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Pope Francis departed Rome on Saturday for a trip to the Holy Land with a rabbi and a Muslim cleric from his home country of Argentina.

Consider it the taxonomist's equivalent of a People magazine's Most Beautiful List.

Japan has launched a satellite that will be used to map the earth's natural resources and monitor natural disasters.

Army junta summons nearly 200 people including Shinawatra family and orders them not to leave the country Thailand's army is holding the former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra in a safe place, an aide said on Saturday...

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KIEV/KARLOVKA, Ukraine

Two Essex police officers who were filmed blasting a rap song from their patrol car in Chelmsford are given "words of advice" by a senior officer.

Authorities in China say they have arrested a suspect over Thursday's attack in the city of Urumqi that killed 39 people.

Could Israel's horrific killings of two Palestinian youths during a demonstration a week ago become a diplomatic incident? The State Department continues to demand an investigation of the killings, though expressing resp...

DENVER/NEW YORK

NI21's European election candidate Tina McKenzie is quitting politics, as recriminations continue over the party's public falling-out.

The remains of a backpacker found in Nepal, whose mother travelled from her Luton home to help in the search, are confirmed as Matthew Allpress, missing since November.

A second day of counting in the local government elections is getting under way across Northern Ireland.

PM's office confirms acceptance of Indian invitation to attend swearing-in ceremony with other South Asian leaders.

Thailand's military continues to hold Yingluck Shinawatra, a source close to the former leader says, as dozens of prominent figures are ordered to report to the junta.

Her dad left when she was four, but it wasn't until many years later, when she saw a photo of a girl who looked just like her, that Susan Swingler began to unpick his web of deceit It was 1967, the summer of love, and I...

'You've got to cut his head off,' my wife says. I look at my hands for a long time. We've had Mr Rogers for eight years. For several days I manage to shirk my obligation to do something about our terminally ill snake, M...

The life raft in which it was hoped four missing sailors could have escaped has been found still secured to their capsized yacht, rescuers say.

LOS ANGELES

A deputy head teacher who was jailed for five years for filming pupils in the toilets of his school has been formally dismissed, Cardiff Council confirms.

Ed Miliband's hopes of winning next year's general election have been seriously undermined by the UKIP effect.

The judge overturned election officials' decision that would have denied the long-term Congressman from Detroit a spot on the election ballot after hearing arguments from the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan