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Lamont Cathey was a promising Chicago basketball prospect, a dominating 6-8 center who had the potential to play at a Division II college until he was arrested and charged in the theft of money from a pizzeria safe more ...

US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter says the rout of Iraqi forces at Ramadi showed they lacked the will to fight against Islamic State.

Nearly every day Ryan LeVin pedals by the crash site where six years ago he ran down two British tourists in his Porsche. When he does, he has "personal conversations" with the two men he killed.

The world's first motorised cooler championships have been held in Port Douglas, Australia.

Renowned mathematician John Nash, subject of film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a New Jersey taxi crash with his wife, police say.

Official: Syrian army preparing for a counterattack against IS in the Palmyra area

The football star says he is "overwhelmed" at the support his family received following the tragic loss of the mother-of-three.

Massachusetts woman uses obituary to declare Tom Brady innocent in deflated footballs scandal

Amid all the Islamic State's atrocities -- its massacres of civilians, its beheading of hostages, its pillaging of antiquities -- the systematic violence the jihadists have carried out against countless enslaved women an...

Memorial Day is Monday, but there's more to the nationwide observance than just taking a three-day weekend and a day off from work. The holiday recognizes people who died serving in the United States military. The tradit...

The 35-year-old Britons get into difficulties while swimming in the Blue Lagoon off Comino island.

Dutch prime minister thanks Americans who gave their lives liberating the Netherlands

Police in Germany say they have recovered the bodies of six people killed in a fire at a guesthouse in the Alps.

A new reality show in the Czech Republic has let a family of seven experience what it was like living under Nazi occupation during World War II.

Speaking after his Palme d'Or win for the story of a former Tamil Tiger seeking a new life in France, Audiard echoes jury members in hoping the film will highlight plight of migrant workers Jacques Audiard has said he ho...

Andrzej Duda apparently has beaten the incumbent, Bronislaw Komorowski, and the party that has led during eight years of stability and prosperity.

It is the biggest honour a schoolgirl can earn. But does it lead to a lifetime of high achievement? Vanessa Thorpe tracks down five former head girls 30 years on, and discovers a familiar pattern emerging... I still have...

The Nepal earthquake is a big story for most journalists, but for me, it's my life… thrown upside down.

Judge insists UK courts no longer automatically defer to ECHR's rulings, while lawyers rail against Britain's potential repeal of the Human Rights Act Sir Brian Leveson, the judge most famous for his report into press et...

One way in which the U.S. government gets itself into major crusades of mass killing is by hearing what it wants to hear. It even goes to the extent of allowing top U.S. government officials, sometimes briefly out the re...

A police officer was found shot dead in his patrol car in New Orleans this morning.

The brilliant mathematician, who died in a car accident on Sunday, was best known for his struggle with mental illness.