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Shave off a few years -- and a few pounds -- and I could easily be James Blake. Which is why his arrest this week outside Manhattan's Grand Hyatt hotel...

Marches in Europe and Australia come as UN official says one million more Syrians could be displaced by end of the year.

A 24-year-old mother is in custody Saturday after her two young children were found barefoot, dirty and living in a wooden shipping crate in an underground cave on the eastern edge of Kansas City, Missouri.

Emergency measures also include sending extra police to Bavaria and allowing entry to Germany only with a valid passport, say reports Germany is to reintroduce border controls and will exit temporarily from the Schengen ...

Nine dead after PKK bombing of police checkpoint sparks helicopter and shelling raids in Sirnak province.

Amid the fray and all the bodies pressed against the razor wire along the Greece-Macedonia border, fingers dig into my arm.

Islam's annual hajj pilgrimage will continue despite a crane collapse that killed 107 people at Mecca's Grand Mosque -- an accident being blamed on high winds during heavy rain. Crowds...

Sir Elton says the Russian President's attitude to gay people is "isolating and prejudiced" and "ridiculous".

28, half children, drown off Greece when boat capsizes in high wind; Hungary sees record flow

The tech company handling the private email server Hillary Clinton used as secretary of state has "no knowledge of the server being wiped," a Platte River Networks spokesman told The Washington Post on Saturday. The Demo...

Witnesses report police entering mosque part of the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif site, firing rubber bullets and injuring worshippers Clashes have broken out between Palestinians and Israeli police in Jerusalem's Old Cit...

Hungary calls the Austrian Chancellor's allusion to the Holocaust "slanderous" as protesters criticise the government in Budapest.

Four firefighters were injured Saturday as wildfires spread across California and forced evacuations, officials said.

Who are Uighurs? A look at repressed Chinese minority seen as having motive in Bangkok bombing

Authorities identify special needs student found dead on school bus; investigation launched

Iran has reportedly found an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium, following assessments that the country is running low on the nuclear raw material and just days after President Obama essentially secured an internationa...

Hundreds of people rushed to escape a massive wildfire charging across the tinder-dry Sierra Nevada foothills and another fast-moving blaze that broke out in Northern California Saturday, sending four firefighters to the...

A former prison warden who has witnessed 32 executions defends the use of the death penalty and the way it is implemented.

More confusion as police initially call Abu Dustar Abdulrahman a Uighur but later withdraw the ethnic description and state only that he is Chinese Thai police have issued a photograph of Ishan, a suspect in the Bangkok ...

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Four days of talks wrap up to help prepare for president Xi Jinping's visit later this month including a 'frank and open exchange' about thorny cyber issues Senior US and Chinese officials have met to discuss cybersecuri...

When Dean Karnazes ran 135 miles nonstop across Death Valley during the height of summer, the heat was so intense it "caused the epithelia in my mouth and throat to slough off, like a reptile shedding its skin."