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Pope Francis is due to meet Muslim and Christian leaders in Istanbul on the second day of his three-day highly symbolic visit to Turkey.

A manhunt is under way for a patient who absconded from a psychiatric hospital in south-east London after assaulting two members of staff.

A man wearing a werewolf mask shot a worker at a check-cashing business in Southern California and fled, sparking a massive hunt, authorities said.

British researchers develop 15-minute test for virus, as French leader visits former colony at centre of outbreak.

The devastating attack on the Grand Mosque in Kano, Nigeria was almost certainly the work of Boko Haram. Why are they attacking Muslims at prayer?

Two months of US-led air strikes have failed to weaken Islamic State militants, Syria's foreign minister says, urging Turkey to tighten border controls.

Yang Maodong forced into lengthy hearing without food as Beijing government broadens its crackdown on dissent A leading Chinese rights activist who organised rallies for media freedom pleaded not guilty to charges of dis...

Despite scientific warnings, rare optimism going into next round of UN climate talks in Lima

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Racially motivated attacks have increased at a time when open borders in the European Union have led waves of illegal and legal migrants to Britain and Ireland.

Thirty-five Venezuelan inmates are reported to have died after overdosing on the contents of a prison infirmary they stormed.

Since 2009, West Africa, chiefly Nigeria, has been terrorized by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The extremist movement recently pledged allegiance to the brutal Islamic State group that has seized large areas in...

Mike Wooldridge returns to Ethiopia 30 years after the famine and sees much change but fears some lessons have gone unlearned.

Demonstrators want constitution changed to impose presidential term limits that would bar president from running again.

A federal judge in Connecticut has rejected the arguments of a home invasion killer on death row who complained that the food he is being served in prison is not kosher.

Republican Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed a politically charged bill that would have banned the use of certain pig cages in his state.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 – U.S. President Barack Obama and his teenage daughters, Sasha and Malia, went to an independent book store in Washington to buy books as a way to promote Small Business...

Killing of young iguana hunter underscores lack of accountability for private security forces

A man shot a woman and then himself inside a Nordstrom store in Chicago on Friday night, officials said.

Taiwan is holding its biggest local elections, widely seen as a referendum on the China policy of the governing party.

Her pot-bellied pet will be welcome on this airplane -- when pigs fly! A woman was booted from a US Airways flight in Connecticut because her pet pig was pacing...

In the predawn hours of Thanksgiving Day, a group of men was carrying three tons of marijuana off a boat along the Central California coast.