida The widow of a dead US soldier says Donald Trump could not remember her husband's name when he phoned to offer condolences.Myeshia Johnson, widow of Sgt La David Johnson, told ABC News the president's "stumbling" had…
