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The fantasy of "Colossal," Nacho Vigalondo's new genre mashup, starring Anne Hathaway, does two things well at the same time: it embodies a strong idea and it delivers aesthetic pleasure. At its best, it achieves a rare ...

"Aftermath" is a plane crash movie without a plane crash. Instead, the closest we get is a scene set in the control tower, where a computer screen shows two triangles headed straight toward one another until both glow re...

The adaptation of Jessie Burton's period thriller stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Romola Garai.

The United States launched nearly five dozen cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield early Friday in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians, the first direct assault on the Damascus government...

Before he was president, Donald Trump wrote that the U.S. should not bomb Syria in a number of tweets from 2013 to 2014. As the White House ordered strikes on Syria late Thursday, several of those old tweets were recircu...

The Grand National takes place at Aintree on Saturday afternoon with 40 horses confirmed on the race starting card. Here the Guardian's Chris Cook takes a look at some of the runners and riders he thinks may be in the mi...

SEATTLE -- A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of sexually molesting a teenage high-school dropout in the 1980s, and in interviews with The Seattle Times, two other men claim he abused them. The mayo...

Editor's note: Christopher Gergen and Stephen Martin are both affiliated with Greensboro's Center for Creative Leadership. A major decision last month by the U.S. Supreme Court requires public schools to …

Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway announced an investigation Friday into potential conflicts of interest related to state officials' placement on the board of a company that provides technology that allows truckers …

Anya Taylor-Joy, Romola Garai and Alex Hassell have been set to star in BBC One and Masterpiece's period thriller The Miniaturist, based on the best-selling novel by Jessie Burton. They'll be joined in the three-part ser...

At least three people have been killed and several injured after a truck crashed into a department store in central Stockholm, The Associated Press reports. The Swedish broadcaster SVT additionally reports that shots wer...

BERLIN -- Behind a metal gate in Berlin, in a small courtyard nestled between a residential building and a car park, stands a piece of American history. The Detroit home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks has been painstaki...

A general is among the four Syrian soldiers that were reportedly killed during a U.S. missile strike against the al-Shayrat airfield near Homs, Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group says the str...

A new batch of CIA documents published by WikiLeaks on Friday includes 27 manuals detailing a malware installer framework codenamed "Grasshopper." This software allows the spy agency to get around computer security measu...

Thousands of women sporting their best outfits flock to Aintree for the "much-loved" event.

The Russian Defense Ministry has released aerial footage of the damaged Shayrat air base in Syria after it was pounded by US cruise missiles. Russia said only 23 of the 59 missiles fired from US warships hit their mark, ...

WASHINGTON -- Booming online retail sales are good news for the U.S. Postal Service, but its carriers are incurring a cost: more dog bites. Dog attacks on postal workers rose last year to 6,755, up 206 from the previous ...

Two years ago, Obama threatened attacking Assad's forces for previous chemical attacks, but Trump disagreed.

Maldives police have arrested a leader of opposition political party on a charge of plotting to overthrow the government. A joint opposition statement said Jumhooree Party leader and lawmaker Qasim …

JOHANNESBURG - Supporters of legal rhino horn trade in South Africa say the country’s top court has ruled in their favor, rejecting a government appeal to preserve a 2009 ban on the domestic trade. Rhino breeder John H...

The United States fired cruise missiles into central Syria early Friday morning, striking an Assad government-controlled air base where U.S. officials say the Syrian military launched a deadly chemical attack that killed...

Chemical weapons have killed hundreds of people since the start of the conflict