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About 400 mourners packed a chapel in Mississippi on Saturday to say goodbye to a 19-year-old woman who was burned alive.

You might be surprised to figure out how easy it is to willfully make yourself unlovable

Composer Debbie Wiseman and her band perform some of the Wolf Hall score on The Andrew Marr Show.

A Newbury man was going for a walk with his dog on Plum Island Beach Saturday when he stumbled upon the unexpected -- a human leg.

Will the slow removal of international troops in Afghanistan enable the Taliban to regain control of the country?

Marches take place across Colombia to protest against a possible amnesty for Farc rebels in peace negotiations aimed at ending five decades of conflict.

More than 25,000 people marched through Manhattan on Saturday, police officials said, in the largest protest in the city since a grand jury declined to indict an officer in the death of an unarmed black man on Staten Isl...

Auburn freshman football player Jakell Lenard Mitchell was shot and killed Sunday morning at an apartment complex near the Auburn University campus, police and news reports said.

Japan's snap election Sunday is seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic reform policies, but the outcome could be more a rejection of the opposition than a vote of confidence in his policies. Abe cal...

A UKIP election candidate makes an "unreserved apology" after he was recorded referring to "poofters" and "shooting peasants" in phone calls.

Sudanese president accuses court of trying to humiliate his country as prosecutor criticises UN security council The Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, has hailed the international criminal court's suspension of its inv...

The studio suffers its latest embarrassment as the plot of Spectre is detailed online following a massive cyber-attack.

Talks to slow down global warming run into overtime amid frustration about the level of financial commitment from rich nations.

At least three dead and three injured as kindergarten collapses in north of the country, official news agency reports.

China to punish Chinese tourists who threw hot water on attendant on Thai flight

The Civil Aviation Authority warned air traffic control body NATS four months ago its plans for dealing with technical faults were unclear, a report says.

One person killed as security forces fire tear gas at protesters trying to storm the presidential palace.

Several hundred people marched through a small North Carolina town on Saturday to call for a fresh investigation into the August hanging death of a black teenager that was ruled a suicide by local authorities.

Ziad Abu Ein died shortly after an altercation with Israeli security forces during olive-tree planting in the West Bank.

The Afghan Taliban killed a Supreme Court official, a dozen mine clearers and several national and foreign soldiers but also suffered heavy losses from intensifying violence ahead of the withdrawal...

Bolivia's security forces are registering their overweight members after President Evo Morales complained too many were unfit.

A Pentecostal minister picked up a Kalashnikov rifle to volunteer with the Ukrainian Army, routinely holding court at campfires at his post and cooking for his unit.