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It's difficult to watch, but this is the devastating reality of bird smuggling. On Monday, 24 critically endangered yellow-crested cockatoos were stuffed into 1.5-liter plastic bottles and packed into travel...

Forget buttoned up stereotypes, Germans are nakedly ahead when it comes to stripping off.

Canada's lawmakers back a new Anti-Terror Act, dramatically expanding the powers of the country's spy agency.

When the governor told the Texas State Guard to watch the military exercise, it raised a question: To what degree has extreme become mainstream in the state?

Last week the Texas House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill that requires police officers to obtain a warrant before probing the anuses and vaginas of motorists during traffic stops. The fact that the bill w...

Police hand out letters in a Norfolk village asking photographers not to harass the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Ticketed for putting Snowden bust on NYC war monument, activists say it stirred discussion

"Oh, and I want to come in on a swan boat."

Does UK viral video show echo of Baltimore debate?

Pamela Geller responds to ISIS threats on 'Hannity'

Oscar Holderer, believed to be the last member of the post-WW2 German team whose rocket took US astronauts to the Moon, dies at 95.

UN climate chief says technological advances have changed politics since Copenhagen failure

Britain heads for another hung parliament as voting starts for the 2015 general election. Follow all the day's news with the Guardian politics team Read our essential morning briefing Your complete guide to results night...

On Tuesday night, Art Spiegelman hosted a table at the PEN gala, after other authors dropped out in protest of an award being given to French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Here, he speaks to TIME about the award and ...

A former veteran Chicago police officer was sentenced to a year in prison Wednesday in a scheme to extort tow truck drivers in return for steering business their way.

The Latest on severe weather: No injuries in Kansas tornadoes; some homes, hog barn damaged

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Four Islamic State leaders are now listed on the U.S. Department of State's Rewards for Justice list, which offers a collective $20 million in rewards for information that leads to the arrests of the men. #Isis i most wa...

President Bill Clinton concedes that over-incarceration in U.S. stems in part from his policies, including the controversial "three strikes means life" rule. He tells CNN: "We had too many people in prison."

Yemen urges the UN to authorise the use of foreign ground forces to drive back Houthi rebels, as fighting intensifies in the city of Aden.

Tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and Nebraska.

Pierre Nkurunziza asks people 'to put their trust' in his ruling party as protests grip the country and thousands flee to neighbouring Rwanda Burundi's president Pierre Nkurunziza will run for a controversial third term...