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Restaurants and takeaways in the UK will be required by law to tell customers if their food contains ingredients known to trigger allergies.

The Duchess of Cambridge appears to momentarily show her real feelings during her trip to New York as she is told off.

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Michel du Cille has died

Bank of America is being forced to hand over more than $1 million to a Florida couple after the bank flooded them with hundreds of loan collection calls for year.

A Chicago police officer has been disciplined after he admitted playing a song some consider racially offensive during a protest against police violence last weekend, the department announced in a statement Thursday.

A cat from Vladivostok sneaked into a display of fish at a shop in Vladivostok International Airport.

After retired teacher Bill Bricker was charged in the fall with sex crimes against children, his former employer, Winnetka District 36, released hundreds of pages of his personnel records, some indicating school official...

A specific law is being introduced to combat human trafficking and exploitation for the first time in Scotland.

A hospital A&E ward is closed after a suspected CS gas attack by a man who had been arrested by police.

TIME looks back over the past 12 months and presents a selection of underreported, astonishing and apparently-implausible animal images

The drones will be equipped with night-vision cameras

The U.N. goal of containing 100% of Ebola cases by Jan. 1 will not be met

Poland's defense minister, Tomasz Siemoniak, called out Russia for its "unprecedented" naval and air force presence in the Baltic Sea area this week. Siemoniak told reporters that although Russia was not preparing to att...

Carbon emissions cut by a record 12 million tonnes in Scotland last year thanks to the renewable electricity industry.

How extremists fund their fight through crime

Comedian and campaigner Russell Brand calls UKIP leader Nigel Farage a "pound shop Enoch Powell", during a Question Time debate on immigration.

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The party-line vote put on display an unusual alliance between some Democrats and Republicans on the role of Congress in deciding to go into battle.

Experts skeptical of NYPD plan

Sen. Dianne Feinstein oversaw the compilation of the 6,700 page report -- and has a license to fact-check